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Averages 11 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Wednesdays around 12 PM UTC. Mostly link posts (95%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
11 1%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
259 6%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
13 28%
Activity Rank #13,077 by posts/day among 90,883 tracked SFW subreddits as of Sep 2026 (Top 25%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#13,077 37
Top 25%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
95%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
58%

r/EverythingScience Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes051015202505001k1.5k2kSep 1Sep 8Sep 15Sep 22Sep 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Link
Typical Title Length Medium (93 chars)
Peak Day Saturday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

2–9
7%
10–99
41%
100–999
42%
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10%
Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 72%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 104
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 6.0K

r/EverythingScience Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

Sun 8 PM
Mon 10 AM
Tue 8 AM
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Thu 1 PM
Fri 10 AM
Sat 6 AM

r/EverythingScience Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

Flair Posts Upvotes
Environment40 (17.9%)177
Medicine24 (10.7%)156
Biology21 (9.4%)300
Animal Science18 (8.0%)457
Neuroscience15 (6.7%)401
Space13 (5.8%)252
Interdisciplinary11 (4.9%)121
Astronomy11 (4.9%)38
Physics11 (4.9%)233
Psychology9 (4.0%)151

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

94%link posts

r/EverythingScience Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
scientists
35 (10.5%)
53526
study
23 (6.9%)
33619
may
20 (6.0%)
29615
first
18 (5.4%)
2096
found
15 (4.5%)
55731
science
15 (4.5%)
26510
years
14 (4.2%)
37813
finds
14 (4.2%)
30219
research
14 (4.2%)
49726
life
13 (3.9%)
35911

r/EverythingScience Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
nature.com17111
theguardian.com17152
scientificamerican.com16203
phys.org13129
scmp.com12499
space.com10132
the-scientist.com10485
earth.com8526
cbc.ca7221
sciencenews.org7134

r/EverythingScience Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

Scientists discovered an underwater city of 20,000 octopus nests deep inside California coast; largest known nursery on the planet

6.0K upvotes 99 comments link Sep 7

Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them

5.3K upvotes 76 comments link Sep 3

Sugary drinks linked to more than double stomach cancer risk

2.6K upvotes 134 comments link Sep 8

Physics Ph.D. grads depart U.S. at record rates as new policies sweep science

2.5K upvotes 61 comments link Sep 13

Human brain is two separate organs: A new study led by Stanford Medicine found the brain is two separate organs adjacent to one another. The finding could aid research into devastating neurological diseases.

2.3K upvotes 124 comments link Sep 18

Blood test for multiple cancers clears crucial hurdle on track to FDA approval

2.0K upvotes 25 comments link Sep 24

Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge. The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.

1.9K upvotes 36 comments link Sep 30

Scientists Made Ice Stay Solid Above 2,000°C. The 'Superionic Ice' Could Be Found Inside Uranus and Neptune: The researchers squeezed water to millions of atmospheres and discovered a bizarre new form of ice

1.8K upvotes 71 comments link Sep 10

U.S. Life Expectancy is Circling the Drain

1.8K upvotes 89 comments link Sep 26

Researchers found that cockroach milk proteins boast more than triple the energy content of dairy milk, winning the 2026 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1.8K upvotes 236 comments link Sep 5

r/EverythingScience Audience Overlap

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r/EverythingScience FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/EverythingScience?

Based on posting volume, r/EverythingScience is most active on Wednesdays around 12 PM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/EverythingScience?

r/EverythingScience averages 11 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/EverythingScience get?

Posts on r/EverythingScience average about 259 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/EverythingScience get most?

On r/EverythingScience, most posts are link posts (95%)