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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Graphs

If the concurrency graph looks a little odd today, don't panic. The scale has been changed, such that the data samples are only provided as often as Linden Lab actually has fresh data (approximately every five minutes - but it varies and I check).

This is all part of a grander data-collection update that tries to impose some data quality on the unreliable feeds that Linden Lab provides - it takes considerable work not to get false or misleading data out of them at times.

Comic - Corollary to the third law



Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending 26 August, 2007.

Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 26 August, 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 140 150 23,568 (down 3.30%)
* City of Lost Angels 79 84 13,344 (stable)
* Lost Gardens of Apollo 79 115 13,284 (down 9.71%)
The Pond 78 37 13,188 (up 11.69%)
* New Citizens Incorporated 76 83 12,780 (down 6.33%)
* Independent State of Caledon 64 91 10,872 (stable)
* Isle of Lesbos 49 76 8,352 (up 2.05%)
* The Shelter 49 72 8,328 (stable)
IBM 47 44 7,980 (stable)
* Midgar 42 36 7,140 (down 8.04%)
The L Word 33 44 5,580 (up 15.67%)
* London Commercial Sims 28 44 4,836 (down 15.16%)
Pontiac 25 27 4,248 (down 20.27%)
* Ballers City 24 27 4,068 (down 4.78%)
Greenies Home 21 21 3,588 (down 19.62%)
The Weather Channel 17 19 2,976 (up 5.08%)
Nissan 17 12 2,856 (stable)
* Svarga 16 20 2,808 (down 5.26%)
Virtual Holland 13 18 2,220 (stable)
Playboy 12 8.0 2,100 (up 80.41%)
ABC Island 9.36 9.14 1,572 (down 2.24%)
Microsoft 7.5 3.14 1,260 (down 29.53%)
AOL Pointe 4.71 5.14 792 (down 23.26%)
Coldwell Banker 4.14 5.71 696 (stable)
Manpower HQ 4.11 4.29 690 (down 3.07%)
Sun Microsystems 3.71 8.86 624 (up 126.09%)
Ratepoint 3.64 10 612 (up 142.86%)
STA Travel 3.43 4.0 576 (down 2.04%)
Cisco Systems 3.29 4.0 552 (stable)
NBA 2.93 1.43 492 (down 16.33%)
Useful Technology 2.07 0.86 348 (down 38.30%)
Dell 1.57 1.43 264 (down 15.38%)
Comcast 1.29 0.86 216 (up 12.50%)
Adidas 1.07 2.29 180 (up 50.00%)
Reebok 0.93 0.57 156 (stable)
Coldwell Banker:$3m house 0.53 0.86 88 (down 47.37%)

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.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending 19 August, 2007.

Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 19 August, 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 145 158 24,372 (stable)
* Lost Gardens of Apollo 87 128 14,712 (up 8.21%)
* New Citizens Incorporated 81 100 13,644 (up 11.04%)
* City of Lost Angels 78 84 13,260 (stable)
The Pond 70 42 11,808 (up 4.57%)
* Independent State of Caledon 64 86 10,848 (up 9.84%)
* The Shelter 49 65 8,292 (down 3.63%)
* Isle of Lesbos 48 66 8,184 (stable)
IBM 47 47 7,980 (down 2.64%)
* Midgar 46 57 7,764 (stable)
* London Commercial Sims 33 54 5,700 (down 3.06%)
Pontiac 31 44 5,328 (up 7.25%)
The L Word 28 35 4,824 (up 18.93%)
Greenies Home 26 44 4,464 (up 13.07%)
* Ballers City 25 36 4,272 (up 9.54%)
* Svarga 17 18 2,964 (down 6.44%)
Nissan 17 13 2,868 (stable)
The Weather Channel 16 18 2,832 (stable)
Virtual Holland 13 16 2,196 (stable)
Microsoft 10 12 1,788 (down 19.02%)
ABC Island 9.57 10 1,608 (down 9.46%)
Playboy 6.93 5.14 1,164 (up 4.30%)
AOL Pointe 6.14 6.86 1,032 (up 3.61%)
Manpower HQ 4.24 3.71 712 (down 20.59%)
Coldwell Banker 4.14 6.86 696 (down 12.12%)
STA Travel 3.5 5.43 588 (down 22.22%)
NBA 3.5 4.86 588 (down 7.55%)
Useful Technology 3.36 0.57 564 (up 161.11%)
Dell 1.86 3.14 312 (down 10.34%)
Sun Microsystems 1.64 2.29 276 (up 4.55%)
Ratepoint 1.5 1.43 252 (down 19.23%)
Comcast 1.14 1.71 192 (up 14.29%)
Coldwell Banker:$3m house 1.0 1.43 168 (up 10.00%)
Reebok 0.93 0.0 156 (up 30.00%)
Adidas 0.71 0.0 120 (down 41.18%)

 

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.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending 12 August, 2007.

Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 12 August, 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 147 163 24,792 (down 6%)
* Lost Gardens of Apollo 80 118 13,596 (up 2%)
* City of Lost Angels 80 84 13,488 (down 4%)
* New Citizens Incorporated 73 85 12,288 (down 7%)
The Pond 67 29 11,292 (up 25%)
* Independent State of Caledon 58 71 9,876 (stable)
* The Shelter 51 68 8,604 (down 2%)
* Isle of Lesbos 48 72 8,208 (down 3%)
IBM 48 52 8,196 (down 2%)
* Midgar 47 56 7,896 (stable)
* London Commercial Sims 35 59 5,880 (down 11%)
Pontiac 29 46 4,968 (down 12%)
The L Word 24 31 4,056 (down 9%)
Greenies Home 23 39 3,948 (down 10%)
* Ballers City 23 24 3,900 (down 1%)
* Svarga 18 24 3,168 (up 3%)
Nissan 17 13 2,868 (up 2%)
The Weather Channel 17 22 2,856 (stable)
Virtual Holland 13 15 2,220 (down 6%)
Microsoft 13 18 2,208 (down 21%)
ABC Island 10 12 1,776 (down 10%)
Playboy 6.64 4.86 1,116 (down 19%)
AOL Pointe 5.93 4.57 996 (up 10%)
Manpower HQ 5.33 2.86 896 (new!)
Coldwell Banker 4.71 7.71 792 (up 32%)
STA Travel 4.5 9.71 756 (up 10%)
NBA 3.79 5.14 636 (up 29%)
Dell 2.07 2.0 348 (up 81%)
Ratepoint 1.86 4.0 312 (up 30%)
Sun Microsystems 1.57 2.0 264 (up 4%)
Useful Technology 1.29 0.29 216 (down 25%)
Adidas 1.21 0.86 204 (up 6%)
Comcast 1.0 2.0 168 (stable)
Coldwell Banker:$3m house 0.91 0.86 153 (new!)
Reebok 0.71 0.29 120 (stable)

 

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.

Go watch this

Almost 8 minutes, but who cares. Go watch this. Watch it now. Like a bit of steampunk? Like a bit of smut? Get to it.

 

I think Chuck Jones would have been proud.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Sick cat

Cat is on the way to a 24hr vet now.

Symptoms:

  • Distressed howl from hallway. Cat was hardly standing, legs splayed, legs bent.
  • Head shaking, obviously disoriented.
  • Eyes flicking left and right, rapidly. Not tracking on external object, pupils fully dilated.
  • Not responsive to external stimuli.

If it was a human, I'd say one too many of the wrong kind of pills. By the time we'd phoned the animal hospital and the vets she was more responsive, but still disoriented and lethargic, and had thrown up.

She's in the cage and should be arriving at the vet in a few minutes from now.


Update: Cat is spending the night at the vet for observation. Tests are being done. Appears to be neurological, but there are other conditions with similar symptoms.

Vet: "It's either very minor or very, very serious."

Update:

She seems okay. No further problem while she was with the vet. Potassium levels slightly low, glucose levels a bit high. Neither of them indicative of much of anything.

It's possible that she's become intolerant of her arthritis medication - the seizure may have been an allergic reaction. She's back to her usual self, pretty much, though a bit grumpy about all the tumult.

We talk to our regular vet over the next couple days, keep her off the medication and see what happens.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Rezday

Apparently it's my second Rezday. Two years in SL. Whew. Quite honestly, I didn't think I'd make it. I wasn't actually quite expecting to make it through the first.

Don't send gifts or cards (I'm about three weeks behind in checking out the inventory objects and notecards that have been transferred to me as is). Send money instead :)

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending August 5, 2007.

Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 5 August, 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 157 177 26,484 (down 1%)
* City of Lost Angels 84 84 14,172 (stable)
* Lost Gardens of Apollo 78 108 13,236 (up 7%)
* New Citizens Incorporated 78 98 13,224 (up 3%)
* Independent State of Caledon 59 65 9,960 (stable)
The Pond 53 19 9,024 (up 35%)
* The Shelter 52 67 8,856 (up 0%)
* Isle of Lesbos 50 72 8,496 (down 5%)
IBM 50 47 8,412 (up 2%)
* Midgar 47 53 7,896 (down 1%)
* London Commercial Sims 39 63 6,660 (up 4%)
Pontiac 33 44 5,676 (down 2%)
The L Word 26 33 4,464 (down 14%)
Greenies Home 26 32 4,392 (down 10%)
* Ballers City 23 24 3,960 (up 33%)
* Svarga 18 24 3,048 (down 3%)
The Weather Channel 17 25 2,880 (down 3%)
Nissan 16 11 2,808 (down 4%)
Microsoft 16 25 2,796 (up 2%)
Virtual Holland 14 17 2,376 (up 9%)
ABC Island 11 11 1,980 (up 3%)
Playboy 8.21 6.57 1,380 (stable)
AOL Pointe 5.36 3.43 900 (up 44%)
STA Travel 4.07 8.86 684 (up 32%)
Coldwell Banker 3.57 4.86 600 (up 2%)
NBA 2.93 2.86 492 (up 5%)
Useful Technology 1.71 0.0 288 (down 44%)
Sun Microsystems 1.5 1.71 252 (up 31%)
Ratepoint 1.43 2.29 240 (up 53%)
Dell 1.14 1.43 192 (down 5%)
Adidas 1.14 1.14 192 (up 14%)
Comcast 1.0 2.86 168 (up 40%)
Reebok 0.71 0.29 120 (up 11%)

 

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.