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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.

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