I've been noticing lately that comments, votes and followers have been way down on my account over the last few weeks. I've been noticing this seems to be the case for a lot of the other people I follow too. So decided to search the internet for some stats to back up my theory and found these charts. Apparently there's not a lot of new charts out their because the chart area of Steemd.com has been down for months.
As you can see from the charts new traffic is way down since the summer. I assume this is the case for overall traffic, posts, votes, etc too.
So why is traffic down at Steemit?
I think the disappointing price of Steem might be the main cause of this because people would rather invest their time elsewhere than a cypto that has flat lined.
There's also a few things I've noticed lately that are discouraging as well like the stability of the network. Just this morning I was unable to get on Steemit because it was down. This seems to have become a weekly problem and vote response times are horrible now. You click on the vote button and it spins for what seems like a minute or two and about half the time that happens you need to re-click the vote button because it was unsuccessful. The shitty performance/experience is the type of thing that kills new users being excited about a platform and doesn't make you want to spend more time on the platform.
I hope this is just growing pains and the guys and Steemit are working on a solution because the overall ranking on Alexa for Steemit look pretty damn good. I think we around the top 2000 websites which is awesome but performance is a big issue right now.
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