The total land area of the OpenSim public grid reached 132,969. Standard areas hit an all-time high this month, marking the third consecutive month OpenSim land areas have broken records.
There was an increase of 1,089 cases per standard area compared to last month. Meanwhile, the total number of registered users increased by more than 1,338. However, the number of active users fell by more than 2,100, partly due to grid outages. For example, ProxyNet, which reported over 400 active users last month, went down this month. Two other grids, including Vivo Sim and Darkheart’s Playground, which have reported over 500 active drops each, may have database issues.
I currently track a total of 2,654 public power grids, of which 308 are active and 244 have published statistics this month. 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.
Additionally, I will no longer be sending out a monthly email reminding OpenSim grid owners to send me news and updates about this report. If you have any news, please email me before the 10th of each month if you’d like a short item included in this monthly summary. If you want a longer story, feel free to send us a press release.
Our statistics do not include many of the grids running on DreamGrid, the OpenSim distribution, as these 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’s possible.
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.
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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:
- OSgrid: 5,276 active users
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,271 active users
- GBG World: 2,221 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,138 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,971 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,342 active users
- AvatarLife: 1,196 active users
- Moonrose: 1,111 active users
- Littlefield: 1,000 active users
- Neverworld: 989 active users
- AviWorlds: 972 active users
- Party Target Grid: 879 active users
- Secret Life: 864 active users
- Trianon World: 848 active users
- Craft World: 750 active users
- Astralia: 678 active users
- Eureka World: 658 active users
- Kitely: 650 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 632 active users
- Virtualife: 618 active users
- The City: 553 active users
- Small Metropolis: 553 active users
- Resurrection: 550 active users
- Jungle Friends Grid: 518 active users
- Herederos Grid: 511 active users
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.
All past OpenSim statistics, including opinion polls, dating back to 2009 can be found here.
- Wolf Territory Grid: 28,496 locations
- OSgrid: 27,145 regions
- Kitely: 18,216 locations
- Zeta World: 11,687 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 9,995 regions
- Groovy Verse: 7,896 locations
- Discovery Grid: 5,094 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,543 locations
- CandM World: 1,579 locations
- Tag grid: 1,464 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 locations
- GBG World: 952 locations
- Virtual world grid: 916 regions
- Third Rock Grid: 872 regions
- AviWorlds: 854 locations
- Friends Grid: 816 locations
- ArtDestiny: 784 locations
- Kinky Haven: 653 locations
- AvatarLife: 577 locations
- Littlefield: 515 locations
- GorGrid: 430 regions
- Tommy’s World: 400 locations
- Craft World: 387 locations
- Dream Nation: 378 locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Neverworld: 311 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 298 locations
- Open virtual world: 241 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 196 regions
- Counter Earth: 183 locations
- Cater & Friends: 173 locations
- Adreans-World: 167 locations
- MisFitz grid: 164 regions
- WestWorld Grid: 148 regions
- Germany World: 144 regions
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- OpenSim Fest: 140 locations
- Galactic virtual: 127 regions
- Outworlds: 126 locations
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.