The total land area of the OpenSim public grid reached 131,880. This month, standard regions reached an all-time high, with an increase of 369 standard regions compared to the previous month. Meanwhile, the total number of registered users increased by more than 2,100, and the number of active users also increased by more than 2,200.
I currently track a total of 2,653 public grids, of which 316 are active and 251 have released 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.
Meet the Hypergrid Business Newsletter now
On the 15th of each month, shortly after the statistical report comes out, we will send out a newsletter containing all the OpenSim news from the previous month. You can subscribe here or fill out the form below.
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: 5,266 active users
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,042 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,200 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,035 active users
- GBG World: 2,006 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,427 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,236 active users
- AviWorlds: 1,151 active users
- Moonrose: 1,127 active users
- Littlefield: 1,095 active users
- Neverworld: 1,080 active users
- Trianon World: 901 active users
- Party destination grid: 844 active users
- Eureka World: 791 active users
- AvatarLife: 770 active users
- Craft World: 679 active users
- Astralia: 674 active users
- Jungle Friends Grid: 650 active users
- Resurrection: 644 active users
- Kitely: 634 active users
- Vivo Sim: 579 active users
- Secret Life: 573 active users
- Virtualife: 522 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 507 active users
- Herederos Grid: 482 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.
You can view all past OpenSim statistics, including opinion polls, dating back to 2009 here.
- Wolf territory grid: 30,016 regions
- OSgrid: 26,779 regions
- Kitely: 18,223 locations
- Zeta World: 11,734 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 9,903 locations
- Groovy Verses: 6,521 locations
- Discovery Grid: 5,109 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,553 locations
- Tag grid: 1,464 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 locations
- GBG World: 955 locations
- CandM World: 934 locations
- Virtual world grid: 916 regions
- ArtDestiny: 900 locations
- Third Rock Grid: 872 regions
- AviWorlds: 839 locations
- Friends Grid: 816 locations
- Kinky Haven: 653 locations
- Littlefield: 520 locations
- AvatarLife: 502 locations
- GorGrid: 430 regions
- Dream Nation: 395 locations
- Craft World: 391 locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- Neverworld: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 298 locations
- Open virtual world: 241 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 194 regions
- Counter Earth: 182 locations
- Adreans-World: 173 locations
- Cater & Friends: 165 locations
- MisFitz grid: 164 regions
- WestWorld Grid: 148 regions
- Germany World: 144 locations
- GerGrid: 140 locations
- OpenSim Fest: 140 locations
- Outworlds: 130 locations
- Galactic virtual: 127 regions
- Utopia Skye: 117 locations
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.