This time of year — at least in the Northern Hemisphere — temperatures are dropping and school is back in session, meaning people are starting to spend more time indoors.
It is therefore not surprising that the total number of active users on public OpenSim grids is growing.
According to published statistical reports, 44,129 people were active. That’s 1,128 more than at this time a month ago.
However, the total land area has decreased to the equivalent of 738 standard regions. All of this decrease and more is due to the fact that the single grid, CandM World, did not report statistics this month. Last month, there were over 1,800 regions. Today, the website only shows a security error message, so it may be a configuration error.
We are currently tracking a total of 2,675 public grids, of which 311 are active and 244 have published statistics this month. If you have a statistics page that we are not tracking, please email us at maria@hypergridbusiness.com so that your grid can be mentioned in this report each month, giving you more visibility both for search engines and users.
This month, OSgrid was the largest grid by land area with 34,103 standard regions equivalent, while Wolf Territories Grid was the most active with 6,950 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: 6,950 active users
- OSgrid: 4,894 active users
- GBG World: 2,422 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,143 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,018 active users
- Alternative Metaverse: 1,789 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,491 active users
- AviWorlds: 1,101 active users
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,024 active users
- Trianon World: 1,004 active users
- Neverworld: 953 active users
- Moonrose: 861 active users
- Littlefield: 858 active users
- Party Destination Grid: 792 Active Users
- Craft World: 790 active users
- Astralia: 717 active users
- AvatarLife: 638 active users
- Herederos Grid: 566 active users
- Groovy Verse: 564 active users
- SunEden Resort: 552 active users
- Great Canadian Grid: 550 active users
- Gentle Fire Grid: 496 active users
- Kitely: 495 active users
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 456 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 437 active users
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
Currently, Kitely Market has 21,019 product listings including 41,133 product variants, of which 35,892 are available for export.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 630 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.
New grid
We didn’t add any new grids to the database this month.
If you know of a missing public grid, please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
hanging grid
This month the following 12 grids are discontinued: BachmansWorld One, CatGrid, DigiGrids, German Grid, Legacy, Mathesis, Matrix, NewOffworld, Oczko, SFgrid, Steg and Trinity’s DreamGrid/
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: 34,103 locations
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,277 Territories
- Simulation Grid: 25,408 regions
- Kitely: 18,320 locations
- ZetaWorlds: 13,010 locations
- Alternative Metaverse: 10,605 Regions
- Groovy Verse: 8,380 locations
- Discovery Grid: 4,919 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,526 locations
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,284 Regions
- Tag Grid: 1,464 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,088 locations
- Friends Grid: 1,040 locations
- ArtDestiny: 961 locations
- GBG World: 960 locations
- Virtual World Grid: 914 Regions
- AviWorlds: 839 locations
- Craft World: 688 locations
- Kinky Haven: 677 locations
- AvatarLife: 587 locations
- Littlefield: 513 locations
- GorGrid: 428 locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Virtual World Zones: 364 locations
- Neverworld: 332 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 300 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 276 locations
- WestWorld Grid: 270 locations
- DreamNation: 264 regions
- Open Virtual World: 229 locations
- MisFitz Grid: 206 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 196 locations
- Cater & Friends: 193 locations
- Counter Earth: 190 locations
- Adreans-World: 170 locations
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- XTalent: 140 locations
- Outworlds: 132 locations
- Arcadia Exile: 123 locations
Do you know of any other grids that are publicly available but not in our database? Please email us at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.