We are now six months into 2020 and it’s now time to look at the latest Second Life grid statistics. The key areas of focus is the main grid size, daily concurrency and signups.
Main Grid Size
The good news is that the total size of the main grid has grown since the start of the year. There has been more interest in private estates this year. Linden Lab have added more new Linden owned regions to the Bellisseria continent during the past six months. The YTD net loss for private estate regions has stayed pretty low at around 0.4% since March 2020.
In mid May 2020 the lab announced that there was limited availability of new Second Life regions going forward. It’s likely that things may pick up again in early Autumn 2020. Second Life is in the process of migrating from the old existing dedicated servers to a cloud hosting service. When that process is complete the lab will release the unlimited region capacity again.
Unfortunately, our current server systems cannot accommodate unlimited growth without adversely impacting that stability and performance. This means that region inventory in Second Life will be extremely limited and may not be readily available until early fall.
For those that follow Tyche Shepherd weekly posts on VirtualVerse Forums there has not been no weekly updates since 30th March 2020 on the latest grid numbers. Note that stats on this blog post are from the Second Life Grid Survey and from the VirtualVerse Forums.
Main Grid size as of 7th June 2020
- Total Main Grid Regions: 25, 160
- Private Estates: 16, 902
- Linden Owned: 8, 258
Breakdown
- General: 2, 648
- Moderate: 15, 745
- Adult: 6, 760
- Total Size: 1648.89KM
Main Grid size on 20th January 2020
- Total Main Grid Regions: 24, 147
- Private Estates: 16, 036
- Linden Owned: 8, 111
Breakdown
- General: 2, 830
- Moderate: 15, 059
- Adult: 6, 253
- Total Size: 1582.50KM
Previous Years Grid Stats
There are more regions in Second Life now than there was a few years ago or so. The lab have steadily added more and more Linden owned regions to the grid over the years which has made a positive difference to the grid numbers.
On 2nd June 2019
- Total Main Grid Regions: 24, 147
- Linden Owned: 8, 017
- Private Estates: 16, 130
On 30th December 2018
- Total Main Grid Regions: 23, 811
- Linden Owned: 7, 691
- Private Estates: 16, 120
18th March 2018
- Total Main Grid Regions: 23, 298
- Linden Owned: 7, 240
- Private Estates: 16, 058
31st December 2017
- Total Main Grid regions: 23, 332
- Total Linden Owned: 7, 226
- Total Private Estates: 16, 106
3rd January 2016
- Total number of Main Grid regions: 24, 886
- Linden Owned: 7, 111
- Private Estates: 17, 775
Daily Concurrency
The average daily concurrency for Second Life at the moment is between 30, 000min- 55, 000max at peak times. The maximum daily concurrency has not surpassed 60, 000 since late April 2020. During the past few months there has been more logging into Second Life probably due to the current health crisis the world is facing now.
- Maximum Daily Concurrency – 55, 000 (average peak)
- Median Daily Concurrency – 40, 400 (average)
- Minimum Daily Concurrency – 30, 000 (average)
Signups
As of the 12th of June 2020 there have been 63, 734, 666 signups for Second Life since launch of the platform.
My next statistics update will be made in late October 2020.
Daniel Voyager 