Analysis Of Traffic Stats for Steemit/Dtube - inc. Competitor Comparison & Traffic Breakdowns. Meteoric Growth Continues!
Alexa.com provides useful traffic statistics for most websites, calculated based on data collected via the Alexa browser addon and also direct website analysis and indexing. Let's look at what we can see about the present state of Steemit and related sites in the social network arena...
Steemit Today
As you can see, Steemit is currently ranked the 942nd busiest site on the web globally, not bad!
Note: All the following data is from the US region when a region is specified and the data is not global. The data compares Steemit with a variety of well known sites for reference only. These figures are not absolutely accurate since Alexa does not have access to totally accurate traffic data for these sites.
Comparison Of Steemit With Competitors
Alexa produces a rank of most sites on the internet, allowing us to see which is the most popular site in the world, why and also many other useful data points.
The following graph shows how Steemit.com compares to well known sites. We can see that Facebook and Youtube are number 3 and 2 in terms of traffic back in December and not much has changed since then. DTube is blazing upwards, surpassing busy.org and even nearly passing minds.com! Way to go!
As we can see though, the gap between the top sites and those further down is pretty massive in terms of amounts of unique visitors to each platform:
Search Engine Optimisation
Steemit is doing very well indeed in terms of SEO. Only Wikipedia has a better organic search profile than Steemit out of our examples here. This is great news for those seeking to gain exposure and to advertise their work and websites. Why pay extortionate fees to Google or even Facebook to place adverts when you can post on Steemit, get great organic traffic via search engines and even get paid in the process!?
There's certainly space for improvement in terms of gaining additional links from other sites pointing in to Steemit.
I think this combination of statistics is revealing in that it points to lots of quality content on Steemit that isn't even being noticed by users on other sites very much. You can definitely help steemit by posting links to your steemit posts on other websites that have a high authority such as in descriptions for your youtube videos.
Gender breakdown
This is perhaps the most revealing for me. Steemit is dominated by males! This is no surprise to me, however, since Steemit is very masculine in almost every sense.. The heavy focus on technology, maths and the apparent total absence of femininity in the core team has meant that there is little here to attract women. As every good nightclub events organiser knows: attract the women and the men will follow..
Hint: Figure out how to attract women here and it will help a lot!
I suspect it is going to take the communities feature to really achieve this and then it is going to also take considerable evolution of the platform for it to appeal to the sensibilities of many women. Ladies, what do you feel Steemit needs to succeed in this regard?
Let me know if you like this kind of data and I will provide more in future.
Wishing you well,
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Good post! Thanks for sharing this info. This line specifically stood out "Why pay extortionate fees to Google or even Facebook to place adverts when you can post on Steemit, get great organic traffic via search engines and even get paid in the process!?" This is a reason why STEEM could benefit from an ad sales team and why platforms like steemrush.com could help.
Thanks, you are welcome! Steem/Steemit absolutely needs to work with a pro marketing team. I am working with one in Britain currently for another project that could potentially cause Steem to explode. No comment from Steemit inc.
I noticed some serious performance issues with the Steem blockchain Friday. Do you think if is related to the growth?
There was a problem with the main Steemit servers which stopped steemit and busy, but steem itself was unaffected. I don't know exactly what the cause of the issue was.
I think I'll check out ureka and see what you doing their. I did like this information and am happy about Dtube's success.
Great, ok! I haven't been active on there much as I am building a presence on Steemit. At some point this year I will be probably integrating an SMT there, essentially making Ureka an established version of something like OnStellar is aiming to be ;)
Being on here everyday and telling my gf about it, her biggest slights are no direct contact with members, and lack of optics on app/phone link. Hope we can get more even dinamics here and keep an independent dialog going.
I find it a bit odd that with the growth of the traffic the value of STEEM does not rise. Do you have any insights into why this may not happen?
Two main reasons come to mind:
I'm glad to see that growth is continuing. But I did want to point out a minor metaphor problem: "meteoric growth" seems an oxymoron and doesn't seem appropriate here. Meteors come down, not up.
Maybe "explosive growth" might be a better metaphor.
Just sayin'. :)
hehe.. here's a definition from wordnik:
;)
Wow!
Great piece of info. The blogging and the art should attract females cause they're very good at it. Maybe it needs more time..
The gender dominance is simply because almost every new field is male dominant. Crypto is way too volatile(hence scary) to attract a high percentage of females in the beginning.
To some extent, they'll probably catch up though in few years but I doubt it will be a 50-50. I still believe that projects like Steemit(Bat, Presearch, etc.) could be a bridge to the crypto world because it's easier to do things people normally did for decades than instantly start trading digital currencies.
What could help? I have some ideas in mind but let's start with two: Women talking to women about it + a bigger perceived value thanks to people they know well.(famous people praising cryptos)
If you look at the following infographic it is clear that some platforms attract more men and some, more women:
These sites aren't new and yet clearly some are male dominated.
My comment was simply about why this is the case on Steemit. Or, why it can't really be otherwise at the moment. For sure it's not a 100% fix rule for everything, but for new fields(especially tech) this phenomenon is really common. Crypto is extremely young and extremely techy. And the early adopters pave the path for the vast majority of the population. I'm sure you experienced it too how IT schools still have like 90-10 ratio. For some reason, simply we are more interested in such things, while they are interested in different things. Which is fine. However, if we could see crypto movies, clothing, makeup, nails(like what Katy Perry posted on Instagram), etc that's more likely appealing to women, more of them would talk about cryptos and more men would get into this space to appeal to them. Would it drastically change the investment ratio? I kind of doubt it.
Since cryptospace is heavily male dominant, Steemit statistics can't be a lot different. As you said it too: "The heavy focus on technology, maths and the apparent total absence of femininity in the core team has meant that there is little here to attract women. " It's not the average social site, it's a site for those who want to make a living with the help of digital currencies. Why would they register and try to earn STEEM/SBD if they aren't interested in digital currencies? There was a similar topic elsewhere. It was funny to read about a dad who has 2(or 3?) daughters and one son. He said it was an interesting experience how his daughters couldn't care less about making money with crypto while his son instantly jumped at the opportunity and wanted to learn more. Hopefully they will catch up soon, more people would mean more money.
Surely there will be both cases at old & famous websites and for sure some of those have a "random effect" for whatever reason. To be honest, the stats for most of the sites above aren't surprising, except the music sites. I wouldn't have guessed that. But as you can see, more women seem to join mainstream social sites/social discovery sites where they can share their daily moments + sites that lean towards recipes, clothing, fashion, etc.
My experience of female friends who come here has generally been that the get emotionally repulsed by the system and it's difficult learning curve - maybe the guys just see it as more of a challenge.
I guess it's only a matter of time though before the teachers of nail polish techniques and the correct angle for eye liner realise that they can make more money on dtube than on youtube! hehe
I think busy.org should make a pink user interface for women. lol
hehe. I made a unicorn theme for steemit and it was the most popular one out of the 4 I made, so maybe you are right!
That's way to go Steemit. I think Dtube is going to grow quite fast than a lots of other site. Similar ones have come out in the last few weeks like Amp but none gets like Dtube. They should just work on making it easier for videos to be uploaded using mobile device.