What is a best time to post to increase payouts? What is a best time to post to increase upvotes and comments? When are other authors most active?

Disclaimer

The data and visualization in this post may contain errors and inaccuracies. Don't make important decisions without verifying data yourself. If you have any suggestions or found an error in the data, please get in touch with me on steemit.chat.

The "best" time to post

• 7:00-10:00 PST -8h
• 10:00-13:00 EST -5h
• 15:00-18:00 UTC/GMT
• 23:00-2:00 CST +8h

The "worst" time to post

• 23:00-2:00 PST -8h
• 2:00-5:00 EST -5h
• 7:00-10:00 UTC/GMT
• 15:00-18:00 CST +8h

Why the quotes?

These timeranges would be best and worst only if followers/upvoters/readers are similar to the random sample of all STEEM accounts. As that is most certainly not the case, treat this data as only one of factors used to determine posting time. For example, you probably should not change an enjoyable daily writing routine to conform to it.

How to read

• X axis: UTC/GMT time zone hour of day
• Y axis: activity in percents

Steem Power holders activity by hour

• All events from the report are between 2016-10-31 and 2016-11-14
• Events are not separated into the weekdays/weekends groups
• If STEEM account performs one or more actions(post, comment, vote, follow, reblog) during one minute, it is considered active during that minute.
• All active minutes are grouped by the hour part of the timestamp, active account vesting_shares (also known as STEEM Power) are multiplied by the number of active minutes for that account and hour part and then summed up for all accounts.
• The value for each hour is then converted to the percentage of average values for all hours.
• SQL queries are not that easily explained in English

Steem users activity by hour

• All events from the report are between 2016-10-31 and 2016-11-14
• Events are not separated into the weekdays/weekends groups
• If STEEM account performs one or more actions(post, comment, vote, follow, reblog) during one minute, it is considered active during that minute.
• All active minutes of users are grouped by the hour part of the timestamp.
• The value for each hour is then converted to the percentage of average values for all hours.

Steem posting activity by hour

• All events from the report happened between 2016-10-31 and 2016-11-14
• Events are not separated into the weekdays/weekends groups
• Number of posts (not comments) grouped by tge hour part of the timestamp.
• The value for each hour is then converted to the percentage of average values for all hours.