How Many Islands have gone so far?

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-18.html ) this week's island numbers:

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In what was a relatively quiet* week, the grid contracted by 36 regions since my last report.

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 28902 , 23358 private estates (down 41) & 5544 Linden owned (up 5). 137 new regions were added and 28 returned to the grid, with 212 regions removed (33 were renamed and 8 came and went since last report with 6 making a temporary return)

Main comings and goings this week included the disappearance of the Brazilian 24 region Cancao estate and the 9 SPconference regions. LL added an additional 4 regions to the Zindra Adult continent.
This week the number of Adult rated regions rose by 25 to 637 (348 private estates), Adult rated regions now account for 2.2% of the total grid (1.5% of private estates and 5.2% of Mainland). PG rated regions account for 16.1% of the total grid (13.9% of private estates and 25.6% of Mainland).

Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 348
* Estate - Mature: 19739
* Estate - Offline: 18
* Estate - PG: 3253
* Linden - Adult: 289
* Linden - Mature: 3839
* Linden - PG: 1416

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-18.html ) this week's island numbers:

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Another slow week with a small net growth of 22 regions (16 private estates and 6 Linden owned). The total number of Main Grid regions is now 28924 ( 23374 private estates & 5550 Linden owned).
217 new regions were added and 26 returned to the grid, with 225 regions removed (61 were renamed and 1 came and went since last report with 4 making a temporary return).

The biggest change on the grid this week was what I call the "Big Adult Turn-on", following Tuesdays email to some private estate owners an additional 255 private estate regions changed their classification to Adult. This means there are now 602 Adult private estate regions and 292 Linden owned bring Adult classified regions up to 894, or 3.1% of the grid.
There has also been a great deal of activity in reclassification of PG to Mature and vice versa since LL announced the adult changes. The following flow chart *[see Tyche's Blog]* shows the number of private regions who have changed (or not) their classification since 22nd April this year (based on Friday's survey, not todays), when it first became possible to change regions to Adult. Since then there has been a decline of 191 PG private estates from 16% of the grid down to 13%.

Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 602
* Estate - Mature: 19506
* Estate - Offline: 16
* Estate - PG: 3250
* Linden - Adult: 292
* Linden - Mature: 3835
* Linden - Offline: 2
* Linden - PG: 1421

this looks like spam to me. Or cooked ham

No - this looks like dispassionate, clearly reported, concise information regarding region ownership trends to me. I always check the updates.

Rime

This is not spam and I'm deeply interested in these data.
Pandorah, please keep posting - it's very appreciated, thanks.

Agrees with Rime and Opensource.

Great work Pandorah.

Thank you for your encouragement, - all of you. Actualy the 'work' is Tyche Shepherd's (who is doing a hell-of-a-job getting those figures in the first place), - I am just a small wheel in the community machinery, that tries to keep the information flowing, since the Lab is not willing or capable of making this statistical data accessable.

If it is possible, I think I should like to see a yearly comparison, stats for SL now versus what they were at the same time of year in '08. If 07 stats are to be found that too. Rate of growth, loss etc. This is just some musing aloud,

Thanks for posting the statistics available. It's an excellent effort and very appreciated.

Bliss

I can offer you a comparison / the development in two parts:

The fist part is the square metres of land (in millions) - from a time when the Lab still published those numbers on a monthly basis:

year month mainland islands
2006 October 84 134
2006 November 85 170
2006 December 87 206
2007 January 103 258
2007 February 116 296
2007 March 132 372
2007 April 145 435
2007 May 160 491
2007 June 167 546
2007 July 179 601
2007 August 189 650
2007 September 185 687
2007 October 186 718
2007 November 184 755
2007 December 185 778
2008 January 183 820
2008 February 187 852
2008 March 188 906
2008 April 192 1,001
2008 May 224 1,206
2008 June 222 1,355
2008 July 223 1,490
2008 August 224 1,610
2008 September 224 1,723
2008 October 227 1,786
2008 November 226 1,645

(Sorry for the ugly format, but I have no idea how to make proper tables in here
Paste them in exel and you see a nice graph

When the OS fisko kicked in, the Lab developed problems getting their numbes published, but fortunately Tyche had started to keep track before, so there is a certain overlap:

