Intro

What is the average time between blocks on Polygon?

What was the maximum and minimum recorded time between two blocks? How many transactions are done in a block on average? How do these numbers compare to L1 such as Flow or Solana, or other L2 such as Arbitrum or Optimism?

Block Definition

A block is a place in a blockchain where information is stored and encrypted. Blocks are identified by long numbers that include encrypted transaction information from previous blocks and new transaction information. Blocks and the information within them must be verified by a network before new blocks can be created.

Let’s take a look into the times taken in seconds for a block to be included in the Polygon and other chains.

Daily Average Block Time Chart shows the historical average time taken in seconds for a block to be included in the blockchains.

Comparing Flow, Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon shows highest average helds by Polygon with avg time of 2 seconds.

This means Polygon is slow compared to other above chains.

Also our Pie charts shows that more than 97% of time that taken for a block to be included in the Polygon is between 0 to 5 seconds and

2.19% of times it takes between 6 to 10 seconds for a block to be included.

Minimum Seconds Between Blocks to be included in Polygon blockchain is: 2 seconds

Average Seconds Between Blocks is: 2.24 seconds

Maximum Seconds Between Blocks is: 25 seconds

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• Minimum, Maximum and Average number of transactions that have done in a block on Polygon are indicate on above tables.

• So far maximum number was 1,332 transactions while minimum number was 0 and average number of transactions is around 74.

Two bar chart on both sides compares the average and maximum number of transactions in a block on L1 and L2 chains.

• Maximum number of transactions that happened on these blockchains by highest number is 7,597 for Solana and 1,332 for Polygon.
• Average number of transactions is like the maximum graph where Solana has 1,745 transactions with polygon by 74 as highest amount between all chains.

Conclusion

1. Average time taken in seconds for a block to be included in the Polygon is 2.24 seconds which is higher than other chains like

   Solana ,Flow, Arbitrum and Optimism. These all have average time below 2 seconds.

2. Maximum and average number of transactions that have done in a block on Polygon is better than Flow, Arbitrum and Optimism chains but it’s not bigger than Solana blockchain.

Above graphs shows the daily minimum and maximum block time that taken in seconds for a block to be included in the above blockchains.

Maximum time between blocks held by Arbitrum followed by another Layer 2 chain, Optimism as it can be seen on graph.

Polygon has a better condition compared to other L2 chains and even better than a Layer 1 blockchain like as Flow.

Maximum time between blocks on Polygon is around 10 seconds and for Solana were even under 10 seconds.