[FaxUp](https://faxup.net/) ยท Data # Fax Delivery Statistics: What 1,666 Faxes Show **88.4% of faxes sent through FaxUp were delivered** (1,473 of 1,666, February 20, 2024 to November 10, 2026), with a median of 3.2 minutes from send to confirmation. Below: page counts, retries, destinations and the hours people fax, from our own records. Last updated: November 12, 2026 ## Key numbers | Measure | Value | | --- | --- | | Faxes with a final status | 1,666 | | Delivered | 1,473 (88.4%) | | Failed after all retries | 193 (11.6%) | | Document pages sent | 6,645 | | Pages per fax | median 2, average 4.0, longest 112 | | Send to delivered (median) | 3.2 minutes | | Problem faxes rescued by a retry | 153 of 288 (53%) | | Sent Monday to Friday | 89% | ## How long a fax takes Time from pressing send to the carrier's "delivered" report, for the 1,428 delivered faxes that have that report in the log. It includes waiting in the queue, dialling, the pages themselves and any retries. | Faxes | Fastest 25% | Median | 75% | 90% | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | All delivered (1,428) | 1.5 min | 3.2 min | 8.9 min | 27.2 min | | Delivered on the first try (1,275) | 1.4 min | 2.7 min | 6.3 min | 13.2 min | So a fax still showing "Sending" after 15 minutes is usually waiting for a retry, not lost. FaxUp retries up to 5 more times over close to four hours (see [why faxes fail](https://faxup.net/fax-failed)). ## Retries rescue about half of the problem faxes 1,564 faxes have a carrier status log. 288 of them ran into a busy line, no answer or a failed attempt at least once, and 153 of those (53%) were still delivered on a later attempt. Busy lines recover best: 36 of 51 (71%). The reasons behind the failures that stayed failed are broken down in [Fax not going through?](https://faxup.net/fax-failed) ## Pages per fax, and how length affects delivery Most faxes are short: 44% are a single page and 73% are three pages or fewer. Page counts are document pages; a cover page is not included. 11 faxes have no page count recorded and are left out of this table. | Length | Faxes | Share | Delivered | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 page | 729 | 43.8% | 87.0% | | 2 to 3 pages | 482 | 28.9% | 91.1% | | 4 to 5 pages | 150 | 9.0% | 92.7% | | 6 to 10 pages | 180 | 10.8% | 90.6% | | 11 to 20 pages | 76 | 4.6% | 88.2% | | 21 pages or more | 38 | 2.3% | 78.9% | Delivery is lowest for the longest faxes (79% for 21 pages or more): a longer call has more chances to drop. Single pages also do slightly worse than 2 to 10 pages; many one-page faxes are first tries to a number that turns out not to be a fax line. If a long document keeps failing, splitting it into two faxes helps. ## Cover pages 44% of faxes had a cover page. Faxes with one were delivered 93.3% of the time, against 84.7% without. That is a correlation, not proof that a cover page helps the call: people who add a cover are often faxing an office they have the right number for. A cover still helps the recipient route the pages; make one with the [cover sheet maker](https://faxup.net/fax-cover-sheet). ## Where the faxes went Nearly every fax in this period went to a +1 number, because FaxUp opened [international faxing](https://faxup.net/international-fax) on faxup.net only in November 2026. Grouped by North American area code: | Destination | Faxes | Share | Delivered | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | US geographic numbers | 1008 | 60.5% | 89.1% | | US and Canada toll-free numbers (800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, 833) | 477 | 28.6% | 93.3% | | Canadian numbers | 152 | 9.1% | 84.9% | | Not a valid number (wrong length) | 28 | 1.7% | 0.0% | Toll-free fax numbers, typically companies and agencies, were the most reliable at 93.3%. All 28 numbers with the wrong number of digits failed, which is why faxup.net now checks the length of a number before it sends. The one fax outside North America went to Australia and was delivered. ## When people fax Faxing is office work: 89% of faxes went out Monday to Friday, and 55% between 10 am and 5 pm US Eastern