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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending 28 October, 2007.

Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 28 October, 2007:

Site

Est avg hourly visits

Est avg hourly visits (peak hrs)

Estimated total weekly visits

The Pond 65 32 10,920 (stable)
IBM 43 48 7,272 (up 10.58%)
The L Word 29 33 4,944 (down 4.41%)
Pontiac 27 23 4,656 (up 9.30%)
Greenies Home 25 31 4,344 (stable)
Playboy 21 32 3,684 (up 35.24%)
Virtual Holland 21 37 3,648 (up 41.40%)
The Weather Channel 17 21 2,976 (up 5.08%)
Nissan 15 12 2,652 (up 6.76%)
Sun Microsystems 11 15 2,004 (down 10.22%)
ABC Island 10 7.71 1,740 (up 13.28%)
Microsoft 9.71 11 1,632 (up 13.33%)
STA Travel 5.07 7.71 852 (up 51.06%)
AOL Pointe 3.79 2.57 636 (down 3.64%)
NBA 3.0 2.0 504 (up 55.56%)
Cisco Systems 2.86 1.71 480 (down 9.09%)
Useful Technology 2.71 0.29 456 (down 13.64%)
Coldwell Banker 2.57 3.71 432 (up 5.88%)
Dell 2.5 2.29 420 (up 34.62%)
Manpower HQ 2.5 2.0 420 (down 3.23%)
Reebok 1.71 3.14 288 (up 4.35%)
Armani 1.0 1.43 168 (stable)
Comcast 0.57 1.14 96 (up 14.29%)
Coldwell Banker:$3m house 0.08 0.29 14 (stable)

The top ten, with commentary is posted to New World Notes. Native sites aren't in this chart, and will be posted separately.

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.


4 comments:

  1. I would have expected SCI to be on that list. Any stats one these?

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  2. I think he means CSI:NY. And how about I Am Legend?

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  3. If you check out the commentary posted with the top ten on New World Notes, both questions are answered :)

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