The short answer
SMH, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
11 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 11.1). Over the last twelve months SMH sent 1,078 notifications, pushing on 97 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 07:0012.1% 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 12.0 SMH pushes and a weekend day 9.0: 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) | 112 | 112 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 23.7% | 11.8% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| Phrased as a question | 4.0% | 1.3% |
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.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  ABC News | 2,722 | 7.0 | 06:00 |
| 2 | SMH | 1,078 | 11 | 07:00 |
| 3 |  The Age | 425 | 2.0 | 07:00 |
Method
AO.news runs a fleet of phones with hundreds of news apps installed and every notification switched on; each push is recorded the moment it lands. This page counts the 1,078 notifications SMH sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 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 to our phones mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach our devices. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.