Category and Time-of-Day Trends
A single stream tells you how that stream went. Put a few dozen of them side by side and a different question comes up: which category, and which hours, did your chat actually turn up for? Trends answers that with the figures that were measured, and leaves the judgement to you.
What you can do
- Every category you have streamed, compared on average chatters, chatters who spoke, messages per minute and average peak.
- A weekday by hour heatmap of the same metrics, built from the hours you were actually live rather than from the start time of a stream.
- Filter the heatmap down to one category, to see whether a slot looks different depending on what you were playing.
- Each bar and each cell carries n, the number of streams the figure was measured from, together with the observed hours behind it. Cells with too few streams are drawn as reference values.
- Slots where nothing could be measured are shown separately from slots where you did not stream, so a blank never has to be guessed at. Hours follow the time zone in your settings.
How it works
Each stream is cut at every category change, and each segment is aggregated on its own. A stream that went from one game to another and back contributes to both categories.
For the heatmap, each segment is walked in five-minute steps and assigned to the hours you were actually live. Averages are weighted by the time behind them; rates such as messages per minute carry over to each hour unchanged. A stream that runs past midnight lands in both hours, and in both weekdays when it crosses the day.
A stream that touches an hour slot for less than 10 minutes is left out of that slot entirely, rather than counted as a full hour with a thin observation behind it.
The number of chatters who spoke is the size of a set of people, so it cannot be divided across hours. That metric is shown by category only. Older streams can also be missing the figures based on messages, because chat message bodies are kept for 14 days; past streams fill in gradually as the aggregation catches up.
Free and Pro
Free plan
A free account sees the trends for its 10 most recent streams. Everything on the page works; the aggregation simply runs over a shorter window.
Pro plan
Pro ($6.99 a month) aggregates every stream on record, with no time limit, so the categories and the slots are read from the whole history.
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Frequently asked questions
Does it tell me the best time to stream?
No, and that is deliberate. It shows what was measured in the slots you have already streamed in. One broadcaster does not produce enough streams for a recommendation to hold up statistically, and a number presented as advice would be read as far more certain than it is. The reading is yours to make.
What is the difference between average chatters and chatters who spoke?
Average chatters is how many people were in chat at a given moment, averaged over time. Chatters who spoke is how many different people actually wrote a message. Someone who watches without typing counts in the first and not in the second.
Why do some cells say not measured?
A cell can be empty for two different reasons, and the page keeps them apart. Either you never streamed in that slot, or you did stream but that particular metric could not be measured from it, for example when a segment was too short to collect anything. A cell with few streams behind it is marked as a reference value rather than presented as a firm figure.
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The demo runs on sample data and needs no account. Signing in with Twitch is what starts recording your own.