ever since January, where we hit a low, the transactions per day have never been as high as they are now.
the number of unique addresses used is ~30% up from december 2013
miners are struggling making a profit with these prices (so difficulty is lagging behind)
why is the price lagging behind so much?
it has every reason to rise, and yet is doesn't.
It is hard for investors to fund their accounts for bitcoin trading due to banks that are terminating them for being bitcoin related,
and the number of transactions was never directly linked to bitcoin price.
Take a look at
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitcoin.org , it will show you decline of interest of new people in bitcoin.
cheers