The overall land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 131,511 commonplace areas this month, an all-time excessive, on a rise of greater than 1,000 commonplace areas in comparison with final month. Nevertheless, the whole variety of energetic customers went down by over 3,500.
A part of the lower was as a result of the truth that the OpenSim Group Convention was final month, driving up these numbers. A couple of grids additionally did not report stats this month, or had outages, or closed, however nothing main — for probably the most half, the lower was as a result of decrease numbers throughout the board, probably as a result of winter holidays.
Scaling again for 2024
You would possibly discover that this text is considerably shorter than earlier’ months. I’m scaling again my OpenSim protection this yr to make extra time for different tasks. When you’ve got a press launch, you possibly can ship it to me, however the nearer it’s to publishable format, the faster I’ll be capable of publish it on the location.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,653 public grids, of which 334 are energetic and 258 printed their statistics this month. When you’ve got a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that means, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search engines like google and customers.

Our stats don’t embody most of the grids operating on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically personal grids.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits folks with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers free of charge utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe here or fill out the shape under.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new buddies search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential clients. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,155 energetic customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 4,715 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,196 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,081 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,837 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,354 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,342 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,138 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 1,036 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 917 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 897 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 887 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 804 energetic customers
- Craft World: 685 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 683 energetic customers
- Astralia: 657 energetic customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 621 energetic customers
- Kitely: 611 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 605 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 577 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 571 energetic customers
- Vivo Sim: 547 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 534 energetic customers
- ProxyNet: 469 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 460 energetic customers
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, at any time when accessible, by way of commonplace area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when 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 in case you are making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,960 areas
- OSgrid: 25,345 areas
- Kitely: 18,262 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 11,723 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,071 areas
- Groovy Verse: 6,422 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,128 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,563 areas
- German World Grid: 2,178 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 954 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- ArtDestiny: 900 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- AviWorlds: 811 areas
- Kinky Haven: 653 areas
- CandM World: 628 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- AvatarLife: 500 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- DreamNation: 393 areas
- Craft World: 388 areas
- Furry World: 372 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 298 areas
- Neverworld: 293 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 194 areas
- Counter Earth: 182 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- Kater and Friends: 160 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 157 areas
- Outworldz: 150 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- https://canadiangrid.ca/: 144 areas
- GerGrid: 140 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
Have you learnt of another 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.