5 [ALGO] Performance

    Average Block Times

    The average block time has consistently remained between 4 and 5 seconds since the beginning. In the beginning, we had a couple of days where the block times were as high as 25 seconds.

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    Max and Min Block Times

    As seen above, the maximum block time was 25 seconds at the beginning of Algorand in 2019 but since then it has been consistently around 4.5s.

    The minimum block time is another story. I got 0 as the minimum but since that's not possible, I decided to filter it out. Then I was left with 1s as the minimum block time.

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    Largest Block

    The largest block was the block number 17758402 on December 1, 2021 which had nearly 5000 transactions!

    99.8% of the transactions in this block were of type "payment".

    Transactions per Block

    For calculating the increase in transactions per block over time, I calculated the daily average since showing the number of blocks till now on a chart was infeasible.

    From this analysis, we can clearly see the average number of transactions per block increasing to a steady state of 100 with some peaks in excess of 200.

    For the maximum, we see the number being as high as 5000 on a regular basis beginning in 2021. Another trend to notice is that beginning in December 2021, the max between the peaks is the highest it has ever been. It seems as if the max peaks will become the new steady state.