week private-sims mainland-sims
11/05/08 15861 4616
18/05/08 16611 4652
25/05/08 17362 4689
01/06/08 17879 4760
08/06/08 18396 4831
15/06/08 18913 4902
22/06/08 19430 4973
28/06/08 19875 5114
06/07/08 20382 5051
13/07/08 20889 4989
20/07/08 21464 4969
27/07/08 21850 5007
03/08/08 22237 5045
10/08/08 22631 5005
17/08/08 23026 4965
24/08/08 23452 4966
31/08/08 23861 4975
07/09/08 24312 4975
14/09/08 24746 4975
21/09/08 25070 5053
28/09/08 25419 5053
05/10/08 25731 5053
12/10/08 26076 5053
19/10/08 26363 5082
26/10/08 26605 5082
02/11/08 26523 5092
09/11/08 26242 5094
16/11/08 25824 5094
23/11/08 25222 5093
30/11/08 24604 5128
07/12/08 24185 5141
14/12/08 23519 5145
21/12/08 23116 5182
28/12/08 22835 5181
04/01/09 22406 5211
11/01/09 22107 5217
18/01/09 21988 5218
25/01/09 21912 5366
01/02/09 21822 5364
08/02/09 21782 5366
15/02/09 21692 5372
22/02/09 21662 5371
01/03/09 21574 5372
08/03/09 21500 5374
15/03/09 21463 5374
22/03/09 21363 5374
29/03/09 21301 5382
05/04/09 21195 5373
12/04/09 21353 5386
19/04/09 21362 5385
26/04/09 21350 5410
03/05/09 21360 5414
10/05/09 21343 5410
17/05/09 21311 5417
24/05/09 21367 5417
31/05/09 21568 5417
07/06/09 21828 5418
14/06/09 22100 5423
21/06/09 22384 5423
28/06/09 22637 5423
05/07/09 23028 5495
12/07/09 23181 5544
19/07/09 23179 5547
26/07/09 23155 5523
02/08/09 23207 5534
09/08/09 23277 5539
16/08/09 23399 5539
23/08/09 23358 5544
30/08/09 23374 5550

I hope that helps.

Another quite interesting column of numbers is the land price development (Avg L$ Paid Per Square Meter):

Jun 07 9.07
Jul 07 8.48
Aug 07 7.08
Sep 07 6.46
Oct 07 6.25
Nov 07 6.31
Dec 07 6.30
Jan 08 6.53
Feb 08 6.72
Mar 08 6.26
Apr 08 5.05
May 08 3.23
Jun 08 2.82
Jul 08 2.29
Aug 08 1.98
Sep 08 1.78
Oct 08 1.60
Nov 08 1.98
Dec 08 1.97
Jan 09 1.88
Feb 09 1.81
Mar 09 1.77
Apr 09 1.61
May 09 1.50
Jun 09 1.17
Jul 09 1.10
Aug 09 0.92

You dont even have to turn it into a graph to see the obvious.
(These are by the way Lab numbers collected from here: http://secondlife.com/statistics/economy-data.php - from the land_sales_by_residents.xls files)

Note that the stats page still has the 'old' design, with the "Your world. Your imagination." header - kinda sad somehow. Wonder when this page will be a victim of the redesign and probably just vanish.

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-18.html ) this week's island numbers:

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In a much busier week than recent ones,the Main Grid showed net growth of 194 regions, 174 of these being private estates regions.

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29118 ( 23548 private estates & 5570 Linden owned)
380 new regions were added and 48 returned to the grid, with 257 regions removed (81 were renamed and 21 came and went since last report with 8 making a temporary return).

The main news this week was an increase of 213 Adult regions bringing the current total to 1107, 3.8% of the total grid and the arrival of 34 University of Texas Regions. Dreamland Estates also activated at least 26 homestead regions and Linden Lab brought online another 20 Zindra regions.

Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 794
* Estate - Mature: 19490
* Estate - Offline: 14
* Estate - PG: 3250
* Linden - Adult: 313
* Linden - Mature: 3835
* Linden - Offline: 1
* Linden - PG: 1421
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NEW: See Tyche's numbers as graphs:

The first shows the number of private estate regions over time:


The next shows the net weekly changes in number of private estates over time:


And the final one shows the region access classification(PG,Mature,Adult) over time for private estates and Linden owned mainland:

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-18.html ) this week's island numbers:

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This week the Grid grew by 51 regions, all but 1 being private estates.

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29169 ( 23598 private estates & 5571 Linden owned).
218 new regions were added and 41 returned to the grid, with 223 regions removed (44 were renamed and 2 came and went since last report with 20 making a temporary return).

Adult classified regions grew by 104 (all Private estates) so now 4.2% of the grid is classified as Adult (3.8% of private estates).
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 898
* Estate - Mature: 19465
* Estate - Offline: 3
* Estate - PG: 3232
* Linden - Adult: 313
* Linden - Mature: 3837
* Linden - PG: 1421

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-18.html ) this week's island numbers:

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A relatively quiet week with a net increase of 23 Main Grid regions, Private estates had net growth of 24 regions whilst Linden owned declined by 1 region. There were no significant growths or declines in multi region estates .

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29192 ( 23622 private estates & 5570 Linden owned)
156 new regions were added and 30 returned to the grid, with 169 regions removed (45 were renamed and 2 came and went since last report with 7 making a temporary return)

Adult rated regions now number 1500 (5.1% of the grid) of which 1187 are private estates (5.0% of private estates).
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 1187
* Estate - Mature: 19189
* Estate - Offline: 5
* Estate - PG: 3241
* Linden - Adult: 313
* Linden - Mature: 3835
* Linden - Offline: 1
* Linden - PG: 1421

Thank you again for taking the time and effort to show us an ongoing picture of how the land growth stands in Second Life.

I was really wanting to add ocean areas around my island, but the available land types are not filling me with enthusiasm.

bliss

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-18.html ) this week's island numbers:

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The SL Main Grid had net growth of 1 Linden owned region this week, private estate net growth was zero.

