Thanks to ALL of you, Steemit is growing fast!
We reached 18,66mn visits in October ALONE.
There is an important difference between total visitors to a site and unique ones. In this case the 18.66mn include the multiple times a person visited the website. Therefore, as a good Steemian you probably connect everyday which will make you count for a total of 30 visits.
Therefore, how many "unique users" does Steemit has?
This is a very important question that I will try to answer later on.
I] Traffic
Daily Steemit Traffic
The number of Daily visits was quite consistent between 400k and 600k in August and September. It has been improving in October at 600k+.
When we think about it this is quite surprising considering the number of network issues we have experienced in October (DDOS attacks…).
Steemit website is ranked 2,175 worldwide vs 2,154 last month
Steemit is ranked 1,641 in the US vs 1,541 last month
Steemit kept on improving its ranking as it ranked 12,000+ last year.
Google Trends
Google Trend is an Indice based on 100, which means that 100 represents the week when most people searched for "Steemit" on Google.
Steemit Traffic share by country
The Top 5 countries share went down in October compared to September. It means that other countries are joining into the platform, which is very good for Steemit. It is truly becoming a global platform.
India did not appear in the Top 5 last month and now is ranked at the 4th place. South Korea dropped out of the Top5.
In the Top 5, the strongest traffic growth came from India with +45,44% visits!
Mobile Traffic is catching up fast as it represents 43.22% of the total visits
This is useful to know how people use the Steem platform. Initiatives like eSteem (mobile app), busy.org, Zappl (Twitter like), utopian-io… will probably help the community to grow on mobile phones.
Be Careful with the Number of Visits
Also, remember that if you connect from a different device (home/work computer, mobile phone, tablet) you'll count as a "new visitor" on each of these devices.
So as an example, let's say you connected at home, at work and in the subway. You would represent 3 visits out of these 600k+ Daily Visits.
II] Marketing Mix
Organic Search is still improving and represents 42% of the incoming Traffic. This is an increase +4% compared to September. Organic search is when people research on Google.
As the number of quality bloggers on Steemit increase, our content has a higher probability of being listed in Google's Top results.
Different Channels:
- Direct: When you type in you Web browser www.steemit.com
- Mail: When you connect to steemit.com through an e-mail link
- Referrals: When you connect to steemit.com through a link found on another website (github...)
- Social: When you connect to Steemit through a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram... page or link
- Organic Search: When you type a search term like "Crypto" on Google and you click on one of the following steemit link proposed to you
Traffic Share Evolution during the last months
Referring Social Pages
Facebook represents 39.6% of all the social platform incoming traffic. Reddit is also a strong source of new visits on the Steemit Platform
5 most searched terms on Google that lead to Steemit.com
What are Steemians main interests?
III] Steemit website metrics
You feel a bit confused about these 3 metrics? Let me explain.
- Bounce Rate is the % of people that leave the Website after just navigating on a single Webpage. The lower, the Better
- Daily Pageviews per Visitor is the average number of pages a visitor opens. The Higher, the Better
- Daily Time on Site is the full time a visitor spend on the website before closing the internet Webpage. The Higher the Better
My October assumptions
- Total visits to Steemit.com: 18,66mn
- Assumption of Total unique visitors in September: 4.8mn
- Assumption of Total Daily unique visitors: 300-350k
This is a collective achievement and I would like to congratulate all of us!
What do you think of this Steemit Big Data Update? Please let me know in the comment section.
Sources: Alexa, SimilarWeb, Google Trends...