All OpenSim statistics are up this month, with land area, active users, and registered users all up compared to mid-December 2024.
The public OpenSim grid’s land area increased by more than 100 standard area equivalents, active users increased by more than 600, and the grid reported more than 4,100 new registrations.
Active Users is the total number of unique visitors to your local and hypergrid grid. Registered users are people who have registered an account on the grid and are generally a positive sign of people’s commitment to the grid and an early indication of future land leases.
The numbers rose despite some grids not publishing statistics this month, including Moonrose, which had more than 900 activities in October. Additionally, the OpenSimulator Community Conference Grid lost nearly 300 active participants since it hosted its annual conference a month ago, and that traffic is now gone.
I am currently tracking a total of 2,670 public grids, of which 300 were active this month and 246 have published statistics. If you have a statistics page that you do not want to track, please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com. The grid will then be mentioned in this report each month to provide additional visibility to both search engines and users.
This month, OSgrid was the largest grid with 35,873 new regions, equivalent to 35,873 standard regions, while Wolf Territories Grid was the most active, with 7,932 unique visitors over the last 30 days.
Our statistics do not include most grids running on DreamGrid, a free and easy-to-use version of OpenSim. Because these grids tend to be private grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source virtual world platform, similar to Second Life, that allows non-technical people to quickly and inexpensively 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 minded, or another distribution, with commercial hosting starting at less than $5 per region. It works.
A list of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here and learn where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
Discovery Grid is leaving OpenSim for a new virtual world platform.
Discovery Grid is still being shut down, but some people are still visiting it, probably as part of the process of migrating everything.
You can read more details 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 more crowded the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Sellers looking to sell content go to the grid with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the largest audience – you get the idea.
The top 25 most popular grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,932 active users
- OSgrid: 4,743 active users
- GBG World: 2,512 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,277 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,253 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,068 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,531 active users
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,451 active users
- AvatarLife: 1,041 active users
- Trianon World: 998 active users
- Neverworld: 922 active users
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 915 active users
- AviWorlds: 871 active users
- Littlefield: 825 active users
- Party Target Grid: 811 active users
- NakedWorldz: 797 active users
- Groovy Verse: 689 active users
- Eureka World: 570 active users
- Craft World: 556 active users
- Herederos Grid: 546 active users
- Astralia: 541 active users
- Gentle Fire Grid: 512 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 495 active users
- Vivo Sim: 478 active users
- Kitely: 456 active users
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
Currently, Kitely Market has 20,965 product listings with 41,071 product variants, of which 35,833 are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 637 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 (green area in the graph). The red zone for non-exportable content has remained at the same level for the past eight years.
Last month, the numbers dropped slightly.
“Unfortunately, several of our stores have ceased operations because their owners passed away a long time ago, leaving us unable to transfer sales revenue to them,” said Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner. Hypergrid business. “In most cases, we don’t do this because the next of kin will take over the account and either close it themselves or update their PayPal payment address so that we can keep that account active and transfer that store’s earnings to them. .”
This is a reminder to all of us to prepare our online accounts, especially those that generate revenue.
Kitely Market is the largest collection of legal content available on OpenSim. You can access both hypergrid-enabled grids and closed private grids. Instructions on how to configure Kitely Market for a closed grid are available here.
new grid
The following grids were added to the database this month: BloodMoon, Doghouse, Gaming Friends, Life Grid, Medieval Fantasy, New Horizon, SpaceGrid, The Hub Grid, and Xenolandia.
If you know of a missing public grid, please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
hanging grid
The following grids were marked as suspended this month: 3World, CyberCity, CyberDataStorm, Eenhgrid, KittyBlue, Mysterious Grid 2, SunEden Resort, Virtual Gay Pride, and Virtual Grid.
If it doesn’t come back online soon, future reports will show it as closed.
In some cases, Grid changes the login URI or website address. If this happens, please let us know by email so we can update our database.
Top 40 grids by land area
All region numbers in this list are based on standard regions whenever possible. Active user counts include Hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
Many schools, companies or private grids do not make their numbers public.
The raw data for this month’s report is available here. A list of all active grids is here. Below is a list of all HyperGrid supported grids and their HyperGrid addresses, sorted by popularity. This is very useful when creating hyperports.
You can view all past OpenSim statistics, including opinion polls, dating back to 2009 here.
- OSgrid: 35,873 regions
- Wolf Territory Grid: 30,054 locations
- Kitely: 18,179 locations
- Zeta World: 13,081 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,696 locations
- Groovy Verse: 8,810 locations
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 6,215 regions
- DigiWorldz: 3,477 locations
- CandM World: 2,154 locations
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 locations
- Tag grid: 1,465 locations
- Friends Grid: 1,168 locations
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 locations
- GBG World: 959 locations
- Virtual world grid: 914 regions
- AviWorlds: 827 locations
- Craft World: 765 locations
- Kinky Haven: 685 locations
- AvatarLife: 593 locations
- Littlefield: 514 locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 367 locations
- Virtual World Zones: 364 locations
- Neverworld: 356 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 300 locations
- Coconut Migration: 247 locations
- Open virtual world: 229 locations
- MisFitz grid: 213 regions
- Cater & Friends: 204 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 199 regions
- Counter Earth: 198 locations
- Adreans-World: 175 locations
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 166 locations
- SpaceGrid: 159 regions
- Utopia Sky: 157 locations
- XTalent: 147 locations
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- Outworlds: 125 locations
- Logic Camp: 124 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.