What hour leads come in
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A media buyer usually knows the daily spend and the cost per lead, but not what hour the lead arrives. Yet that is the number the rota hangs on.
Where the numbers come from
The cut below is the day-long distribution of leads that went through Yuboraman. The numbers are as of 14 April 2025 — we published them in our Telegram channel that same day; the number of leads through the platform has multiplied since then, but the shape across the day has not changed.
This is one market: Facebook and Instagram ads in Uzbekistan. A different country or a different audience gives a different curve. So read it as a reference point, not as a law.
The curve has two peaks: 912 leads at 13:00 in the middle of the day, and a higher one in the evening. The deepest dip is at night. Below is the full shape of the day — the numbers can also be opened as a table.
The numbers as a table
| Hour | Leads |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 710 |
| 01:00 | 403 |
| 02:00 | 194 |
| 03:00 | 148 |
| 04:00 | 97 |
| 05:00 | 135 |
| 06:00 | 231 |
| 07:00 | 339 |
| 08:00 | 476 |
| 09:00 | 573 |
| 10:00 | 629 |
| 11:00 | 649 |
| 12:00 | 723 |
| 13:00 | 912 |
| 14:00 | 858 |
| 15:00 | 749 |
| 16:00 | 766 |
| 17:00 | 831 |
| 18:00 | 800 |
| 19:00 | 916 |
| 20:00 | 1043 |
| 21:00 | 1130 |
| 22:00 | 987 |
| 23:00 | 770 |
The peak is in the evening
The three busiest hours run back to back, and they are in the evening:
- 21:00 — 1130 leads
- 20:00 — 1043 leads
- 22:00 — 987 leads
So it is not a third of the day but three hours of it that produce the largest share of leads. The reason is plain: a person gets home from work, picks up the phone after dinner and scrolls the feed exactly then. That is when the ad gets seen most and when the form gets filled in most.
The three quietest hours
The other end of the curve is at night:
- 04:00 — 97 leads
- 03:00 — 148 leads
- 02:00 — 194 leads
The gap is more than tenfold. A single hour at 21:00 brings more leads than eleven hours at 04:00. Ads do not stop entirely overnight — but the flow thins out so far that keeping a separate operator for the night hours stops making sense.
What this number changes
In many teams the operator finishes at 18:00. Look at the cut above: the three biggest hours start right after that. So the most expensive leads of the day land in a chat nobody is watching and go cold until morning.
There are two ways here and both are right. The first is to move the shift later, so there is someone to answer the moment the lead arrives. The second is not to drop the lead into the chat at night at all, but to hand it over in one batch in the morning, so the operator starts the day with an ordered list instead of scattered messages.
Which one fits you is decided by the product. Where the decision is made fast, a delay costs money; where the product is expensive and gets thought over, a morning call works just as well.
Seeing your own number
The average gives a reference point, but the decision has to come out of your own account. The “Details” section next to each integration shows the lead count for today, yesterday, the week, the month and the year, plus the last 25 leads in full.
Watch it for a week. If your peak also lands in the evening, it is worth fitting the rota to it. If your product sells in the morning, this cut is not about you — trust your own.
What this cut does not tell you
This is the number of leads, not the number of sales. Whether an evening lead costs less or more than a morning one, whether it turns into a sale more often — the distribution across the day does not show that.
To see the path to the sale you need a different number: how the lead status ended up in the CRM or in the CPA network. The Finance section lines up ad spend against lead counts and CPA payouts in one table — that is where a decision about timing gets checked.