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Monday, July 02, 2007

Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending July 1, 2007.

Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday July 1, 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 150 158 25,308 (down 15%)
* City of Lost Angels 81 88 13,740 (down 1%)
* Lost Gardens of Apollo 81 103 13,644 (down 2%)
* New Citizens Institute 73 93 12,276 (down 9%)
IBM 63 65 10,692 (up 7%)
* Midgar 50 57 8,484 (down 9%)
* The Shelter 49 60 8,268 (down 13%)
The Pond 46 29 7,788 (down 16%)
* Isle of Lesbos 45 63 7,572 (up 23%)
The L Word 37 50 6,360 (down 4%)
Pontiac 33 49 5,544 (stable)
* Ballers City 26 29 4,392 (up 21%)
* Svarga 20 25 3,444 (down 1%)
The Weather Channel 16 26 2,772 (down 13%)
Playboy 16 18 2,772 (down 7%)
Microsoft 15 14 2,664 (stable)
Nissan 14 11 2,472 (up 29%)
ABC Island 14 17 2,436 (down 8%)
STA Travel 8.36 13 1,404 (new)
NBA 6.86 10 1,152 (down 4%)
Virtual Holland 5.64 7.71 948 (down 25%)
AOL Pointe 5.5 6.57 924 (down 10%)
Useful Technology 5.5 1.71 924 (up 63%)
Comcast 2.36 1.14 396 (down 36%)
Dell 1.64 3.14 276 (down 23%)
Coldwell Banker 1.57 5.14 264 (down 21%)
Ratepoint 1.21 2.57 204 (new)
Adidas 1.21 0.57 204 (down 26%)
Sun Microsystems 1.07 2.57 180 (down 75%)
Coca Cola 0.64 1.14 108 (down 40%)
Reebok 0.43 0.0 72 (down 64%)

* Note, that we're now listing NCI under their new name, New Citizens Institute.


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.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:26 PM

    Tateru--please don't list us as New Citizens Institute yet. I don't have the free time to change the hundreds of signs and textures and notecards night now.

    Carl

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  2. As an Estate Manager of Midgar, I find this information very interesting.
    Thanks.

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