Polygon Block Performance
The Time Between Blocks
The following plots demonstrate the average, maximum and minimum amount of the time between blocks for all of the aforementioned platforms.
Average Time Between Blocks
- The time between block for Polygon on average is about 2.2 seconds.
- Solana, Near and Flow have 1-2 seconds between blocks on average.
- Arbirtum has the most average value about 50 seconds; Optimism and Ethereum have about 15 seconds on average between blocks.
Minimum Time Between Blocks
- The time between blocks for Polygon is at least 2 seconds.
- This number for Arbitrum, Ethereum, Flow and Solana is 1 second.
- Optimism has the highest value at least 15 seconds between blocks and Near has the lowest value about 1 milliseconds.
Maximum Time Between Blocks
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Maximum time between blocks can be as a result of special event on the network and can be considerably high, but it this value may have a low frequency.
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For example, Solana has about 2 hours between blocks, but this time may have happened just one time. To measure the frequency as well, we study the distribution of different times between blocks further in this study.
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Polygon has at most 25 seconds between blocks and has the lowest value among these platforms.
Transactions Count in a Block
Average Transactions Count in a Blocks
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Polygon has 75 transactions per block on average.
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Solana has a considerably high value about 1.7 thousands transactions per block.
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Optimism has 1 transaction in every block.
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Near, Flow and Arbitrum have less transactions per block compared with Polygon.
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Ethereum has 145 transactions per block. Ethereum and Solana have more transactions per block compared with Polygon.
Minimum number of transactions per block for all of the platforms is reported 1. Although, we have some blocks with zero transactions inside. But we ommitted them in this analysis.
Maximum number of transactions per block
- Polygon has at most 1332 transactions per block.
- Ethereum has 1431 transactions per block and is close to Polygon.
- Solana has the most number of transactions more than 7000.
- Arbitrum, Flow and Near has less values compared to Polygon. They have less than 1000 transactions per block.
- Optimism has a guarantee to keep a single transaction in a block.
Average Time Between Blocks Trend
The following plots aim to depict that how the time between blocks have changes during time.
Polygon seems to have an ascending trend and the average time between blocks in this platform is growing smoothly.
Arbitrum, Near and Solana, also have an ascending trend.
Flow and Optimism after experiencing a meaningful growth in time between blocks, have started a slight decrease.
Ethereum has an average about 14 seconds and it shows a reduction during last years.
Introduction
> 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?
In this analysis we aim to disscuss Polygon and compare it with the following blockchains in terms of block performance:
- Layer 1 blockchains including: Flow, Solana, Near and Ethereum
- Layer 2 blockchains including Arbitrum, Optimism
Average Transactions Count in a Block Trend
- Polygon after a slight decrease, stayed in about 75 transactions per block on average.
- Optimism aims to have a transaction per block.
- Arbitrum has a descending trend in number of transactions.
- Solana, Ethereum and Near are increasing the number of transaction in their blocks.
- ***Flow ***after a slight increase, stayed in about 14 transactions per block on average.