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One thing to take into account, if one is trying to get into the next block, is that it’s important to pay attention to time related factors on those charts. One such factor would be the amount of time the next block has been building-up for, and the number of TXs within so far. The other would be the data for the past few blocks (TXs, fee range, time, how full).
I’ve encountered some occasions when I wanted (yet not really needed) to get a TX into the next block, and whatever fee one sets that might "
barely" get you into the next block, may not do so eventually, especially if the block takes a longish amount of time to be mined (well over the average 10 min.).
I’d normally complement the fee decision with a view of
Johoe's Bitcoin Mempool Statistics, seeing the distribution of the number of TXs paying what fees is sats/vB, over recent moments in time. Eventually, if I really want to try to get into the next block, I may decide to overpay a bit (normally it’s going to be a few more cents), which is less valuable than the personal time I take staring at the screen, waiting for the TX to be included in a given block.