How are we doing with posting these days, having in mind the low overall activity on chain. What is the time when Hivers post and vote/curate the most? Which days of the week? What hour of the day?
Let’s take a look at the latest data from October 2026.
Bearing in mind Hive is a global community posting and voting time can vary a lot. Different time zones etc. Can users optimize their posting time, so they get some more attention?
Here we will be running the data for posting and voting time in parallel, so users can compare them. We will be looking at the hours, and at the days of the week, and combine them for a heat map.
We will be analyzing a five-weeks period, September 21 to October 25, 2026.
The time is in UTC. You can compare it with your local time zone here: https://time.is/UTC
Hours
First the hours. Let’s take a look what time of the day Hivers posted and voted the most in the period.
Note again on the UTC time.
On the posting side we can see that there is a clear trend, where there is more posting between 13h to 15h UTC, with a peak somewhere around 14h and a second peak around 18h. Overall, there is more posting in the 12h to 20h period. Between 5 and 9, there is the lowest number of posts. There is a drop from (18h) to the low hour (9).
On the voting/curating side there is a similar pattern but with more irregularities. There is a peak around 15h then 19h and again at 20h. Interestingly there are some spikes in the voting activity in the 1 to 5 hours, when the posting is low.
The data above is a sum of all the posts in the hours for the period analyzed.
Days of the Week
Now that we have seen the hours data, lets take a look at the days of the week. What days of the week Hivers post and vote the most?
What days of the week Hivers post and vote the most?
A clear trend on the posts here. Wednesday and Tuesday are the days with the highest numbers of posts, with Monday close behind, while weekends have lower activity. Although the drop in the number of posts is not that big. From 6.9k to 6.3k.
The voting shows a less pronounced pattern, with the peak on Tuesday and the lowest activity on Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday are close to the workdays, with only a small difference across the week.
Heatmap
Combing the days and hours and we get the heat map.
First the posts:
We can see that the start of the week between 12h and 20h is quite busy. This period seems to be divided into two waves, first with a peak around 14h, a slowdown afterwards and again a second peak around 18h. Going towards the weekend the numbers get lower. Monday at 18h is the highest activity in the week.
The quite hours are between 5h and 9h, slightly shifted during the weekend.
On a 2D surface chart the same data looks like this:
The light blue is with lower activity, dark blue with higher activity. We can clearly see the higher activity at the in the period of 12 to 20 and the slowdown in the “morining” hours and also a somewhat slowdown for the weekend.
The votes heatmap** looks like this.
Again, voting seems more random than posting. Some spikes happening randomly between hours and days. Although there is more activity in the period as for the posts, that is 13h to 20h. Saturday looks busier for voting than Sunday. Around 8h and 22h is obviously quieter for voting as well.
On a 2D surface chart the voting data looks like this:
Three zones here. The gray represents somewhat of a middle ground, the orange the lows and yellow the peak. Around 20h is the overall peak, while the lows are around 22h. Monday at 5h also stands out.
Put together the two charts look like this:
All the best @dalz
