It really depends on the amount of free time the person has.

A person with a regular lifestyle that isn’t too busy checks their profile multiple times a day, especially in the first few weeks of joining a dating site.

A person who is very busy doesn’t check as much, a handful of times a week on average.

If you are trying to figure out where you should fall in, the healthiest way to go about this is to check your online dating profile at peak times.

Peak times are when most people are logged into their dating accounts and corresponding with each other.

They are checking their messages, responding to those that they like, sending interest signals or messages themselves.

These are the moments where you will have the best chance of getting someone to either send you a message, interest signal or respond to a message that you sent them.

If you are someone with a normal daily schedule that isn’t too hectic, you could easily fall into the trap of checking your online dating profile way too much during the course of your day.

You are naturally curious.

You just joined an online dating site and are curious as to who messages you or responds to a message that you sent.

Don’t allow this curiosity to get the best of you.

Doing so leads to incredible frustration.

What a lot of people don’t realize, especially when they first start online dating is that, it takes time to match with the right person for you.

Your first few weeks on a dating site can just as easily be filled with attention from other members sending you messages and interest signals as it can be filled with, well, nothing, a true lack of quality messages.

The early stages are just that, early.

You can easily have beginner’s luck which ultimately fizzles out anyway or be unable catch a message to save your life.

No matter how good or bad your first few weeks are in online dating, avoid getting too caught up in it.

The more you check your online dating profile at all hours of the day, the more stress you cause yourself.

Even if you are getting a whole lot of attention, a dose of reality hits you when you realize that conversations with all these prospects don’t seem to be going anywhere.

They send a message or two to you and they are done.

Don’t get caught up in all of this.

The healthiest way to go about online dating and avoid either getting yourself too unnecessarily excited about all the initial attention that you are getting or unnecessarily upset over the lack of attention, is to only check your online dating profile at peak hours.

Peak hours vary depending on the dating site or app you are on, but there are general peak hours on average that work best across most dating sites and apps.

If you are more of a morning person, check into your online dating profile between the hours of 8am and 10am.

These are the hours most people are actively using the site or app.

It is not too early or late, a time frame where most people are fully awake, but aren’t entirely immersed in work or responsibilities quite yet.

If you are more of an evening person, check into your online dating profile between the hours of 5pm and 9pm, with 9pm being the most active.

This evening time is within the time frame in which most people are either getting off work or are involved in after-work activities that give them the opportunity to take some time out to check their online dating profiles.

For best results, check into your online dating profile at both time frames in the morning and evening peak hours.

Using this strategy keeps you from the temptation of checking into your online dating profile at random hours during the course of your entire day which only leads to online dating fatigue on your part.

Stick to the peak hours and not only do you increase the chances of connecting with a lot more matches, but you also save yourself a lot of online dating exhaustion, which simply isn’t healthy for your psyche.