In this dashboard, we will analyze polygon block performance. some of the metrics that are considered are:

• the average time between blocks,
• Maximum and minimum recorded time between two blocks,
• The average number of transactions in a block

We will also compare these metrics to other blockchains like Flow, Solana, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Optimism.

Method

• The Block information of each blockchain was extracted from their core.fact_blocks tables.
• The time differences between blocks were only calculated for consecutive block numbers in all blockchains except for Solana.
• After all time differences between blocks were calculated, Min, Max, and the average of those time differences were extracted.
• The average of transactions per block and Max transactions in a block were extracted directly from core.fact_blocks tables.
• Average TPS (transactions per second) was calculated by dividing The average of transactions per block by the average of time differences between blocks.

• In the following table, we can see highest time difference records between blocks for consecutive block numbers:

• In the following table, we can see highest time difference records between blocks for all blocks in database:

• the highest time difference between two blocks in Polygon in data base is 254 seconds but there was a gap of 122 blocks. so for calculations we only consider consecutive numbers for blocks.

In this section, the metrics are compared to other blockchains:

• In the following table, all blocks in the database for each blockchain are included in the calculations. we can see that because of the gaps of blocks in the database some of the metrics like the max time between blocks have no logic value.

• In the following chart, we can see the daily average time between blocks that are calculated daily by the Minimum and maximum of the block number and timestamp. since the timestamp in the database doesn’t accurate as a millisecond, this way of calculation is more accurate. however, the difference is too small that can be ignored.
• The highest daily average time between blocks on polygon occurred on July 14th with the average of 2.4588 seconds time difference between blocks.

Summary

• The average time between blocks in Polygon is about 2.25 seconds.
• On average, about 75 transactions are recorded in each block of Polygon.
• Polygon and avalanche have a better condition than other reviewed blockchains in terms of changes in the time difference between blocks.
• After Solana, Max transactions per block belong to Polygon with 1332 transactions per block.