Steemit verses Bitcointalk?
For a while I've been tracking the steady rise of steemit.com in the alexa rankings. Two milestones lie ahead, one symbolic and the other potentially signifying an important turning point. The symbolic goal will occur when we breach the top 2000 websites worldwide. The significant turning point will occur when we pass bitcointalk.org. As the latter has been ranked around 1700, the symbolic milestone looked like it would reached first.
Two things may mean that won't be the case...
Steemit has levelled in the rankings just below 2000.
Steemit growth has stalled. I've heard that Alexa average out the visitor stats over a few months on a rolling basis to avoid wild fluctuations, and so what we might be seeing here is the effect of the slow down in crypto activity following the last bitcoin crash, possibly combined the traditional summer lull in soial media activity. Probably website rankings are also much more competative at this level.
Bitcointalk.org is falling in the rankings...
So the bitcoin and crypto forum, bitcointalk is falling in the rankings, meaning it might (and I stress might and not will) fall below steemit, rather than have steemit leap ahead of it. Furthermore, this event might occur below the top 2000.
When it happens.
When it happens it will be a significant victory for steemit. Whilst bitcointalk is not a direct competetor, it is perhaps the closest steemit has to an immediate rival sight at the current time. Bitcointalk is a bitcoin and crypto forum, and whilst a lot of discussion on steem covers these subjects, we also discuss a lot of other subjects as well. Even so, it will prove significant as we will not only be the most open and transparent crypto discussion forum, we will also be the most visited.
I for one will be keeping an eye on these stats...
In some nations, steemit is already ahead
It should also be noted that in the USA, the UK and Germany, steemit is already well ahead of bitcoin talk.