Steemit has risen significantly on Alexa ranking!

Hello everyone,

It has been a little while since I checked the position of Steemit on www.alexa.com. It is a great site to see where in the search the certain site stands and how well it performs. It was about 3 months ago when I used to check Alexa fairly regularly and Steemit seemed to be stuck at 2200 in the world ranking and some 1000 in the US ranking and hardly moving. So it was a nice surprise for me to find out today that the move over the past few weeks has been significant with the site being ranked as #1728 most researched site in the world right now and #703 in the US. We also crossed 500 000 registered accounts recently and the price of Steem has risen nicely as well.

This actually makes me wonder what can we expect next year in terms of number of registered accounts. One of the steemians actually commented on one of my posts recently seeing the growth of users to increase 50 to 100 times. I personally think that is quite ambitious and do not see that happening until 2019. One thing that I am pretty sure of is that once the wider adoptions starts taking the place the move will be fast. My guess and prediction for the number of registered users is somewhere around 5 million by the end of 2019. Don't take my word for it though as it really is only a guess. How about you? What is your thoughts?