A couple of days ago there was another official Steemit UI update and for me personally one of the most important new features was the addition of an official post view counter. This counter (the number after the eye icon on the bottom of your posts) shows the number of times people have read your blog post, so it is really important for the people that actually care how many people read their posts and are not interested ony in the votes and rewards they get.
As I have suspected the number of actual post views is pretty low, so low that in fact it can really be discouraging for authors that spend hours or even days preparing something and then seeing that just a few people actually have read their post... even if they do manage to get a decent reward on the post. Here is an example for one of my recent posts that has passed over 24 hours since being posted and was fully covered by the views counter - Adding an SSD Drive to an HP Microserver Gen8 Can be a Challenge. So far that post has received more than $14 SBD reward, 103 votes, 2 comments and JUST 7 views... so actually only 7 people read that post... I know it is a bit more specific, but just 7 people!
So I got on to the trending page to see what the most popular posts on Steemit do get in terms of post views along the reward and number of votes...
| Post | Votes | Reward | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Need Your Helping Hands for Hacked Steemit Member | 332 | $239.50 | 278 |
| Dakota Access Pipeline protestors win a victory - or do they? | 346 | $235.22 | 103 |
| Miss. Opinionated : You know what really grinds my gears? | 386 | $168.16 | 189 |
| Adapting to Market Signals - Steem Sports | 704 | $164.84 | 325 |
| [SFHL] Week 8 Preview w/participative Upvoting Rewards | 89 | $153.53 | 48 |
| SteemSports: [UEFA Champions League] Celtic F.C. v Manchester City F.C. - Mass SP Distribution Game! | 812 | $133.59 | 172 |
| $STEEM/BTC Daily Poloniex+Bittrex Technical Analysis / Market Report Update #121, Dec. 4, 2016. | 315 | $114.97 | 49 |
| $ICN/BTC Technical Analysis Dec. 4, 2016. | 320 | $114.74 | 48 |
| SteemSports: Toronto Raptors Vs Cleveland Cavaliers - Mass SP Distribution Game! | 758 | $107.76 | 113 |
| The Daily Curie (3rd Dec to 4th Dec 2016) | 529 | $103.33 | 56 |
The above table shows the top 10 trending posts at the moment... the number of views those "most popular" at the moment posts are getting is really disappointing considering that your posts are most likely not in the trending page and you should be getting even less views than them. It seems like Steemit still has the issue of a lot of users posting, a lot of bots voting, but quite a little number of people actually reading posts.
Getting very little views for posts is really what can be the deal breaker for a lot of people that are not writing just for the rewards, but just want to share some interesting information, experience, useful knowledge and want it to reach more readers!
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