I don't pay too much attention to stats. It could be misleading. Look for instance powering up. The statistic for that is great, but almost nobody powering up except two already big accounts. Or like upvotes are up, but we have some spamming bots for commenting. You know what I mean. When steemit inc. put their stuff in a place, (which I'm sure they will) every account should buy 20 steem. The price will go to $10 immediately and masses, advertisers, and exchanges will come like vultures. That's my take on this, but I don't know anything about this. Just my logic.