Overview

Polygon is one the most popular L2 scaling solution of Ethereum with a lot of users on the platform. However, performance of the Polygon is a question that any user who wants to use the platform wanted to know. So, let take a look at key block performance indicators of Polygon and compare these indicators with other blockchains.

Methods

In this dashboard we will need to deep dive Polygon block data, which is stored in polygon.core.fact_blocks table. Similarly, we can also get block data of Solana blockchain in solana.core.fact_blocks table and Optimism block data in optimism.core.fact_blocks table.

Use tx_count column in these tables, we can get how many transactions in each block and use block_timestamp column in these tables, we can get time between blocks

We can draw several insights based on the chart above:

• Solana is the best blockchain among 3 blockchains while it has maximum 7597 transaction per block, average 1750 transactions per block, and median 1701 transaction per block, minimum 0 transaction per block.
• Polygon is the second best blockchain in the list while it has maximum 1332 transaction per block, average 74 transactions per block, and median 58 transaction per block, minimum 0 transaction per block.
• Optimism only has 1 transaction per block.

We can draw several insights based on the chart above:

• Solana is the worst blockchain among 3 blockchains while it has the worst maximum time between blocks with 16033 seconds, the minimum number is 0 second, the average number is 0.66 seconds.
• Polygon is far better than Solana when it has the maximum time between blocks is 168 seconds, the average time between blocks is 2.24 seconds, the minimum time between blocks is 2 secondss
• Optimism is also a good blockchain in term of time between blocks. It has the maximum time between blocks is 58 seconds, the average time between blocks is 0.86 seconds, the minimum time between blocks is 0 second.