The full land space in OpenSim fell this month by over 3,000 normal area equivalents, the overall variety of registered customers fell by simply over 1,000, and the variety of energetic month-to-month customers dropped by 425 in comparison with this time final month.
The area loss was resulting from the truth that Discovery Grid didn’t report its area totals this month. In April, the grid reported 5,178 normal area equivalents.
As well as, a number of grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with Kater and Friends, ProxyNet, Caribou Grid, and Resurgence. Every of those grids has reported a whole bunch of energetic customers earlier this yr. If the grid has moved, please let me know at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
The numerical losses weren’t resulting from 3rd Rock Grid’s closure yesterday, since that grid nonetheless confirmed up as energetic for the previous 4 weeks and did report its stats. Its loss will present up in subsequent month’s stats report.
The full land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 135,700 normal areas this month, down from final month’s all-time excessive — and nonetheless a number of instances greater that the overall land space of Second Life.
The most important gainer by way of land space was OSgrid, which gained 1,160 new normal area equivalents, sustaining its standing as the most important public grid in OpenSim. It was adopted in development numbers by ZetaWorlds with 1,024 new areas and Wolf Territories Grid with 384 new areas.
On the identical time, the variety of energetic customers dropped to 47,195.
Wolf Territories Grid retained their first-place place by site visitors numbers.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,661 OpenSim grids, of which 307 had been energetic, and 249 printed their statistics this month. If in case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that method, your grid can be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each serps and customers.
The next grids had been added to our database this month: 3World, BachmansWorld One, Bridger, CyberDataStorm, and Dark Heaven.
Additionally, I’m now not sending out a month-to-month e-mail blast reminding OpenSim grid homeowners to ship me information and updates for this report. If in case you have information, please e-mail me earlier than the tenth of the month in order for you a brief merchandise included on this month-to-month wrap-up. For longer information, be happy to ship me press releases at any time.


Our stats don’t embrace lots of the grids operating on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically personal grids.
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Prime 25 grids by energetic customers
Relating to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new mates search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers searching for the most important viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,904 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 5,263 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,174 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,125 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,001 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,462 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,419 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,222 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,149 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,105 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,086 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,014 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 993 energetic customers
- Craft World: 965 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 940 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 845 energetic customers
- Astralia: 773 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 750 energetic customers
- Kitely: 655 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 623 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 618 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 588 energetic customers
- CandM World: 563 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 505 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 490 energetic customers
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, each time obtainable, by way of normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embrace hypergrid guests each time potential.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The raw data for this month’s report is here. A list of all active grids is here. And here’s a list of all the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 30,960 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,928 areas
- Kitely: 18,085 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,772 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 9,811 areas
- Groovy Verse: 7,864 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,546 areas
- German World Grid: 2,476 areas
- CandM World: 1,760 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 956 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 areas
- AviWorlds: 853 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 605 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- Craft World: 471 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Tomi’s World: 400 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 344 areas
- DreamNation: 318 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 194 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 181 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 137 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- Outworldz: 127 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
- Logicamp: 123 areas
Are you aware of some other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.