Nice work OP. I don't remember there are analysis about miner pool due to to TX fee, so i find it's interesting analysis. I also appreciate you make your website open source. But aside from required parameter (txindex, zmqpubsequence, etc.), do you run Bitcoin Core with default parameter?
You have complete self hosting instructions in
https://github.com/mempoolexplorer/mempoolexplorer There's a section about bitcoin.conf
Let me know if you had any problems following the instructions to change them accordingly. Thanks.
Also worth to mention there are several protocol used by miner/pool for faster block propagation. IIRC there are FIBRE, Falcon and Fast Relay Network.
Yep!, a point to be aware of.