The short answer
SMH, 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026
11.0 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 11.0). Over the last twelve months SMH sent 1,408 notifications, pushing on 128 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 07:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-04-29, with 18 pushes.
The daily clock
All of SMH's pushes from the last twelve months, on Australia's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 07:00.
SMHpeak 07:0011.6% of SMH's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the timing guides.
The week
An average weekday carries 11.7 SMH pushes and a weekend day 9.3: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How SMH writes a push
| Habit | SMH | Australia median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 8 | 8 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 113 | 113 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 23.0% | 9.6% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Phrased as a question | 4.0% | 1.5% |
Aggregates over every SMH notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other Australia apps
Every Australia news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. SMH is highlighted.
Method
AO.news collects the push notifications of hundreds of news apps as they are delivered, and records each one the moment it lands. This page counts the 1,408 notifications SMH sent from 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026, stamped in Australia/Sydney local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach us. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.