My last post on Second Life statistics was published in early April 2013 during the spring update. Check out the updated summer update on Second Life statistics since April 2013. I would love to know what you think in comments! 🙂
Total Regions
Since early April 2013 it appears the total amount of regions in Second Life is still slowly declining and private estates will soon be under the 20, 000 regions mark if rates continue. Somehow there needs to be more interest in Second Life in the coming months and hopefully with new improvements coming to Second Life things may pick up again before the end of the year.
According to Tyche Shepherd on 30th June 2013 the grid is down by 959 regions since 30th December 2012 which is a 4.6% drop. This time last year the grid was down by 1, 230 regions with a 5.2 decline rate.
Graph shows the weekly net change in number of regions since 30th December 2012
Hypergrid Business reported in mid June 2013 that Opensim grids had passed Second Life in land area which was predicted to happen one day. This suggests people are finding OpenSim grids better than Second Life in many ways and find OpenSim grids more interesting than ever before. Many are predicting we won’t see good SL growth in regions again until the economies of the world fully recover sometime before 2020.
On 5th December 2012
- Total Main Grid regions: 28, 290
- Total Area (km²): 1854.01
- Private Estates: 21, 200
- Linden Owned: 7, 090
On 2nd April 2013:
- Total Main Grid regions: 27, 570
- Total Area (km²): 1806.83
- Private Estates: 20, 482
- Linden owned: 7, 088
As of 2nd July 2013:
- Total Main Grid regions: 27, 144
- Total Area (km²): 1778.91
- Private Estates: 20, 033
- Linden owned: 7, 111
Graph showing main grid total regions from 31st October 2008 to 30th June 2013
Graph showing private estate regions between 31st October 2008 to 30th June 2013
SL daily concurrency levels
- Maximum Daily Concurrency seems to be reaching 56, 000 to 58, 000 at peak times during the last 3 months. Below the 60, 000 mark its staying at the moment.
- Minimum Daily Concurrency seems to holding around the 29, 000 to 32, 000 mark during the last 3 months.
- Median Daily Concurrency seems to be around 41, 000 to 45, 000 during the last 3 months.
Graph showing the historical daily concurrency from 5th December 2009 to 30th June 2013. On average the SL daily concurrency is now between 29, 000 to 58, 000 at peak times.
SL sign ups
At the start of 2013 sign ups were reaching 16, 000+ and then there was a rather huge surge in signups during April 2013 to 17, 000 sign ups every day. According to Dwell On It signup graphs there is around 12, 000 to 13, 000 new sign ups every day for Second Life at the moment.
My next SL statistics blog post will be in the first week October 2013 for the winter update.
Daniel Voyager 