Making invisible visible: daily active users, active authors, content and social network metrics

Changelog

This is a version 0.22 of my daily reports designed to be a comprehensive source of Steem metrics.

The most notable change: Steempunks.com launched

• Due to lauch of Steempunks I've removed most charts from daily reports to highlight only key fundamental metrics of STEEM: number of new posts, social network activity, active stakeholder and new accounts.
• I've also decided to remove price from all charts to prevent accidental confusion about the relative volatily of price ($0.1 in June to $4.34 max to ~$0.15 now) and metrics similar to the number of daily posts (100 in June - 4800 max - 900 now).
• Readded: Top comments by payouts rating
• Planned: combine follows, reblogs into a general social network activity metric.
• Planned: explore other fundamental metrics that are important for understanding Steem.
• Planned: a more understandable daily payout distribution.
• Planned: several new rating tables for finding anomalies and spotting outliers
• Planned: new metrics for posts with number of comments, reblogs, upvotes and outliers removed.

Disclaimer

The data and visualization in this post may contain errors and inaccuracies. Don't make important decisions without verifying data yourself. If you have any suggestions or found an error in the data, please get in touch with me on steemit.chat.

Active Human* Stakeholders

• "User" is a misnomer for an active Steem account. Users, as defined in online analytics and startup metrics, doesn't have a monetary stake in the platform. "Stakeholder" seems to be a more descriptive term. Also, a majority of active Steem accounts are authors, a majority of active Wordpress (for comparison) users are readers and lurkers.
• These charts provide data on long (since 2016/06/01) and medium (last 30 days) term active stakeholders (defined as those who has made at least one resteem, following, post or comment) and price. These actions do not necessarily indicate human control of an account.
• Baselines: Max, min and avg for the 30d active users metric.

User acquisition

Chart is based on number of new accounts grouped by the created date. Only accounts that posted, commented or voted at least once are included are counted towards the total. Max, min and avg baselines are provided for the 30d new users twmetric.

Social Network

• Follows per user: number of `follow` operations made by all Steem accounts divided by the number of active users. Grouped by date. `Follow` operations made by top 1% users by count of daily follows are removed as outliers.
• Reblogs per user: number of `reblog` operations made by all Steem accounts divided by the number of active users. Grouped by date. Reblogs made by top 1% users by count of daily reblogs are removed as outliers.

Content

• Only posts with >=2 votes are included in the totals.

Steeem posts and comments ratings

Special Reports

• The Great Steem Comment Payout Collapse Report
• Steem Users and Whales Time of Day Activity Report
• Steem Cohort Payouts Analysis Report

Resteem this post to increase awareness and understanding of key Steem metrics among Steem users

Notes

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License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

You're welcome to translate and publish this report in other languages on Steem and keep all rewards. You're also welcome to use the charts and data for your own analysis. Drop me a comment and I'll add a link to your post.