There have been some pretty big changes in the traffic trends for Steemit.com recently. Firstly, it's heavily down worldwide.
Without trying to identify the actual cause of the traffic decline, we can see that it is driven largely by an exodus of Korean users. The web rank of Steemit.com in South Korea has gone from the top 150 websites in the country, to now outside of the top 700. Most of that decline has been just in the last couple of months.
China is now in the top 5 regions but that's not very interesting, given that it's the largest population of people and internet users in the world.What is more interesting for me is the couple of regions that are getting high on the list. Venezuela now accounts for 3.3% of Steemit.com traffic and 2.6% of users by Alexa's measurement. Venezuela is not a wealthy country, but it is a key region for Steem, where a cryptocurrency has a chance to genuinely compete with the local fiat currency. By web rank, it's the best country in the world for Steemit.com right now at 584.
Nigeria is similar, with a less severe currency crisis still in recent memory, and a very large and active Steem community, it's now in the top 10 countries for Steemit.com traffic overall and it's one of our best by web rank.
Note: due to Alexa's methods of statistical sampling, their measurements of traffic tend to be less accurate the lower the internet population in a certain country. That's why I do not draw attention above to Myanmar or Ireland, even though it seems to show surprisingly high traffic for the size of the internet userbase in those countries. Those are likely just statistical artifacts.
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