Here are some important statistics and numbers about Steemit.com. In this analysis I will cover stats related to visits to the Steemit site, referrals, traffic from social media and other relevant numbers
How many people visit Steemit?
This statistic show the number of visits to the Steemit.com site
Stats
In the last 6 months there were 16.94 million visits on Steemit.com website (alas total and not unique visitors). On average the visitors stayed around for almost 7 minutes. The visitors looked at 4- 5 pages during their time on Steemit.
Why this is important
16.49M is a large number but these are not unique visits, still that are a lot of Steemians and non-steemians spending time on Steemit.
The time spent on Steemit per visit seems rather low but if we look at the pages per visit we can see that people take the time to look at almost 5 posts while they are on the site.
Where do they come from?
This statistic shows which countries the visits originate from.
Stats
Most visitors by far come from the US. Followed by the UK, Germany, Canada and the Republic of Korea. The Americans represent almost 30% of the total of visits.
Why this is important
Most visitors (and most likely Steemians) come from English speaking countries. This is something to consider when writing your posts.
How did they find Steemit?
This statistic shows from which destination the visitors came before they ended up visiting the Steemit.com site
Stats
More than 35% of the Steemit visits were direct, it is safe to assume that these are for the most part Steemians. Almost 12% of the visitors found their way to the site via a referral (link). A surprisingly large number searched the word "Steemit", probably because they heard about the site and wanted to find out for themselves what it is about. Almost 12% came from social media (seems that the promotions are working).
Why this is important
The visitors that found their way to Steemit through referrals and social media make up more than 50% of the total visits. This is a huge number. It looks like there is a lot of interest in the platform and this is generating traffic from search engines and other social media platforms.
Who is generating the Traffic?
This statistic shows where the referrals are coming from and where the visitors go after they leave the Steemit.com site.
Stats
Our biggest supplier of visitors is bitcointalk.org. The biggest surprise however is dtube in second place, almost 9% of the visitors first visited dtube and then came to Steemit. Steem.io is good for almost 7% of referrals but is down by almost 14%, just like bitcointalk.org for that matter. Cryptocompare.com and steemstats.com are at the bottom of the list around 4% each.
Why this is important
The percentage of referrals seems to be declining all over the board. The biggest decline is on cryptocompare.com (almost 30%). The big surprise however is dtube.video, good for almost 9% of the referrals.
What are they searching for?
These are the keywords people searched that lead them to the Steemit website.
Stats
Surprise, the no 1 keyword is Steemit, go figure. The rest of the keywords is quite surprising. 3.5% of the people who visited the site were looking for info about a neo wallet. Apparently a lot of people are also interested to find out if bitconnect is a scam.
Again dtube seems to be gaining popularity, more than 1% of people were googling (or binging) dtube. Finally a small percentage were having difficulty distinguishing Steam from Steemit.
Why this is important
The cryptocurrency subjects are bringing home the bacon. Neo Wallets and bitconnect are popular subjects on Steemit and responsible for generating some nice traffic from the search engines.
Dtube is doing very well as an organic keyword and my guess is that its popularity will only increase over time.
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Social media interest
This is the traffic originating from the social media sites.
Stats
Facebook accounts for more that 41% of the traffic coming from social media. Twitter also has a big impact with more than 20% and Youtube's share is about the same as Twitter's. Finally Reddit has a big chunk of the pie with 16% and the Russian social media site Vkontakte generates 0.5% of the referrals from social.
Why this is important
These are very interesting stats, the social media visitors come from 4 major platforms, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Reddit. These are also the platforms where our future fellow Steemians most likely will come from.
Youtube's 20% share of the referrals undoubtedly has to do a lot with the efforts by our fellow Steemian @jerrybanfield, he is bringing in a lot of cryptocurrency enthusiast with his Youtube videos.
My prediction is that this trend will continue and that the percentage of traffic from social media will increase. This will be one of the important things that will aid in Steemit's growth.
What are they interested in?
These are the interests of our visitors.
Stats
Finance (investing) is the main thing on the mind of the people coming to the Steemit web site, followed by Business. A small number comes to chat and for the news and media.
Why this is important
If you are looking for popular topics look no further. Investing is the no 1 topic people are interested in. Start posting your investment tips (into Steemit of course) now.
Conclusion
Looking at the Stats it looks like Steemit with the addition of Dtube is doing very well. The interest from other Social media sites is growing and this is what Steemit needs to grow even more.
What do you think? Let me know in the comment section.
Disclaimer the statistics were made on https://www.similarweb.com
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