The total land area of OpenSim's public grid reached 138,831. Standard areas hit an all-time high this month, marking the fourth consecutive month OpenSim land areas have broken this record. This means that the number of regions has increased by more than 5,000 compared to last month.
OSgrid, which had the largest increase in terms of land area, regained its top slot from the Wolf Territories Grid with 2,655 new locations.
The number of concurrently active users is Another record was set at 47,620, with the number of active people increasing by more than 2,000 compared to the previous month. Here, Wolf Territories maintained its leading position after gaining 307 new active users.
Meanwhile, the total number of locally registered users in OpenSim increased by more than 2,000, led by AvatarLife with 521 new registrations.
I currently track a total of 2,657 public power grids, of which 313 are active and 247 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.
The following grids were added to the database this month: Nordlicht Grid and Royal Grid.
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:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,578 active users
- OSgrid: 5,250 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,168 active users
- GBG World: 2,112 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,996 active users
- Darkheart's Playground: 1,680 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,384 active users
- Moonrose: 1,202 active users
- AvatarLife: 1,133 active users
- Trianon World: 1,088 active users
- Secret Life: 1,062 active users
- Neverworld: 1,011 active users
- Littlefield: 996 active users
- AviWorlds: 987 active users
- Party destination grid: 861 active users
- Craft World: 780 active users
- Astralia: 703 active users
- Eureka World: 654 active users
- Virtualife: 636 active users
- Kitely: 612 active users
- Herederos Grid: 600 active users
- Resurrection: 590 active users
- Friend Grid: 583 active users
- German World Grid: 567 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 547 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.
- OSgrid: 29,800 locations
- Wolf Territory Grid: 28,544 locations
- Kitely: 18,151 locations
- Zeta World: 11,748 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,208 locations
- Groovy Verse: 8,121 locations
- Discovery Grid: 5,178 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,572 locations
- German World Grid: 2,476 regions
- CandM World: 1,595 locations
- Tag grid: 1,464 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 locations
- GBG World: 953 locations
- Virtual world grid: 916 regions
- Third Rock Grid: 872 regions
- AviWorlds: 859 locations
- Friends Grid: 816 locations
- ArtDestiny: 784 locations
- Kinky Haven: 669 locations
- AvatarLife: 589 locations
- Littlefield: 516 locations
- GorGrid: 430 regions
- Tommy's World: 400 locations
- Craft World: 390 locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Dream Nation: 318 regions
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 300 locations
- Neverworld: 291 locations
- Open virtual world: 241 locations
- Cater & Friends: 187 locations
- Counter Earth: 187 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 184 regions
- Adreans-World: 173 locations
- MisFitz Grid: 172 locations
- WestWorld Grid: 149 regions
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- OpenSim Fest: 140 locations
- Outworlds: 127 locations
- Galactic virtual: 127 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.