OpenSim active users increase. 1,039 This month, a new all-time high of 48,234 was reached. Total land area also increased to 489 standard area equivalents.
However, the total number of registered users across all public OpenSim grids has decreased by more than 10,000 since May. The biggest reason for the decrease? 3rd Rock Grid has officially closed and some of its community has moved to ZetaWorlds. Last month, 3rd Rock Grid reported 13,615 registered users, but only 250 active users. 3rd Rock was one of the oldest OpenSim venues, founded in 2008, and has accumulated a lot of user registrations over the past decade and a half.
Several other grids, including CandM World, did not report any statistics this month. CandM World was active this month but did not display any statistics on the statistics page. This grid had over 500 activities in May.
We are currently tracking a total of 2,663 public grids, of which 309 are active and 253 have published statistics this month. If you have a statistics page that we are not tracking, please email us at maria@hypergridbusiness.com and we will make sure your grid is mentioned in this report each month, increasing your visibility to both search engines and users.
This month, OSgrid was the largest grid by land area with 32,547 standard regions equivalent, while Wolf Territories Grid was the most active with 6,232 unique logins in the last 30 days.
Our statistics do not include most grids running on DreamGrid, a free and easy-to-use version of OpenSim, as these are typically personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform similar to Second Life that allows non-technical people to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on their servers for free using DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for the more technically adept, or other distributions, with commercial hosting starting at less than $5 per location.
A list of OpenSim hosting providers is available here. Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here and find out where to get OpenSim world or local content here.
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Top 25 grids by active users
For general purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is that the busier the better. People looking to make new friends will go to the grid that already has the most users. Merchants looking to sell content will go to the grid with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the biggest audience will get the idea.
The 25 most popular grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,232 active users
- OSgrid: 5,186 active users
- GBG World: 2,239 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,156 active users
- Alternative Metaverse: 2,025 active users
- Double Life: 1,750 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,694 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,650 active users
- Neverworld: 1,101 active users
- AviWorlds: 1,068 active users
- Trianon World: 1,023 active users
- Moonrose: 936 active users
- AvatarLife: 930 active users
- Littlefield: 899 active users
- Party Destination Grid: 839 Active Users
- Astralia: 836 active users
- Craft World: 791 active users
- Virtualife: 666 active users
- Virtualife: 664 active users
- Kitely: 627 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 596 active users
- Eureka World: 583 active users
- Groovy Verse: 514 active users
- Herederos Grid: 511 active users
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 507 active users
The biggest change on this list was the addition of a new grid to the database, Virtual Vista Metaverse, which has been well-received since its release.
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
Currently, Kitely Market has 20,793 product listings including 40,862 product variants, 35,648 of which are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 624 OpenSim grids to date.
As you can see in the chart above, almost all of Kitely Market’s growth has come from content that can be exported to other grids. This is the green area on the graph. The red area of non-exportable content has remained flat for the past eight years.
The Kitely Market is the largest collection of legal content available for OpenSim. It is accessible for both HyperGrid-enabled and closed private grids. Instructions on how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are available here.
Recently, Kitely doubled its performance in that area while keeping prices the same.
New grid
The following grids were added to the database this month: Lady’s Dreamworld and Virtual Vista Metaverse.
If you know of a missing public grid, please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
hanging grid
This month, the following 18 grids were marked as discontinued: Admeja, Bernicia, BigOne, Bubble Grid, EducaSim, Eleutherias, Golden Palace Gaming, KittyBlue, Mystic Bermuda, Pleasant Retreat, Resurgence, Royal Grid, Starfleet, The Crying Grid, Tropicana Grid, Twilight, Uzuri Virtual, VR Playground.
If it doesn’t come back online in the near future, it will be marked as closed in future reports.
Grid may change the login URI or website address. If so, please notify us by email and we will update the database.
Top 40 grids by land area
All area numbers in this list are based on standard area equivalence where possible. Active user counts include HyperGrid visitors where possible.
Many schools, companies, or personal grids do not publish their numbers.
Here is the raw data for this month’s report. Here is a list of all active grids. And here is a list of all HyperGrid-enabled grids and HyperGrid addresses, sorted by popularity. This is very useful when creating HyperPorts.
Here you can see all past OpenSim statistics, including polls and surveys going back to 2009.
- OSgrid: 32,547 locations
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,248 Territories
- Kitely: 18,077 locations
- ZetaWorlds: 12,910 locations
- Alternative Metaverse: 10,178 Regions
- Groovy Verse: 7,837 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,544 locations
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,253 Regions
- Tag Grid: 1,464 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 locations
- GBG World: 956 locations
- Virtual World Grid: 915 Regions
- AviWorlds: 842 locations
- Friends Grid: 816 locations
- ArtDestiny: 784 locations
- Kinky Haven: 669 locations
- Craft World: 642 locations
- AvatarLife: 603 locations
- Littlefield: 514 locations
- GorGrid: 430 locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Neverworld: 343 locations
- DreamNation: 314 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 300 locations
- Open Virtual World: 229 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 186 locations
- Counter Earth: 186 locations
- MisFitz Grid: 182 locations
- Carter and Friends: 180 locations
- Adreans-World: 173 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 168 locations
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- OpenSim Fest: 140 locations
- WestWorld Grid: 135 locations
- Logicamp: 129 regions
- Galactic Virtual: 127 locations
- Outworlds: 126 locations
- XTalent: 124 locations
- Utopia Sky: 116 locations
Do you know of any other grids that are publicly available but not in our database? Please email us at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.