This report provides a snapshot of posting activity on the Steem Blockchain for the past 7 days.
- How many accounts are active?
- Who is posting?
The last time I ran this report was back in March. The graph that stands out to me is the profile of the posters at different durations. Back in March there was roughly 4 times the people in the 3-6 month activity range compared to 6-9 months. There is about a 1:1 breakdown in this latest report. We do not have the same profile of new users!
Focusing on the numbers/frequency of posts (i.e. ignoring payouts) we can get a feel for who is posting as well as the level of account activity.
We separately analyse the frequency of posting activity by:
- Reputation of Author
- Steem Power
- Date of Joining
- Automated vs Manual Posts
This Automated/Manual categorisation is based on frequency of posting activity over the last 7 days
The data for this report is sourced from steemsql by 
Posts per Day (ex comments)
In the past 7 days there was a total of 179k posts from 38k unique accounts. That gives an average of 5 posts in the week for authors that were posting. The next graphs shows the breakdown of these figures on a daily basis.
- The mean number of Posts per day was 25.5k
- The mean number of Accounts posting per day was 13.9k
Daily counts give a high level overview but we can examine subdivisions or groups of authors to get further insights into who is posting.
The colour in the following graphs represent different cohorts of Steemit Accounts.
Reputation
It can take a while to build your reputation and the system is designed so that it is easy to lose it. You don't want to get downvotes from people with higher Rep!
The next few graphs examine how many posts per day are made by people of different Reputations.
Total
Breakdown
Steem Power
Steem is a stake weighted platform. If you have more stake your vote is worth more.
The next few graphs examine how many posts per day are made by people with different levels of Steem Power.
Total
Breakdown
Account Duration
The first accounts were created in April 2016. We are now over the 1m account mark. Absolute number is important but retention is also important.
- How many people who joined over the course of the last year are still posting?
- Who is creating the bulk of the daily content?
The next few graphs examine how many posts per day are made by people that have been on Steemit for different lengths of time.
Total
Breakdown
Automated Accounts
If there is one, what is the number of comments a day that we could use to identify automated accounts?
I would propose anything higher than 4 posts per day (on average) uses some sort of automation. This number may not be correct but it's a starting point for our analysis.
Automated accounts may post daily reports or in some cases may just be people spamming the system with low quality content or content copied from other sources. Not all automated posts are bad and some provide a useful function such as daily statistics, market analysis etc. Splitting out these automated accounts will be more relevant for comment activity however it's also worth tracking for posts.
The next few graphs examine the daily posts that are in some way automated.
Total
Breakdown
Related Content
You may be interested in comparing this to a similar report I ran from a few months ago.
If your looking for more daily statistics:
Interactive tools
- https://steemworld.org/ by
- https://helloacm.com/tools/steemit/ by
- https://tool.steem.world/ by
- https://steemdb.com/ by
- http://steemreports.com/ by
- https://eroche.shinyapps.io/SteemAnalytics/ by
You may also wish to check out the following tag
- #blockchainbi and the members of the @Steemitbc community, spearheaded by
, produce detailed analysis on all things related to Steemit.
What area of this report did you find most useful?
I would love any feedback to improve or clarify any of this analysis.
Edit: Two figures, the number of posts in the week and unique authors were updated after initial publication. No other figures or graphs has been changed.
Thank you for reading this. I write on Steemit about Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Travel.