time. The busiest hour was 2 pm to 3 pm. | Day (US Eastern) | Faxes | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Monday | 293 | 17.6% | | Tuesday | 301 | 18.1% | | Wednesday | 311 | 18.7% | | Thursday | 317 | 19.0% | | Friday | 269 | 16.1% | | Saturday | 92 | 5.5% | | Sunday | 83 | 5.0% | | Hour (US Eastern) | Faxes | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | 12 am to 1 am | 22 | 1.3% | | 1 am to 2 am | 23 | 1.4% | | 2 am to 3 am | 27 | 1.6% | | 3 am to 4 am | 26 | 1.6% | | 4 am to 5 am | 24 | 1.4% | | 5 am to 6 am | 24 | 1.4% | | 6 am to 7 am | 32 | 1.9% | | 7 am to 8 am | 31 | 1.9% | | 8 am to 9 am | 58 | 3.5% | | 9 am to 10 am | 72 | 4.3% | | 10 am to 11 am | 106 | 6.4% | | 11 am to 12 pm | 144 | 8.6% | | 12 pm to 1 pm | 118 | 7.1% | | 1 pm to 2 pm | 137 | 8.2% | | 2 pm to 3 pm | 149 | 8.9% | | 3 pm to 4 pm | 129 | 7.7% | | 4 pm to 5 pm | 128 | 7.7% | | 5 pm to 6 pm | 98 | 5.9% | | 6 pm to 7 pm | 94 | 5.6% | | 7 pm to 8 pm | 73 | 4.4% | | 8 pm to 9 pm | 40 | 2.4% | | 9 pm to 10 pm | 43 | 2.6% | | 10 pm to 11 pm | 35 | 2.1% | | 11 pm to 12 am | 33 | 2.0% | ## Method - **Which faxes:** every fax sent through FaxUp (faxup.net and the iPhone and Android apps) created between February 20, 2024 and November 10, 2026 (UTC) that reached a final status, delivered or failed. Drafts and faxes still sending are excluded. - **Delivered** means the carrier reported that the receiving fax machine confirmed every page (the T.30 confirmation), not that a person read it. **Failed** means every automatic retry failed. - **Pages** are the document pages FaxUp counted when preparing the fax; an optional cover page is not included. - **Minutes to delivery**run from the moment the fax was created to the first "delivered" report in the carrier log. - **Retries:** a fax counts as having hit a problem when its carrier log shows a busy, no-answer or failed attempt. - **Destinations**are grouped by the area code of the number (the first 3 digits after +1), using NANPA's lists of toll-free and Canadian codes. - **Hours and weekdays** are converted from UTC to US Eastern time, with daylight saving time. - **Privacy:** only counts left the database. No fax number, name, document or account is published. - **Limits:**this is one service's traffic, mostly US numbers, and includes some of our own test faxes. It describes FaxUp, not faxing everywhere. ## Questions ### What share of faxes get delivered? In FaxUp's records, 88.4%: 1,473 of 1,666 faxes that reached a final status between February 20, 2024 and November 10, 2026 were confirmed delivered by the receiving machine. ### How long does a fax take to arrive? Half of FaxUp's delivered faxes were confirmed within 3.2 minutes of pressing send, and 90% within 27.2 minutes. Faxes that needed retries account for the slow tail; on the first try, 90% took 13.2 minutes or less. ### Do retries help when a fax fails? Yes. Of the 288 faxes that hit a busy line, no answer or a failed attempt, 153 (53%) were delivered on a later automatic attempt. For busy lines alone it was 36 of 51 (71%). ### How many pages is a typical fax? The median FaxUp fax has 2 document pages and the average is 4.0. 44% are a single page; the longest was 112 pages. ### Can I use these numbers? Yes. Quote them with a link to this page (faxup.net/fax-statistics) and the date range. The CSV of every aggregate is linked on the page. ## Sources - [FaxUp database, read-only aggregates of the faxes, fax\_pages and fax\_logs tables, run November 12, 2026](https://faxup.net/data/faxup-fax-delivery-2026-11.csv) - [ITU-T Recommendation T.30: procedures for document facsimile transmission](https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-T.30) - [North American Numbering Plan Administrator: toll-free and Canadian area codes](https://www.nationalnanpa.com/area_codes/index.html) Download every number on this page as CSV: [faxup-fax-delivery-2026-11.csv](https://faxup.net/data/faxup-fax-delivery-2026-11.csv) (CC BY 4.0, credit "FaxUp, faxup.net/fax-statistics"). Something wrong or out of date? 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