Second Life's October Stats: 551K Active Users, Up 50K From September

Last month, according to metaverse demographer Tateru Nino, there were 368K new SL sign-ups.  Subtracting that from the number of "Residents Logged-In During Last 30 Days" on the Lindens' stats page displayed at the end of October, that gives us 551K active unique Second Lifers.  That's up almost 50K from September, and close to what I believe is the all-time record number of 560K active users reached in July 2007. 

A note on my math: Earlier this year, the Lindens stopped publicly reporting active monthlies, so to determine the total number of active users, it's necessary to subtract sign-ups from the "Logged-In During Last 30 Days" figure that's still available to us.  (Very few signs-up convert to active users.)  Over the year, the number of new SL accounts has consistently averaged about 375K a month-- Tateru's exact count after the break.

2008 Sign-ups, as documented by Tateru Nino:

Oct: 368,138
Sep: 371,022
Aug: 373,261
Jul: 404,434
Jun: 314,375
May: 402,055
Apr: 367,686
Mar: 433,737
Feb: 421,907
Jan: 520,959

Comments

[T_S_Kimball]

Hang on, those sign-up numbers show a consistent four-month decline, as opposed to the older history which is pretty much all over the place.

If the war over the OpenSpaces continue through November - in as many media outlets as possible - it should be interesting to see the Nov signup number.

--TSK

[rightasrain]

better to look at the number of people spending inworld which is being reported at 419,000 up a little from 413,000 in Sept. This is of course avatars and not users, which should be lower as many people operate multiple avatars.

Linden people also said at least once (maybe I could find it if I really look) that there are 10% npcs in the active number mix. So between nopcs, campers and lost newbies--the top level numbers are kinda hard to make any real sense out of.

Of course LL could clarify all of this if they published useful stats and not just statistic spew. Most interesting info is number of registrations and then how many of those new accounts actually get more than 1 hour of inworld time within 7 days of registration.