We are now six months into 2021 and it’s time to look back at the Second Life daily concurrency levels so far this year. As you can see in the graph above 2021 has been mostly been steady in terms of the daily active users in Second Life with no major high peaks. There have been various drops in the overall active users counts due grid issues though.
At the start of the year I did think the daily maximum count may surpass the 60, 000 mark but that has not happened yet. It got closer to the 60, 000 mark back in late March 2021 and you know there could be a good chance it may happen later this year.
2021 Highs & Lows
- Highest peak so far in 2021 > 57, 746 – 24th March 2021
- Lowest drop so far in 2021 > 19, 842 – 31st March 2021
Breakdown – As of 30th May 2021
- Maximum Daily Concurrency – 53, 000 (average peak)
- Median Daily Concurrency – 40, 000 to 42, 000 (average)
- Minimum Daily Concurrency – 30, 000 (average)
Daily Concurrency Levels During The Past 60 Days
To keep track of the Second Life Main Grid Stats see here. There is real time data of inworld online users and the exchange rate worth checking out. The Second Life registered users data stopped working back on 21st October 2020 showing 64, 687, 961 total resident signups.
Second Life Grid Size
Since the start of 2021 Second Life has been growing steadily in terms of the size of the main grid. Private Estates has shown positive net growth this year which is good to see. Linden owned regions have been growing throughout 2021 which is due to the lab adding new Linden Homes. Yay! 🙂
Here are the latest grid region statistics as of 30th May 2021.
- Total Main Grid Regions: 26, 873
- Private Estates: 18, 252
- Linden Owned: 8, 621
Back on 11th April 2021
- Total Main Grid Regions: 26, 504
- Private Estates: 17, 864
- Linden Owned: 8, 640
Back on 27th December 2020
- Total Main Grid Regions: 25, 614
- Private Estates: 17, 084
- Linden Owned: 8, 531
Historical Stats 2013 to 2020
Back on 20th January 2020
- Total Main Grid Regions: 24, 147
- Private Estates: 16, 036
- Linden Owned: 8, 111
On 2nd June 2019
- Total Main Grid Regions: 24, 147
- Private Estates: 16, 130
- Linden Owned: 8, 017
On 30th December 2018
- Total Main Grid Regions: 23, 811
- Private Estates: 16, 120
- Linden Owned: 7, 691
18th March 2018
- Total Main Grid Regions: 23, 298
- Private Estates: 16, 058
- Linden Owned: 7, 240
31st December 2017
- Total Main Grid regions: 23, 332
- Private Estates: 16, 106
- Linden Owned: 7, 226
3rd January 2016
- Total number of Main Grid regions: 24, 886
- Private Estates: 17, 775
- Linden Owned: 7, 111
On 4th January 2015
- Total number of Main Grid regions: 25, 611
- Private Estates: 18, 579
- Linden Owned: 7, 032
On 5th January 2014
- Total number of Main Grid regions: 26, 227
- Private Estates: 19, 241
- Linden Owned: 6, 986
On 6th January 2013
- Total number of Main Grid regions: 28, 036
- Private Estates: 20, 921
- Linden Owned: 7, 115
Later this month the Second Life platform turns 18 years old and at the moment the metrics look good. Hopefully the metrics will show even more growth during 2021 into 2022. It’s really good seeing the Second Life grid growing and not declining like in the early 2010s.
Daniel Voyager 
Piping in late, I know, but it’s nothing short of extraordinary noticing how stable Second Life activity actually is!
Even Facebook has stabilised its growth (as well as other Meta products): https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/
Nevertheless, what is remarkable of social media is that, while the growth in users has stalled, the growth in revenue still grows exponentially! I wonder if the same is happening in SL? Of course, Linden Lab being a private company, that’s the kind of data we’ll never have access to… we can only speculate (mostly based on the size of the grid, number of private islands, and L$ transactions on the LindeX), but it’s getting harder to do those estimates…
I’m not 100% confident in a huge growth of SL, even taking into account the buzzwords around the word ‘Metaverse’ these days. We all know that Horizon, and whatever else Meta/Facebook will call their VR environments, will be a mega-flop — useful for Zuckerberg to get some tax refunds, but not much else — and the ‘competition’, such as, say, Microsoft, will capitalise on their existing base of die-hard Xbox fanatics, many of which are eager to have more places to use their VR helmets & gadgets (and a willingness to buy whatever is required to participate in such VR spaces).
Second Life, in the mean time, will continue to plod along.
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Thanks Gwyneth 🙂
Second Life remains stable at the moment from looking at the sources I have (public available). The lab has the most important data private for sure. I think Second Life will just continue on a steady path for the next few years I think. Second Life interest may rise once the 2022 roadmap is done and that will be great news.
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Crossing my fingers 🙂
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