I keep an eye on the available stats to see how the Steem platform is doing. One of these is the [Alexa rank](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/steemit.com) for the Steemit site. That is still the biggest front end by far, but the visitor numbers seemed to be falling for a while. If you use [Hypestat](https://hypestat.com/info/steemit.com) you can see details by country and this has been missing some big ones such as Japan, Germany, Spain and UK that were in the top few before. I have no idea why this is as pages for other sites show them.

![Hypestat](https://img.esteem.ws/uxcmq11y8q.png)

I have checked on other Steem sites. [Dtube](https://hypestat.com/info/dtube) is on the rise. Over 40% of visitors appear to come from the US, which seems high. But then for [Steempeak](https://hypestat.com/info/steempeak.com) Myanmar is top, just ahead of the US with those two accounting for most visits. I think these numbers are not totally reflective of reality.

[Another source](https://www.stateofthedapps.com/rankings/) of statistics is @Stateofthedapps which looks at actual blockchain data rather than relying on people running browser extensions. Steemit was top there for ages, but now it is Cosmochain, which seems to be all about beauty products and uses the Klaytn platform. It is only a few hundred users ahead of Steemit and we ought to be able to reclaim the top spot.

![State of the Dapps](https://img.esteem.ws/uzf1oh5ucq.png)

Steempeak is way down on that chart, but then it uses some algorithm that does not just depend on user numbers.

Overall Steem is a pretty small platform with just thousands of active users and not too much growth. So far the latest hardforks have not affected that much, but then I have seen very little press about it. 

It seems to be up to we users to get people talking about Steem on other social media. I posted about a band I like yesterday on Twitter and noticed they had used one of my pictures on their Facebook fan page, so they did look. I am okay with that. Just bringing a band with a few hundred fans to Steem could boost the activity considerably. We need people who are prepared to invest some time in a new platform which may not pay much to start with, unless the big accounts rush to support them. We need a range of content and not just posts about crypto. That audience is very limited.

Maybe we will get Steem communities this year and that will help. I wonder if there will be a big update to coincide with Steemfest.

We shall see...

I posted this through the eSteem mobile app and it truncated all the tags. Cannot change the first one.