You can see that both had good initial growth, but have plateaued and may be dropping a bit since the start of the year.
It's a 90 day moving average. As a result, a recent increase in traffic is not likely to be registered as an uptick in the graphic but rather an uptick in the slope of the graph (which can be seen for hive.blog at least).
Three years ago Steemit managed an Alexa rank of under 1000 and that may have been when STEEM was a top ten coin. We're nowhere near that now with Hive, but there is a lot more competition. Hive is looking like an also-ran rather than a winner and I just wonder if we can turn that around.
We are recovering from a major reset, especially wrt brand recognition, we can only compare ourselves to post-fork Hive. I agree with you that competition in the space is getting tougher. And yet, I couldn't pick a stronger project if you asked me to, and right now I feel more confident in Hive than I felt in either Steem or Hive for years (primarily because we have gotten inflation under control, the biggest issue nobody was talking about), but also dozens of other 'little problems' have been eliminated recently.
Good to hear you are confident. I think Hive has a lot going for it, but as for 'brand recognition' the name is not great. Just try googling it. At least I could find articles about Steem/Steemit.
Yes I agree, it's terrible. I liked the name 'Hive' at first, but it didn't take long to realize that it is truly awful for discovery, SEO etc.
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