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Health, a science-based community to discuss human health Founded 2008 · 3.6M members · links only

3.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.2K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.6Mmembers
20.2Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

99%
Link 99% Image 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday announced the state is manufacturing its own insulin and capping the cost at $30

↑ 20.2K 💬 753 link 2023

U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick

↑ 19.5K 💬 2.2K link 2023

New Mexico governor directs $10 million for new abortion clinic near Texas border

↑ 10K 💬 285 link 2022

Charlie Kirk branded "human garbage" over Damar Hamlin remarks implying his in-game heart attack was caused by the Covid vaccine

↑ 9.8K 💬 984 link 2023

The CDC is begging you (again) to stop eating raw cookie dough amid a new multistate Salmonella outbreak that has hospitalized 3 people

↑ 9.1K 💬 1.2K link 2023

Cancer rates are climbing among young people. It’s not clear why

↑ 7.7K 💬 2.4K link 2023

Biden proposal to cap all insulin prices at $35 a month has little chance of passing Congress

↑ 7.3K 💬 836 link 2023

A Utah plastic surgeon and three of his associates are facing federal charges for a year-long scheme in which they allegedly squirted around 2,000 va…

↑ 6.4K 💬 639 link 2023

New ‘Frankenstein’ opioids more dangerous than fentanyl alarming state leaders across US as drug crisis rages

↑ 6K 💬 1.2K link 2023

She needed an abortion to survive. Texas was ready to let her die with her baby

↑ 5.8K 💬 823 link 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Health, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Health?
r/Health describes itself this way: Health, a science-based community to discuss human health. It was founded in 2008 and has 3.6M members.
How many members does r/Health have?
r/Health has about 3.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 20.2K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Health?
"California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday announced the state is manufacturing its own insulin and capping the cost at $30" reached 20.2K upvotes and 753 comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Health.
What subreddits are similar to r/Health?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats, r/awfuleverything.
What kind of posts do best on r/Health?
Of the posts we hold, 99% are link posts and 1% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Health?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (7.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Health?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Health has 3.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Health, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.