Useful sites in my daily Steemitsphere.

Hey there Steemians!

I realized this morning that I open up a few Steemit tracking pages each day when logging onto the internet. These Steemit trackers help me to understand what my bandwidth is, how long until my voting power is at 100%, who is upvoting my posts, who is resteeming, who is commenting, who replies, also who, if anyone, is mentioning me. I use Steemit trackers multiple times every day.

Being a minnow I find that my bandwidth is low pretty much every morning. This can be really frustrating. For any action on the Steemit blockchain you need bandwidth, no matter which action you want to take. Especially when you are making a reply or attempting to make a comment. finding that you have no bandwidth can be stifling. This tracker - Steemd.com - has a lot of information, although much of it is lost on me as a relatively new user. Two of the trackers are hugely useful. 1. Voting power gauge, it lets you know how many hours until you are at full voting power, and how much value your vote brings to posts you upvote. 2. Bandwidth remaining, this tracker lets you know how much bandwidth you have. From what I have learned, depending on how many users are online making transactions on Steemit, all of the bandwidth can be in use. This causes the new people to be stripped of their bandwidth. Basically the people who have invested their time and money into the system are given priority. They have put in the effort and so are rewarded with access to Steemit services. Meanwhile us little guys are basically sidelined.
Thanks to @roadscape for Steemd.com

Another useful Steemit tracker is http://www.steem.supply. This tracker presents more information than I am able to understand at this point. SteemSupply lets you know when your posts are being paid out, how much value your comments and posts are earning, who is voting on your posts and how much weight they have given their votes. SteemSupply also lets you know which of your posts and tags are most popular. SteemSupply is helpful in many ways, it can help you focus on the categories your audience is interested in, allowing you to create content you know people will upvote and resteem. SteemSupply also has a useful graph which shows the value of SBD compared to Steem, this information is useful when deciding how much SBD to convert to Steem.
Thanks to @dragosroua for http://www.steem.supply.

Another useful Steemit tracker is Steemnow.com it shows your voting power, reputation, your SBD and SP balances, it also shows how much your vote is worth when you vote with 100% of your weight. Steemnow.com also shows you who has been upvoting your posts and with what weight, it tells you how much your curation and autor awards are for the day as well as for the week.
Thanks to @penguinpablo for Steemnow.com

While these sites may seem like so much technobabble at the outset, eventually you will become more familiar with the terms these sites use, and learn better how to understand which information is most useful. At this point I still have a lot to learn about Steemit, and as I mentioned above much of the information on these tracking websites is lost on me, I am still pretty new here.

I hope you find this information useful. It’s a little overwhelming, but just keep swimming!

Many thanks to Steemit Creators Guild for their proofreaders.