This month, OpenSim’s total area is down by the equivalent of over 3,000 standard regions, total registered users are down by over 1,000, and monthly active users are down by 425 compared to the same time last month.
The regional loss is due to Discovery Grid not reporting regional totals for the month. In April, the grid reported 5,178 standard regional equivalents.
Additionally, several grids, including Kater and Friends, ProxyNet, Caribou Grid, and Resurgence, did not report statistics this month. All of these grids reported hundreds of active users earlier this year. If your grid has moved, please let us know at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
The numerical loss was not due to the closure of the 3rd Rock Grid yesterday. That grid has been active for the past four weeks and has been reporting statistics. That loss will show up in the statistics report next month.
The total land area of OpenSim’s public grid has reached 135,700. This month’s standard area is down from last month’s all-time high, but is still several times larger than the total land area of Second Life.
The biggest beneficiary in terms of land area was OSgrid, which gained 1,160 new standard region equivalents, retaining its position as the largest public grid in OpenSim. ZetaWorlds followed with 1,024 new regions, and Wolf Territories Grid with 384 new regions.
At the same time, the number of active users decreased to 47,195.
Wolf Territory Grid remains number one in traffic volume.
I am currently tracking a total of 2,661 OpenSim grids, of which 307 are active and 249 have published statistics this month. If there is a statistics page that I am not tracking, please email me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com so that your grid can be mentioned in this report each month, giving it more visibility to both search engines and users.
The following grids were added to the database this month: 3World, BachmansWorld One, Bridger, CyberDataStorm, Dark Heaven.
Also, we will no longer be sending out monthly email blasts to remind OpenSim grid owners to send us news and updates about this report. If you have news, please send us an email 10 days before each month to include a short item in this monthly summary. For longer news, please feel free to send us a press release.
Our statistics do not include many grids running on DreamGrid, a distribution of OpenSim, as DreamGrid tends 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 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.
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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: 5,904 active users
- OSgrid: 5,263 active users
- GBG World: 2,174 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,125 active users
- Alternative Metaverse: 2,001 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,462 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,419 active users
- Double Life: 1,222 active users
- Moonrose: 1,149 active users
- AviWorlds: 1,105 active users
- Neverworld: 1,086 active users
- Trianon World: 1,014 active users
- Littlefield: 993 active users
- Craft World: 965 active users
- AvatarLife: 940 active users
- Party Destination Grid: 845 Active Users
- Astralia: 773 active users
- Virtualife: 750 active users
- Kitely: 655 active users
- Germany World Grid: 623 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 618 active users
- Herederos Grid: 588 active users
- CandM World: 563 active users
- Groovy Verse: 505 active users
- Eureka World: 490 active users
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 from 2009 to present.
- OSgrid: 30,960 locations
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,928 Territories
- Kitely: 18,085 locations
- ZetaWorlds: 12,772 locations
- Alternative Metaverse: 9,811 Regions
- Groovy Verse: 7,864 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,546 locations
- German World Grid: 2,476 locations
- CandM World: 1,760 locations
- Tag Grid: 1,464 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 locations
- GBG World: 956 locations
- Virtual World Grid: 915 Regions
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 locations
- AviWorlds: 853 locations
- Friends Grid: 816 locations
- ArtDestiny: 784 locations
- Kinky Haven: 669 locations
- AvatarLife: 605 locations
- Littlefield: 514 locations
- Craft World: 471 locations
- GorGrid: 430 locations
- Tommy’s World: 400 Locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Neverworld: 344 locations
- DreamNation: 318 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 300 locations
- Open Virtual World: 241 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 194 locations
- Counter Earth: 186 locations
- MisFitz Grid: 181 locations
- Adreans-World: 173 locations
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- OpenSim Fest: 140 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 137 locations
- WestWorld Grid: 135 locations
- Outworlds: 127 locations
- Galactic Virtual: 127 locations
- Logicamp: 123 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are publicly available but not in our database? Please email us at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.