This is my best attempt at a fair comparison between searches for Dash and searches for Steem.

It is interesting that Steem got some initial interest much, much earlier than Dash in its lifetime. Steem in my view has way more potential and could get going much faster than Dash ever did. When you compare transaction rates, Dash is trivial. Steem has every crypto bar Bitcoin beaten by that metric (and Dash has votes too, so it's a fairer comparison than with other cryptos).