Steemit Vs Facebook! Where is Steemit lacking and what needs to be done!

Firstly I want to tell you that I am not relating Facebook with Steemit as they are completely different platforms.

So without further due let's get into it.
Alexa is a website which tracks the progress and statistics of websites and from the past few months I have been following it closely.

The international rank of Steemit is #942

Websites have of course different ranks in different countries but at alexa, average rank is taken.

Now let's take a look at the Facebook rank

Facebook is ranked 3rd all over the world which makes it one of the most popular websites in the world.

The above pictures gave an overview of rankings about the two websites.

What is the problem with Steemit and where is Facebook better

• Steemit takes about 3.956 seconds to load which is very slow and might count as one of the flaws the website has.
  

Facebook takes 2.885 to load which is also slow but much faster compared to that of steemit.

According to alexa 85% of the websites are faster than steemit.

• The world's largest country in terms of population(China) is not in the top five countries with most number of users.

United States has been leading the user count since the start by a huge margin.

United States again covers the majority of users when it comes to Facebook but Facebook is almost used in ever country which is where steemit lacks.

• The number of male users in steemit are dominant over females and almost 90% of the steemit users are males.

Now if we compare the above stats to Facebook, more than 60% of the users are females (there might be some men signing up with female names).
Overall the female users are dominant on facebook.

• The time taken for new account verification process is huge sometimes.
  I was on google play store and I looked at eSteem application to see what users say about eSteem and I found this

Lot of users give up using steemit because sometimes verification process may take months because it is manual.
Now I know Hive account@ned spoke about speeding up the process of account verification but I believe the account verification process needs to be automated because we might see huge traffic in the coming months especially after the release of Smart Media Tokens.

No need to mention that account creation on Facebook is instant.

• Mobile application
  Mobile application is is the most necessary tool a social networking website must have and should be the priority of Hive account@ned and co. as users cannot take their laptops everywhere.

We have a decent mobile application for Facebook and most of the users access Facebook via the application.

The positives

• It was just a few months back when I saw the ranking of steemit on alexa was around 2000 and now as I type this, it is already rose up to 941.
  That is huge progress indeed.

• Last week Japan was was the 5th major country in terms of visitors which is now overtaken by India and this really is a good thing because India is the second largest country in terms of population.

• Scams like the recent bitconnect scam brought a huge traffic to steemit.

This shows that we need to write more about such scams as there are plenty.

Need

• Smartphone application is the most important thing needed right now so that users can access steemit everywhere.

• Creating a lighter version of steemit for those who browse steemit on mobile(You can name it steemit lite).

• Doing promotional activities in countries like China.

• Improving the account verification process.
  If it can't be automatic, it has to be fast.

All the pictures are from alexa.com except the one with ratings which is from Google play.