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.