Post Activity Report 17th July - 23rd July
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 @arcange It has been a few months since I last made this post but I will resume producing it and related posts on a weekly basis.
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:
- @arcange produces daily reports with really useful data.
Interactive tools
- https://steemworld.org/ by @steemchiller
- https://helloacm.com/tools/steemit/ by @justyy
- https://tool.steem.world/ by @segypark
- https://steemdb.com/ by @jesta
- http://steemreports.com/ by @steemreports
- https://eroche.shinyapps.io/SteemAnalytics/ by @eroche
You may also wish to check out the following tag
- #blockchainbi and the members of the @Steemitbc community, spearheaded by @paulag, 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.
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About steemdata.com: it seems like it is not working anymore.
Thanks Ill remove that from the list of resources, and add a few more that are up to date :)
What websites or tools can show me which accounts delegate to a given account and to which accounts does a given account delegate?
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I found this graph most interesting.
It somehow gave me an idea of how "mature" the platform is. Although I think this can still be analyzed a level deeper of what type of accounts these are.
From this graph, I consider these Steem's CORE accounts - 10k to 12k accounts.
It will be interesting to see how this moves over time. If you look back to march there was a different mix.
So, it is fair to say that the last wave of new accounts (January/February this year) are drifting off in their activity levels, faster than those older accounts which had stuck around up till now?
My take on retention is:
In March there was a large proportion of posters in the 0-3 month account duration range. This number has dropped significantly in absolute terms and also in comparison to the next bracket 3-6 months.
I will start running this report on a weekly basis again and we can see how this is tracking, anything shown here could just be a seasonal variation.
Price obviously has a massive affect on onboarding and unfortunately most that come in at the highs are unable to push through the lows. Most don't seem to even realise they came in at a high point and very few understood that SBD had broken a peg (or that it was meant to be pegged).
you should consider posting these stats report to Utopian :-)
the mean number of accounts posting per day in march was 21K and the mean number of posts was 37K. So we are looking at about 34% drop in active users since March. I must say, it does feel a lot more quiet than that.
It does seem more quiet, the thing I am finding is as new users join I am not following them as much as I used to so I see less of the content. I bet my follow count is heavily skewed back to when I joined.
I am going to make this report a bit more regular so I don't want to spam Utopian too much, I will check our if they mind. It is nice to be paid for your work :)
Same thought here. I think this can be considered for utopian upvote and I don't see it violating any guideline.
Cool, I will be doing a one analysing payouts, maybe tomorrow. I will give utopian a try.
13.9 K account and 25.5 K post, that is huge activity in one day. But only 13.9 K account is human and the rest is using for bot or bid bot. 🤔
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Thanks for analize and give us the record @eroche..
great post,,
The greatest falloff seems to be in the 9-12 month range. There should be a way to incentize participation after 9 mos. Market analysts (not me) should be able to figure out why people lose interest (get discouraged?)after 9 mos. Theyve already invested significant time, so this drop off is telling.
This timeframe coincides with the pump in price. Could be related.
That's true...