Kind of Good News? Steemit.com Alexa Rank no longer in Freefall by demotruk

steem · @demotruk · Jan 16 '19 (edited)

$3.09

Kind of Good News? Steemit.com Alexa Rank no longer in Freefall

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeqE46dHbjctc5y9y2kWCXf3b8RekivCWsMZE7eWyZgtS/image.png)

Shortly after the last Steem hard fork (which resulted in a brief period of posting difficulty due to adjusting to the new RC system), the web traffic on Steemit.com went into collapse.

I made a post about it and compared it to the web traffic on bitcointalk.org, the largest other crypto-related internet forum. [Based on the trends at the time, it looked like we should drop below BitcoinTalk in web traffic rank within 2 months](https://steemit.com/steemit/@demotruk/steemit-com-alexa-rank-just-keeps-dropping). Thankfully that hasn't happened, and while the web traffic of Steemit.com has stabilized, Bitcointalk (in line with most crypto websites) has just kept dropping. That could be an indication of lower interest in crypto generally or perhaps users are moving to other forums.

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYgCbEW26tmFordWpp9ucTefMoLbFJpy2rgFZugxj2WQw/image.png)

It is curious and strange to me that the web traffic has stabilized during a period where mostly new accounts were not being created for Steem. Especially given that Steem suffers from very high rates of turnover, and thus relies on a constant stream of new users. I don't have an explanation for this but I wonder if anyone else can explain it. It's also during a period when the price of the Steem token has collapsed, more than typical in crypto, dropping below the top 50 on coinmarketcap.com.

It's often suggested that the drop in Steemit.com traffic is explained by people using other Steem apps instead, but as far as I can see, all the other apps are still nowhere near replacing the lost traffic on Steemit.com.

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@adetorrent · Jan 16 '19

$0.03

Looks like it's levelling out.  Perhaps the existing people are posting more.  So twice instead of once a day for example... in an attempt to increase daily rewards.

👍 steevc, demotruk

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@steevc · Jan 16 '19

The lack of active users is good for us, but the Steemit site visitors is far higher than those who are actually logged in according to Alexa. It would be interesting to see what searches take them there.

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@steevc · Jan 16 '19

I'd noticed this too. I don't know when we can get back in the top 1000, but it's good that it's not falling. Other Steem sites have been growing, but not fast enough to explain the fall. I think it has just lost a lot of active users and we can see that from other data. I'm trying to recruit new users, but it's not easy. I don't think it's just about the Steem price. People seem happy with things like Facebook despite their issues.

👍 demotruk

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@demotruk · Jan 16 '19

$0.02

My suspicion is that Steemit.com has seen its heyday, and it will be some other Steem or website that breaks out into the mainstream. However it doesn't look like that will be any time soon; in the meantime the high traffic of Steemit.com helps to keep Steem somewhat relevant.

👍 steevc

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@steevc · Jan 16 '19

It will be interesting to see which others make it big. Some of them don't make it obvious that they run on Steem, but I guess it will be clear from the posts you see, especially as a lot of links will go to Steemit. I did a post showing how you can post a link that will go to the post on whatever front end you use. It seems a lot of others did not realise this was possible.

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@mcsamm · Jan 16 '19

good to share

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