The total land area on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equivalent of 132,969 standard regions this month, an all-time high — and the third month in a row that OpenSim land area has broken records.
There was an increase of 1,089 standard region equivalents compared to last month. Meanwhile, the total number of registered users went up by more than 1,338. The number of active users fell, however, by over 2,100, partly due to grid outages. ProxyNet, for example, which reported over 400 active users last month, was down this month. And two other grids that reported drops of more than 500 active each may have had database issues, including Vivo Sim and Darkheart’s Playground.
I’m now tracking a total of 2,654 public grids, of which 308 were active, and 244 published their statistics this month. If you have a stats page that we’re not tracking, please email me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that way, your grid will be mentioned in this report every month, for additional visibility with both search engines and users.
Also, I’m no longer sending out a monthly email blast reminding OpenSim grid owners to send me news and updates for this report. If you have news, please email me before the tenth of the month if you want a short item included in this monthly wrap-up. For longer news, feel free to send me press releases at any time.
Our stats do not include many of the grids running on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these tend to be private grids.
OpenSim is a free open-source, virtual world platform, that’s similar to Second Life and allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on their servers for free using either DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for those who are more technically inclined, or any other distribution, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 a region.
A list of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here and find out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
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Top 25 grids by active users
When it comes to general-purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Merchants looking to sell content will go to the grids with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the biggest audience — you get the idea.
Top 25 most popular grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,276 active users
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,271 active users
- GBG World: 2,221 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,138 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,971 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,342 active users
- AvatarLife: 1,196 active users
- Moonrose: 1,111 active users
- Littlefield: 1,000 active users
- Neverworld: 989 active users
- AviWorlds: 972 active users
- Party Destination Grid: 879 active users
- Vida Dupla: 864 active users
- Trianon World: 848 active users
- Craft World: 750 active users
- Astralia: 678 active users
- Eureka World: 658 active users
- Kitely: 650 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 632 active users
- Virtualife: 618 active users
- The City: 553 active users
- Little Big City: 553 active users
- Resurgence: 550 active users
- Jungle Friends Grid: 518 active users
- Herederos Grid: 511 active users
Top 40 grids by land area
All region counts on this list are, whenever available, in terms of standard region equivalents. Active user counts include hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
Many school, company, or personal grids do not publish their numbers.
The raw data for this month’s report is here. A list of all active grids is here. And here is a list of all the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by popularity. This is very useful if you are creating a hyperport.
You can see all the historical OpenSim statistics here, including polls and surveys, dating all the way back to 2009.
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,496 regions
- OSgrid: 27,145 regions
- Kitely: 18,216 regions
- ZetaWorlds: 11,687 regions
- Alternate Metaverse: 9,995 regions
- Groovy Verse: 7,896 regions
- Discovery Grid: 5,094 regions
- DigiWorldz: 3,543 regions
- CandM World: 1,579 regions
- Tag Grid: 1,464 regions
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 regions
- GBG World: 952 regions
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 regions
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 regions
- AviWorlds: 854 regions
- Friends Grid: 816 regions
- ArtDestiny: 784 regions
- Kinky Haven: 653 regions
- AvatarLife: 577 regions
- Littlefield: 515 regions
- GorGrid: 430 regions
- Tomi’s World: 400 regions
- Craft World: 387 regions
- DreamNation: 378 regions
- Furry World: 373 regions
- Neverworld: 311 regions
- Nemesis 3D: 305 regions
- EdMondo: 298 regions
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 regions
- Japan Open Grid: 196 regions
- Counter Earth: 183 regions
- Kater and Friends: 173 regions
- Adreans-World: 167 regions
- MisFitz Grid: 164 regions
- WestWorld Grid: 148 regions
- German World: 144 regions
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- OpenSim Fest: 140 regions
- Galactic Virtual: 127 regions
- Outworldz: 126 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are open to the public but that we don’t have in our database? Email me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
