RE: Steemit Statistics & Big Data: 🚀 End of November 2018 Update 🚀
Hi @vlemon, great to see you contributing via Utopian, welcome! You've tagged your contribution as a #blog post, however we believe the #analysis category is a better fit here. You've picked a very interesting question on finding out how many unique users Steemit.com has! I'm actually surprised to see the numbers that high. Around 7m unique visitors for the month an around 300k per day is pretty good, given that we have only around 10k active authors!
Utopian analysis contributions typically contain data gathering, transformation, filtering and visualization steps described in a reproducible way, and the Utopian review procedures assume this to some extend. Your approach therefore doesn't fit this very well. Having the data collected and visualized via external tools and services makes it a bit harder to judge which steps/graphs were done by you and which were compiled from other sources. You've shown a lot of graphs - which conclusions would you draw from them? Do you have more information on how this data is collected? I can image how the search-related data is gathered, but especially seeing numbers of direct page visits, gender and age distribution results requires users sharing their full web presence with these services? I'd expect (hope) that this the case only for a fraction of the "human" users? Do you know more about that?
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Hello there @crokkon,
Thank you for writing this very interesting comment.
I use different free sources such as Google Trends or Alexa (Amazon).
But I also use a paying source called Similarweb, they give me access to most of these datas that I compile in excel after. I have to save them as I have only access to it on a 12 months rolling basis.
They get their datas from different sources: browser add-on that consumers use allow them to « track » users (gender, time...), they also refine this through companies willing to have access to the full datas and communicating their owns to the platform. They make a « statistic panel » with the data they have to crops check these numbers.
The conclusion is that Steemit.com is still losing members (active) but that there are a very strong power in all articles published that have been very well referenced on Google. It increasingly become most of the traffic.
Finally, I also do Steem ecosystem analysis and we can see that 3rd party dapps such as dtube, busy, SteemMonsters are doing much better and holding their users over the long term.
I could go more deeply into the process but I am on vacations right now.
Should I have applied for utopian through the website ? I have been doing these analysis for more than a year. One monthly big Steemit Big Data analysis.
Take care and Merry Christmas
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Thanks for the additional information on the data gathering/collection services! There's no need
(and no way) to apply for Utopian through the website. Just add the corresponding tags to your post and it will be evaluated by Utopian moderators. As I said above, the Utopian analysis category is mainly targeted towards analyses which include own data gathering and processing/visualization steps and not so much on the compilation of data gathered by others. But as long as there is significant analysis of the results in addition to the presentation of graphs/results from external sources, this can be supported by Utopian as well.
Thank you for your review, @crokkon! Keep up the good work!