The disappointing performance of the crypto markets in January and February apparently made many Bitcoin traders avoid shaking their eyes with their exchange balances. Estimates show that trafficking on bitcoin trading sites, based on traffic statistics, shows a steep decline from one month to the next.
Site visits have taken it down
The total number of visits to big bitcoin sites and cryptocurrency exchanges collapsed in February. Generally, if we look at the top ten top exchanges, site traffic appears to have peaked in December 2017 and early January 2018. It fell to half in February, reaching an approximately equal or lower figure for November, for each site.
According to Similarweb, the market research service, the total number of visits to the Coinbase site fell 49 percent in February, from 123.5 million to 63.1 million. Maxim reached them in December last year, with 169.5 million.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/coinbase.comKraken also saw a substantial 56% decline from 31.7 million in January to 13.8 million in February.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/kraken.com#overviewBinance declined 54% from a peak of 191.5 million to just 87.3 million.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/binance.com#overviewBitfinex dropped 48% in February, only 18.3 million visits, compared with 35.4 million in January and 59.3 million in December.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/bitfinex.comThe number of bitcoin transactions has decreased
The factor that caused these decreases in the number of visits is quite obvious. Poor performance in all major cryptocurrency in the first two months of 2018. In addition, massive rallying in 2017 has probably brought a record number of new investors to the ecosystem at the end of last year. A fairly high standard was set, which was hard to reach in the months to come.
Web traffic data seems to corroborate the assumption that a similar decrease can be seen in the number of transactions. Until the end of February, we had just under 200,000 bitcoin transactions a day on average, compared with almost half a million bitcoin transactions sent daily in mid-December. The bulk of the glass is that a less crowded market is finally able to lower commission costs.