This is a topic I come back to, since it is quite interesting for users. Las time it was covered was March 2022. Let’s take a look has something changed.
Data about when Hiver’s post and vote/curate.
Having in mind Hive is a global community posting and voting time can vary a lot. Different time zones etc. Can users optimize their posting time, so they get some more attention?
Here we will be running the data for posting and voting time in parallel, so users can compare them. We will be looking at the hours, and at the days of the week, and combine them for a heat map.
We will be analyzing a four-week period, November 14 to December 11, 2022.
First the hours. Let’s take a look what time of the day Hivers post and vote the most in the period.
Note again on the UTC time.
On the posting side we can see that there is a clear trend, where there is more posting between 14h to 17h UTC, with a peak somewhere around 15h. Overall there is more posting in the 12h to 22h period.
Between 4 and 8, there is the lowest number of posts. The drop from the peak hour (15h) with 6.6k post to the low hour (7), with 3.5k is 47%.
On the voting/curating side there is a similar pattern. Interesting there seems to be a peak at 22h that is not the case for posting.
For the off-peak hours there is slight sift and the voting decay earlier starting from 2h to 6h.
The data above is a sum of all the posts in these hours for the period analyzed.
Now that we have seen the hours data, lets take a look at the days of the week. What days of the week Hivers post and vote the most?
What days of the week Hivers post and vote the most?
A clear trend on the posts here. Monday and Tuesday are the days with the highest numbers of post, while the weekend not as much. Although the drop in the number of posts is not that big. From 12.5k to 11.5k. Less than 10%.
The voting shows a bit of a different pattern, with Sunday being the day with the highest numbers of votes. Saturday is on the low side. Maybe hivers want just to read and curate on Sunday. As for the posts, the difference in the numbers is not that big.
Combing the days and hours and we get the heat map.
First the posts:
We can see that the start of the week between 14h and 17h is quite busy. Overall, the 14h to 18h are having more posts, same as from the hours chart. The 5 to 8 period is quieter.
The votes heatmap** looks like this.
Again, vote seems more random than post. Some spikes happening randomly between hours and days. Although there is more activity in the period as for the posts, that is 13h to 22h. Again, Sunday looks busier for voting then Saturday. Between 2h and 7h is obviously quieter for voting as well.
Here are the two heat maps.
These are a bit smaller, but we can still do some comparison.
Posts have more consistent pattern than votes. Voting seems a bit more random, although we can still see that the general pattern applies here as well, with more activity in the 14h to 18h and lot less in the 2h to 7h.
Sunday being the day with the more difference, with more votes than posts.
This trends seems to be quite consistent for years.
All the best
