In June, July and parts of August last year, Europe competed head to head with the Americas in terms of traffic.

In late August this trend was broken with a sudden surge in US returning visitors at around roughly the time that Dollar Vigilante joined the platform.

This past month steemit has seen nice growth in East Asia, fueled mainly by growth in Korean(kr) visitors.

In the background Europe has been sneaking up on the Americas with a spike in the yellow line about a month ago and now for the last two weeks they are flirting heavily in Americas territory.

This may indicate a healthy return to last years competition between these two regions.

This is mainly being fueled out of Northern Europe with a little help from Western Europe.

This is in contrast to last year where the most dominant region was Eastern Europe.

The UK is dominating traffic out of Northern Europe and Germany is dominating the traffic out of Western Europe.

Along with these major centers we can see that traffic is widespread over all of Europe.

Asia continues to power ahead with Eastern Asia(Red) at All Time High's last week.

It's great to see that steemit is growing significantly more across two regions as the price of STEEM rises and continues to establish higher floors.

This is in spite of the fact that the rewards pool is still below its maximum and payouts are significantly reduced.

I suspect that we are going to see substantially higher user levels across all regions as the rewards pool continues to improve.

The upwards momentum that was stalled by the implementation of HF18 is back on track.

The overall trend is definitively up(about 25%) from the lows just before the one year anniversary and the all time lows in STEEM price.