Scenario

Block propagation and regional arrival lag.

The probe(s) subscribe with eth_subscribe(newHeads) and capture each block header arrival. Datasets from all regions are merged by number + hash to detect the leader and followers for each block.

Of the possible 31 regions, 31 were selected for data collection: Oregon, N. California, Mexico, Columbus, OH, N. Virginia, Montreal, São Paulo, Ireland, Zaragoza, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Stockholm, Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Dubai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, Osaka, Tokyo, Melbourne, and Sydney.

Each location probe breaks its processing loop if / when the endpoint response is too-many-requests, a.k.a. HTTP code 429 etc. Also, codes 401 and 403.

At the time of the report generation: 62 of 62 datasets were available from 31 selected regions x 2 endpoints.

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Findings

AxB BLOCK-REGION LEADERSHIP
A. api.Zan.top
leading block * region
245
behind block * region
3881
tied block * region
6
avg lag when behind (ms)
401.0
A. COMPLETENESS
unique a.blocks / hashes
149
observed in all a.probes
130
A. BLOCK NUMBER GAPS
count of unique gaps
0
count of probes w gaps
0
A. RPC RESPONSES
Success
4166
Fail
1
429
0
AxB BLOCK-REGION LEADERSHIP
B. arbitrum-mainnet.core.Chainstack.com
leading block * region
3881
behind block * region
245
tied block * region
6
avg lag when behind (ms)
50.5
B. COMPLETENESS
unique b.blocks / hashes
143
observed in all b.probes
136
B. BLOCK NUMBER GAPS
count of unique gaps
0
count of probes w gaps
0
B. RPC RESPONSES
Success
4326
Fail
0
429
0

Summary by Dataset

Summary by Block

Includes only "complete" blocks (blocks seen by every probe). The p95 of the values in the column "p95" is: 1158.1 ms.

Details

Per block, leading endpoint-region vs. every other arrival for the same block hash, incl. blocks not seen by every probe. Regional "wall clocks" are treated as globally synchronized. 1 dataset does not have rows in this table. Review Errors below for more info.

Errors

Info about errors incl. 429. Up to 4 retained error responses per endpoint, per region. Scenario-derived availability notes may also appear.