Mixed Reality Headcount, Week ending 7 October, 2007.

Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 7 October, 2007:

Site	Est avg hourly visits	Est avg hourly visits (peak hrs)	Estimated total weekly visits
The Pond	68	33	11,568 (stable)
IBM	42	42	7,104 (up 2.07%)
Greenies Home	25	36	4,296 (down 2.19%)
The L Word	24	23	4,128 (down 21.46%)
Pontiac	23	20	3,864 (stable)
The Weather Channel	16	17	2,808 (up 2.63%)
Playboy	14	25	2,496 (up 10.05%)
Nissan	14	12	2,424 (up 2.54%)
Virtual Holland	11	8.0	1,968 (down 7.34%)
Sun Microsystems	10	18	1,764 (up 24.58%)
ABC Island	9.71	8.57	1,632 (up 11.48%)
Microsoft	7.21	4.57	1,212 (down 13.68%)
AOL Pointe	3.57	2.86	600 (down 15.25%)
Manpower HQ	2.96	2.86	497 (down 20.93%)
Coldwell Banker	2.86	4.29	480 (down 6.98%)
Cisco Systems	2.86	2.0	480 (down 21.57%)
STA Travel	2.71	2.0	456 (down 32.14%)
Useful Technology	2.36	4.0	396 (up 57.14%)
NBA	2.29	2.57	384 (up 3.23%)
Dell	1.93	2.86	324 (down 18.18%)
Reebok	1.5	2.29	252 (down 8.70%)
Comcast	1.0	1.14	168 (down 41.67%)
Coldwell Banker:$3m house	0.0	0.0	0 (down 100.00%)

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.