Search volume and web traffic on the rise
Steemians, I am personally highly interested in traffic trends, search volume and related analytics - mainly as I have to handle this for our company to measure efficiency of certain campaigns - top sources are Alexa, hypestat, Google Trends and rank2traffic. The following should show that the trend is good but there is a lot room for improvement both for the currency and the platform.
Please also be careful when analysing our own great achievement pushing certain steemit posts / keywords on top of the search results. If you do this via the same browser and computer you did the posts you rank high but that is not the real life result! (Just at least clear your cache sometimes!)
I was looking up search volume for Steem as well as web traffic for the domain steemit.com -both show a quite promising curve, the logic behind are several new Steemians and eventually also the ongoing Twitter poll by BTCC. I am pretty sure some tech SEO experts like 
1) Taking a look at Steemit.com
1a - Traffic Steemit.com
Some graphs are self explanatory I assume. This one shows that we are currently getting near again to the all-time traffic hight which has been around launch time last year - excellent sign!
1b - Visitors Steemit.com - US dominating
This graphic shows the top countries based on Steemit.com visitors. Given the platform is of US origin that country is still dominating together with English speaking countries such as Canada, UK and Australia. Germany is also one of the top countries for Steemit.com traffic according to the source rank2traffic - in the usual Alexa ranking we have India and South Korea in the Top 5 rankings - sure 
1c - Search traffic Steemit.com
Search traffic for "steemit.com also show an upward trend with a little dip recently, general trend is upwards.
1d - Traffic sources
This is one of the most interesting areas for recruiting purpose - where does most of traffic come from - as usual Google (given the global dominating nature as THE search engine) is top source followed by YouTube and Facebook.
This shows where we still can find new Steemians - it is important to use the related platforms to promote Steemit - surprised Twitter is still way behind - room for growth, using the current poll migth change that moving forward.
2) Taking a look at Steem
Above we took a closer look to the community steemit.com - via Google Trends I was trying to capture the search volume for the steem currency.
Trend for this search topic is also on the rise worldwide (see graph above) with the top countries searching steem being US and India! I scanned the trend for the last 12 months (worldwide) based on the interest over time. In addition I also checked some country trends, while US is on a major move up countries such as Germany and UK have a declining search volume.
Please note - these are the results of the search volume for keyword steem not for steemit.com or users of the platform.
*Sources used: Alexa, Rank2traffic, Google Trends