Today, my friends and colleagues, I will share with you an optimistic statistics from SimilarWeb and Alexa in regards to, how well SteemIt is actually doing.

As you can see from this figure, the amount of visitors is growing quite fast in the last 3 months (not exponentially) but still from almost 19 mil in November to 48.5 mil in January visitors per month. Of course, the number of actual accounts is much smaller, however it still shows increasing interest towards the platform. High bounce Rate, in this case, could be related to Steemit's account registration process, so it shouldn't be used as an indicator in this case. (Waiting period before your account will be approved). It's important to point out that in SimilarWeb the Global Rank for Steemit is 1513th place and 1186th in US, however with Alexa's stats we will be observing slightly different picture.

According to Alexa, Steemit's Global Rank grew by 1096 positions in last 3 months, additionally they give 1079th place to Steemit Globally and 625th place in US. It is hard to tell which stats are more accurate, (Alexa stats are updated more often, but it still doesn't mean that their stats are better or more up-to date). I think it will be fair to calculate average numbers of both tools.

How do people get on Steemit? Well, that's a good question and you can find detailed information in the figure below.

No surprise here, most of the traffic comes and goes to crypto related sites/resources. I think this statistics demonstrates a huge potential which Steemit has and soon we will have even bigger amount of active users. I am also inclined to believe that next step for Steemit is to bring people, who are not cryptocurrency oriented, since Steemit is not only about crypto, it is also a Social Media. But of course, crypto HYPE is definitely helping Steemit to develop as technology and community.

Seeing those numbers, makes me imagine, how Steemit will look like when there will be x4 times or even x10 times more people involved. So, if for some reason you haven't invited all of your friends to register an account, please, DO THAT. And lets improve and develop Steemit together.

We all should contribute however we can. My idea was to make contests to attract new people with freebies and SBDs). Please, check Promoting Challenge and FREE SBD / Science Challenge #3. If you will invite your friends, then don't forget to tell them to participate too).

There are more interesting and engaging challenges to come, so stay tuned!