What is the time when Hivers post and vote/curate the most? Which days of the week? What hour of the day?
Let’s take a look at the latest data from June 2024.
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 five-week period, May 20 to June 23, 2024.
The time is in UTC. You can compare it with your local time zone here: https://time.is/UTC
Hours
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 13h to 17h UTC, with a peak somewhere around 15h. Overall, there is more posting in the 12h to 22h period, with a second peak around 21h.
Between 5 and 8, there is the lowest number of posts. The drop from the peak hour (22h) to the low hour (8).
On the voting/curating side there is a slightly different pattern. The peak is a bit earlier in 13h, continued with a high numbers up to 22h, after which it drops in the hours afterwards with a low in 7h.
There are some local peaks in 18h and again in 21h.
The data above is a sum of all the posts in the hours for the analyzed period.
Days of the Week
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 posts, while the weekend not as much with Sunday being the lowest. Although the drop in the number of posts is not that big. From 12.5k to 11k. Around 10%.
The voting shows a bit of a different pattern, with Saturday having the least voting activity, while Sunday is quite active, almost at the level as for the working days. The peak is in the beginning of the week, Monday and Tuesday having the highest numbers.
Maybe hivers want just to read and curate on Sunday.
Heatmap
Combing the days and hours and we get the heat map.
First the posts:
We can see that the start of the week between 12h and 21h is quite busy. This period seems to be divided into two waves, first with a peak around 15h, a slowdown in around 19h and again a second peak around 21h. Going towards the weekend the numbers get lower.
The quite hours are between 4h and 8h.
On a 2D surface chart the same data looks like this:
We can notice the height between 13 and 21, the dark blue. In the beginning of the week this area is wider and it’s narrowing down going at the end of the week. Also, the two peak waves are clearly seen here in 15h and another in 21h. The gray area is when the lowest numbers occur between 5h and 8h.
The votes heatmap** looks like this.
Again, voting seems more random than posting. 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 than Saturday. Between 4h and 8h is obviously quieter for voting as well.
On a 2D surface chart the voting data looks like this:
Two areas in general. The gray lows between 24h and 10, this is a wider range then posting, and a yellow area representing the period with higher number of votes between 12h and 23h. There are only a few peaks in blue, happening around 14h, but not every day and around 19h in the beginning of the week.
Put together the two charts look like this:
