Stats on the Popularity of Post Tags
In this post, I will illustrate how the usage of tags attached to posts has changed over the period between 1st April and 30th May. The data I have analysed is the main tag i.e. the first tag attached to a post.
The table below is colour-coded such that the red indicates a decrease in popularity and green indicates an increase in popularity. The darker the colour, the more significant the change.
The table compares the position at 1st April with the position at 30th May. As the number of daily posts has increased significantly (by a factor of 3) the change reflects the change in the count of a tag as a percentage of the total number of tags on that day.
Another point to note is that I have only included tags that were used both at the start of the period and at the end of the period so new tags since that date have been excluded from this analysis.
Here is the table.
A number of interesting observations can be seen such as:
- The big decrease in art, humour and newslink (as a % of the total)
- The increase in the use of Bitcoin, news & KR
Hopefully, this will help you to position your posts in what is currently the most popular thread for a particular subject.
Thank you for reading.
Yes. Steemit community changed after altcoins rally. It is now having primary direction toward crypto and money. Good this or bad? Maybe it is one of the steps in evolution of community, today is one strong direction later will be much broader.
Very good information. I think the ideal would be to have a post with both a popular and a less popular tag. The popular tag will give it exposure to a lot of people, but probably not much lasting power as it will quickly get drowned in other posts. Less popular tags will give lasting power as the post will stay in the first 10 new entries much longer.
Thank you @bitgeek for this very valuable information and for putting the time into creating the detailed chart. What is the category "KR" used for?
That's a good question. Some users put there name as a tag so maybe it's a user.
Oh very interesting. Thanks for your reply.
I looked up the category it looks like it might stand for Korea.
Thank you for this useful information. Very interesting.
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Thanks a lot for sharing! The increase in Bitcoin is probably because of the Fork or the crash.
Thank you @bitgeek Now we know where to post to make some dollars !! :)
Very interesting post @bitgeek!
Looks like German and Korean language posts are big risers, but Spanish is falling out of popularity.
There is one missing! #aromatherapy
Keep an eye out for it - soo to be very very popular! 😀🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
thank you very informative especially for new users ....I always have trouble trying to figure which tags would give my posts the best coverage this helps!