dMania: 2017 Statistics

dMania is a “9GAG on Steem”. This application uses Steem blockchain and allows users to post memes and some other funny staff. It was introduced in October 2017 by @zombee. Despite the fact that the application is only 3,5 months old it is interesting to look at some results it has reached in 2017.

Outline

1. Scope of Analysis;
2. Tools;
3. Posts and comments summary;
4. Payouts distribution;
5. Authors with most posts, comments and payouts;
6. Applications used to posts
7. Short summary
8. Сonclusion

1. Scope of Analysis

• Date of the analysis: 20.01.2018
• Timeframe of the analysed data: from 01.10.2017 to 31.12.2017 (three months)

2. Tools

• Valentina Studio to get data from SteemSQL;
• Google Sheets to organize and sum up data;
• Google Data Studio to make graphs.

3. Posts and comments summary

In 2017 users created 24240 posts and 21847 comments.
Here is the distribution by month:

The graph clearly demonstrates the growing interest in the category (posts quantity growing +65% in November and +129% in December).
According to @penguinpablo daily reports (from October to December) usually on average 1 steemit post has more than 2 comments. As we can see posts under dmania category have fewer comments (0.9 per post) - this is the specialty of dMania as an app for mainly posting images and GIFs without any text. That doesn’t provoke any discussion as a rule.

4. Payouts distribution

In 2017 authors and curators got:

• $13043.92 as author rewards (in SBD and STEEM POWER)
• $4244.59 as curation rewards (in STEEM POWER)
  
  
  Here is the distribution of post payouts by month:
  
  Here is a chart to to see payouts distribution among posts:
  
  56.2% of all dmania posts got 0$ in payouts. 37.2% of posts got something between $0.01 and $0.99. Only 2.5% earned more than $5 in payouts.

5. Authors with most posts, comments and payouts

1156 authors created at least 1 post in dmania category. 854 (74%) of them earned at least $0.01 from all of their posts. создавали посты в категории dmaina.

5.1 Top authors by number of posts

The most productive user is @midobashamido who has created 3635 posts (15% of total number of posts)! His nearest closest pursuer @linuxmom authored “only” 541 posts.
Here is a table with top 10 users by number of posts in dmania category:

Author	Number of posts	% of all posts
@midobashamido	3635	15.00%
@linuxmom	541	2.23%
@venom642	521	2.15%
@ufuk	488	2.01%
@danthundercloud	393	1.62%
@saragold	372	1.53%
@beautyphotos	371	1.53%
@red.kryptonite	346	1.43%
@kingoflion	341	1.41%
@booster916	298	1.23%

5.2 Top authors by posts payouts

Here is a table with top 10 users by summary posts payouts in dmania category:

Author	Number of posts	Post payouts
@zombee	31	$1,394.79
@waliafridi	76	$829.67
@cnts	32	$623.09
@beautyphotos	371	$619.22
@ufuk	488	$601.86
@midobashamido	3635	$458.76
@redpill	30	$445.05
@nickfost	48	$379.89
@cryptovisitor	35	$318.14
@cryptocoiners	85	$270.86

5.3 Top authors by average post payout per post

The next point to examine: what authors had the biggest average payout per post?
Here is a table with top 10 users by average posts payout per post in dmania category:

Author	Number of posts	Payout per post
@michelle.gent	1	$69.76
@journeyoflife	1	$58.29
@nicniezgrublem	1	$57.75
@jefft	1	$50.58
@anaman	1	$50.02
@zombee	31	$44.99
@kwakumax	1	$40.48
@ashe-oro	4	$29.13
@bulleth	1	$28.89
@catwomanteresa	1	$26.90

In that list most users has only 1 post in dmania category. dMania’s founder @zombee is on the 7th place with a nice average payout at $44.99.

5.4 Top authors by number of upvotes

Here is a table with top 10 users by average posts payout per post in dmania category:

Author	Number of posts	Total number of upvotes	Upvotes per post
@midobashamido	3635	16337	4.5
@nickfost	48	8179	170.4
@elechuzo	16	7060	441.3
@beautyphotos	371	4466	12.0
@linuxmom	541	3216	5.9
@venom642	521	3019	5.8
@ufuk	488	2771	5.7
@red.kryptonite	346	2560	7.4
@arindammroy	133	2300	17.3
@twoitguys	17	2274	133.8

That TOP is shared by users that have some realistic numbers like 5-12 upvotes per post and users that have some cruel numbers like 133.8, 170.4 and 441.3 votes per post.

5.5 Top authors by comments under their posts

The last one index to explore is: TOP 10 authors by comments under their posts. Here is the table:

Author	Number of posts	Total number of comments	Comments per post
@midobashamido	3635	1608	0.44
@zombee	31	655	21.13
@havok777	92	599	6.51
@waliafridi	76	598	7.87
@cnts	32	538	16.81
@beautyphotos	371	503	1.36
@ufuk	488	395	0.81
@ebruaydogdu	140	380	2.71
@alamin0263	100	340	3.40
@red.kryptonite	346	312	0.90

6. Applications used to posts

It was interesting for me to see what apps do authors use for posting under dmania category. Here is the result of my research:

Application	Number of posts	% of posts created with an app
dMania	23332	96.25%
Steemit	865	3.57%
eSteem	29	0.12%
Busy	6	0.02%
Steepshot	4	0.02%
Steemauto	2	0.01%
Streemian	1	0.004%
Zappl	1	0.004%

dMania application is the King with more than 96% posts published using it. Steemit is on the second place with 3,57% share. All other applications have inconspicuous share.

7. Short summary

Here is a brief summary for dMania in 2017:

• Total number of posts created under dmania category: 24240
• Total number of upvotes for dmania category: 171082
• Total number of comments for dmania category: 21847
• Total unique authors posted under dmania category: 1156
• Total payout for posts made under dmania category: $17288.51 ($13043.92 author rewards paid in SBD and STEEM POWER and $4244.59 curation rewards paid in STEEM POWER)

8. Сonclusion

dMania is at the very beginning of its life but already got growing interest by the community. Every months the number of posts/comments and payouts increases. And with the latest news from dMania’s founder @zombee (Steemit Supports dMania with 500k Steem Power) I’m sure that dMania is going to accelerate it’s growth!