Tasks

• 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?

Methodology

Our information is based on the last 30 days for a more comprehensive comparison of L2s.

• Show Polygon’s block information.
  • Total information
  • Daily information
  • Block count distribution
• Compared to other L1 chains including Ethereum, Solana, Flow, and Osmosis.
• Compared to other L2 chains including Arbitrum, and Optimism.

Polygon Block Information - Last 30 days

Total Information

Daily Information

Compare to others L1 chains

The graph above shows the daily max, average, and min time between blocks.

• The minimum time between blocks is two, which makes the average time around 2 seconds.

The chart above shows block count percentage distribution based on the time between blocks.

• More than 88% of all blocks have equal to 2 seconds from the previous block which is the minimum time between blocks.
• Even though the maximum time is 25 seconds, only around 2% of the block have more than 5 seconds.

Block count distribution

The graph above shows the daily max, average, and min number of transactions per block.

• The minimum transactions per block have been zero for the last 30 days, while the maximum swing from the 0.6k to 12.5k range.

The chart above shows block count percentage distribution based on the number of transactions per block

• 70% of all blocks have equal or less than 75 transactions per block, around the average of transactions per block.

The daily block count based on the number of transactions per block is depicted in the graph above

• The largest portion of transactions per block is equal to or below 75 transactions block.

The scatter on the left depicts the correlation between time and transaction types.

• Most blocks are on the tx <= 75 and 2sec < time section, while the runner-up is tx <= 150 with the same time between blocks.

The daily block count based on the time between blocks is depicted in the graph above.

• The largest portion of time between blocks is 2 seconds blocks.

The graph on the left compares Polygon to the other L1 chains on different measures.

• Polygon is mediocre in all measures except the minimum time between blocks which is the highest time.
• Worth to note that Solana has high block performance including the highest block count, the lowest all of time measures, and the highest transactions count in all measures.

The graph above shows the daily average time between blocks of Polygon compared to other L1 chains including Ethereum, Solana, Flow, and Osmosis.

• The rank of time between blocks is still the same for the past 30 days ordering from the fastest to slowest as Solana, Flow, Polygon, Osmosis, and Ethereum.
• All chains show a stable average time between blocks.

The graph above shows Polygon's daily average transactions per block compared to other L1 chains including Ethereum, Solana, Flow, and Osmosis.

• All chains show a stable average number of transactions per block except for Osmosis which the average number has increased and overcome Polygon since last week.
• Solana has 20x, and 30x higher average transactions per block than Ethereum (runner-up) and Polygon respectively.

Compare to other L2 chains

The graph on the left compares Polygon to the other L2 chains on different measures.

• Even though Polygon’s block count is around 2.5x less than the other L2 chains, the average transactions per block are 70x higher.
• Polygon's average time between blocks is around two seconds, while Optimism and Arbitrum can process the block in around one second (most of the block has 1 transaction)

The graph above shows the daily average time between blocks of Polygon compared to other L2 chains including Arbitrum and Optimism.

• Polygon has the highest stable time between blocks during the past 30 days, while Arbitrum and Optimism show the same trend.

The graph above shows Polygon's daily average transactions per block compared to other L/ chains including Arbitrum and Optimism.

• Polygon has 70x higher average transactions per block than the rest on L2 chains.

Conclusion

• Polygon’s time between blocks
  • 25, 2.27, and 2 for max, average, and min time between blocks.
  • More than 88% of all blocks have equal to 2 seconds from the previous block which is the minimum time between blocks.
• Polygon’s transactions per block
  • 1250, 71.8, and 0 for max, average, and min transactions per block.
  • 70% of all blocks have equal or less than 75 transactions per block, around the average of transactions per block.
• Compared to L1s
  • Polygon is mediocre in all measures except the minimum time between blocks which is the highest.
  • Solana has high block performance including the highest block count, the lowest all of time measures, and the highest transactions count in all measures.
• Compared to L2s
  • Polygon has the highest stable time between blocks during the past 30 days, while Arbitrum and Optimism show the same trend.
  • Polygon has 70x higher average transactions per block than the rest on L2 chains.