Please let me correct you here:
we saw that steem reached 1 mil users recently
Steem reached 1 million accounts recently, which is not equal to 1 million users since 1 user may own multipe accounts. We currently have ~60,000 active users per day which may be a better number to play with when talking about Steem users.
that looks concerning as per those numbers it looks each active user has 16 accounts on average. are you sure that is correct number ? i agree that active users will be less than total accounts but its way too much for me. i would also like to keep an eye on this number regularly it is one of the integral part that shows growth.
Yeah I know it doesn't look the way you exptected it to be :-)
Please notice that these ~60,000 active users don't necessarily need to be the very same each day. So the total of (different) active users per month is higher as you can see here.
The activity is decreasing since March which usually happens when the Steem price drops.
These one here for instance are very helpful in that context - notice the gap between the red and the green line (that's the missing retention), but: we have more than 400,000 active users in total with is ~40% of the total number of created accounts:
Source of the above included charts
I recommend you to follow these accounts that provide high professional statistics: @arcange, @penguinpablo, @paulag.
Knowledge = power :-))
Steem on!