December and January seen some awesome numbers in terms of both the pricing of STEEM and the number of new users that joined the platform but now it’s time to look at some stats around posts.
Every month I prepare an analysis of STEEMIT Posts (I exclude comments). The aim of this is to aid the community with a place in which they can benchmark their posts and to create an analysis that can be used for further comparisons at later stages. Personally I use this report to benchmark my own posts each month and track my progress on Steemit.
If you missed the December Report you can find it here
This month I have made some additions to the report. You will now find Same Period Last year comparisons for financial performance and also the top earning Authors for the reporting period.
Financial Performance
December Report
Jan 17 Report
January 18 Report
In Jan 18 the % of posts with no payout was 11%, this can be compared to 18.54% in December and 38% in Jan 17. Really good to see that less posts had no payout in Jan 18. The % of posts with a payout value of <=$1 is 64.17% in Jan up from 56.77% in December and 30% in Jan 17
The number of posts that earned over $500 increased from 3 in Jan 17 83 in December to 220 in January 18
The Average payout value for a post in January was $3.81, if we exclude the posts with no payout this value increases to $4.28 SBD. In December these values were $3.75 and $4.60. In Jan 17 these values were $4.73 and $7.65
The increase in the number of posts from Jan 17 to Jan 18 is a whopping 3560% and the total payout value has increased by 2847%
My Stats
50% of my posts had a payout of $50 or more, this is really awesome. I do however expect a change in Feb as I will be doing less data posts and trying a few other things.
Top Authors based on Payouts
Top Category based on Payouts
Comments
December Report
January Report
The % of posts that received no comments is down from 47% in Dec to 44.6% in Jan 18, this seem to be offset with the % of posts that received between 1 and 10 comments. The number of posts that received 1000+ comments also went up in Jan to 7 from 3 in December
My Stats
Again I am happy with my own stats. 90% of my posts received 11 or more comments. 90 % of my posts were in the top 13% of posts made in terms of the number of comments.
Votes
December Report
January Report
The % of posts with 0 net votes reduced from 10% in Dec to 6% in Jan and the % of posts with 2-10 votes increased from 48% to 57%.
For a number of months in a row we have now seen an increase in the number of posts with net downvotes and there are more posts in Jan with net down votes then there are posts with between 101-500 votes.
My Stats
Wow, so happy to see 86% of my posts receiving 51+ votes and I do not use voting bots.
Other Data
The line chart above represents the number of new posts per day in Jan 18 and the bar chart below that shows the peak posting hours.
Conclusion
Jan 18 has shown tremendous growth since Jan 17 and also growth since Dec 18. The data would also suggest that there has been improvements in curation as there is a lower % of post with no comments. Without further analysis this is hard to prove as bots could be at play here.
So how did your posts do in Jan? Please do comment below and let us know
The Datasource and Query
As always I have connected to Steemsql managed by 
for 2018 data was
SELECT
author,
category,
created,
children,
total_payout_value,
net_votes,
pending_payout_value
FROM
Comments (NOLOCK)
where created >= CONVERT(DATE,'2018-01-01')
and created< CONVERT(DATE,'2018-02-01')
and depth = 0
And 2017 query was
SELECT
author,
category,
created,
children,
total_payout_value,
net_votes,
pending_payout_value
FROM
Comments (NOLOCK)
where created >= CONVERT(DATE,'2017-01-01')
and created< CONVERT(DATE,'2017-02-01')
and depth = 0
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