Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending June 24, 2007.
Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday June 24, 2007:
Site (* Native reality site) | Est avg hourly visits | Est avg hourly visits (peak hrs) | Estimated total weekly visits |
---|---|---|---|
* Phat Cat's Jazzy Blue Lounge | 178 | 193 | 30,048 (down 2%) |
* Lost Gardens of Apollo | 83 | 107 | 14,052 (up 7% ) |
* City of Lost Angels | 83 | 88 | 13,992 (up 5%) |
* New Citizens Incorporated | 81 | 107 | 13,608 (up 9%) |
IBM | 59 | 60 | 9,912 (up 2%) |
* The Shelter | 56 | 64 | 9,504 (up 18%) |
* Midgar | 55 | 63 | 9,336 (down 5%) |
The Pond | 55 | 29 | 9,288 (up 33%) |
The L Word | 39 | 50 | 6,684 (up 38%) |
* Isle of Lesbos | 36 | 48 | 6,120 (up 33%) |
Pontiac | 32 | 49 | 5,532 (up 25%) |
* Ballers City | 21 | 26 | 3,612 (stable) |
* Svarga | 20 | 27 | 3,504 (stable) |
Weather Channel | 19 | 24 | 3,216 (up 56%) |
Playboy | 17 | 20 | 3,000 (down 5%) |
ABC Island | 15 | 14 | 2,652 (up 21%) |
Microsoft | 15 | 20 | 2,640 (up 7%) |
Nissan | 11 | 8.5 | 1,908 (stable) |
Virtual Holland | 7.5 | 12 | 1,272 (up 73%) |
NBA | 7.1 | 11.4 | 1,200 (down 24%) |
AOL Pointe | 6.1 | 6 | 1,032 (down 25%) |
Sun Microsystems | 4.2 | 12 | 720 (stable) |
Comcast | 3.7 | 4.2 | 624 (stable) |
Useful Technology | 3.3 | 1.1 | 564 (down 55%) |
Dell | 2.1 | 2.8 | 360 (up 30%) |
Coldwell Banker | 2.0 | 4.5 | 336 (stable) |
Adidas | 1.6 | 1.7 | 276 (stable) |
Reebok | 1.21 | 2.5 | 204 (stable) |
Coca Cola | 1 | 2 | 180 (up 114%) |
The top ten, with commentary is posted to New World Notes.
Methodology
Mixed reality sites in this headcount are selected for their prominence, either from publicity or real world name recognition. Sites with consistent low traffic (500 or less weekly) may be dropped in future Headcounts in favor of other sites. We do not count sites with camping chairs, or visitors in the orientation sims, as there seems to be little evidence to suggest that they will become visitors to the parent site - and if they do, we catch them when we headcount the site anyway.
We collect data four times per day for each site at 2am, 8am, 2pm and 8pm (times in SLT/US Pacific) plus/minus 1 hour. For each sample we count the number of people at the site at the time. We average those samples across the week, and then assume that average to hold constant, with each visitor spending a half hour on-site. This methodology does not necessarily include one-time events that generate high traffic missed by our sampling, which we'll make note of whenever possible. Headcounts do not factor in returning visitors, so assume that the total number of unique Residents are likely to be significantly less than the estimated total visits.
Hi, as the designer of the City of Lost Angels, I just found this on the net, my apologies that I don't have a Blogger account, I'm generally too busy to do much writing other than on my own site at http://www.cityoflostangels.biz
ReplyDeleteInteresting data but I'd have to say after reading the blog and the article on NWN I'm not entirely sure what it demonstrates.
Feel free to enlighten me some time. I don't have a blog account of course, but if you know about CoLA you know who I am and how to get a hold of me.