Down is good indeed

steemit.com receives about 161,500 unique visitors and 828,495 (5.13 per visitor) page views per day which should earn about $4,694.70/day from advertising revenue. Estimated site value is $2,544,175.18. According to Alexa Traffic Rank steemit.com is ranked number 2,395 in the world and 0.0323% of global Internet users visit it.

I just checked out that link you quoted and it gives this info.
Steemit is growing.