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29193 ( 23622 private estates & 5571 Linden owned).
145 new regions were added and 27 returned to the grid, with 175 regions removed (20 were renamed with 7 making a temporary return).

Adult rated regions now number 1553 (5.3% of the grid), There are 4641 PG regions (15.9%).
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 1240
* Estate - Mature: 19148
* Estate - Offline: 14
* Estate - PG: 3220
* Linden - Adult: 313
* Linden - Mature: 3836
* Linden - Offline: 1
* Linden - PG: 1421

I came across this article a while ago, which gives some insight and opinion about this whole area:
http://secondlifesecondchance.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-linden-lab-makes-sims-void.html

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-18.html ) this week's island numbers:

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The Main Grid grew by 101 regions this week, all of this net growth was amongst private estates.
Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29294 ( 23723 private estates & 5571 Linden owned).
300 new regions were added and 34 returned to the grid, with 252 regions removed (62 were renamed and 3 came and went since last report with 18 making a temporary return).
50 to 60 of the new regions this week were Dreamland ACS homestead regions.

34 additional private estates were classified as Adult this week.
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 1274
* Estate - Mature: 19201
* Estate - Offline: 11
* Estate - PG: 3237
* Linden - Adult: 313
* Linden - Mature: 3837
* Linden - PG: 1421

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-19.html ) this week's island numbers:

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The grid showed net growth of 83 regions this week and like last week all this growth was in Priavte Estates.
Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29383 ( 23812 private estates & 5571 Linden owned).
217 new regions were added and 30 returned to the grid, with 173 regions removed (36 were renamed and 2 came and went since last report). Over 60 of the new regions are Dreamland ACS homesteads

There are currently 1592 Adult region which account for 5.4% of the Main Grid. The 4649 PG regions are 15.8% of the Grid.
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 1279
* Estate - Mature: 19298
* Estate - Offline: 7
* Estate - PG: 3228
* Linden - Adult: 313
* Linden - Mature: 3837
* Linden - PG: 1421

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-19.html ) this week's island numbers:

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Overall a quiet week with the Main Grid showing a net contraction of 10 regions, private estates dropped by 43 regions whilst Linden owned grew by 33.

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29373 ( 23769 private estates & 5604 Linden owned)
171 new regions were added and 26 returned to the grid, with 215 regions removed (37 were renamed and 4 came and went since last report).
The 2 significant changes this week were the Zindra expansion of 33 ursula generic regions and the 40 or so BnT regions which finally came off the grid after being down for 3 to 4 days.

Adult regions now number 1624 (5.5% of the Grid) , PG regions number 4639 (15.8%).
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 1278
* Estate - Mature: 19272
* Estate - Offline: 1
* Estate - PG: 3218
* Linden - Adult: 346
* Linden - Mature: 3837
* Linden - PG: 1421

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-19.html ) this week's island numbers:

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Yet again a slow week on the Grid, which showed a small net growth of 30 regions (29 Private Estates).

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29403 ( 23798 private estates & 5605 Linden owned).
168 new regions were added and 30 returned to the grid, with 177 regions removed (71 were renamed and 3 came and went since last report).
There were no major coming or goings on the Grid though the new 33 Ursula Regions were renamed to their final names.

Whilst my daily grid surveys have showed a quiet grid, I've been busy this week running two special surveys. The first completed on Monday shows that Governor Linden directly owns 30% of Mainland land by area, and that 84% of Resident Owned Mainland is group owned.
The second completed on Friday estimates that 60% of Private Estates are Full Regions, 39% Homesteads and 1% Openspaces.

Adult regions grew by 27 to 1651 (5.6%), PG Regions grew by 5 to 4644 (15.8%).
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 1303
* Estate - Mature: 19264
* Estate - Offline: 9
* Estate - PG: 3222
* Linden - Adult: 348
* Linden - Mature: 3835
* Linden - PG: 1422

Since LL is still 'repairing' their statistics page, again quoted from Tyche Shepherd's blog ( http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/business-land-economy/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-20.html ) this week's island numbers:

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A very static week with net Main Grid growth of 6 regions in total, with private estates growing by 7 and linden owned losing 1 region.

Total number of Main Grid regions is now 29409 ( 23805 private estates & 5604 Linden owned)
132 new regions were added and 22 returned to the grid, with 154 regions removed (28 were renamed and 1 came and went since last report).
The only significant estate change this week were the arrival of 6 Australia regions - Currently closed to public access.

Adult classified regions grew to 1673, up 22, whilst PG classified regions dropped by 39 to 4605.
Breakdown of current regions by Ownership and Classification:

* Estate - Adult: 1325
* Estate - Mature: 19246
* Estate - Offline: 50
* Estate - PG: 3184
* Linden - Adult: 348
* Linden - Mature: 3834
* Linden - Offline: 1
* Linden - PG: 1421

And an interesting breakdown of Estate Regions (quoted from Tyche Shepherd: http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/virtual-business/35764-60-private-estate-regions-full.html )
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I have just completed a 2000 region survey of Private Estates to estimate Full Region/Homestead/Openspace penetration figures. The Results are as follows

* Full Regions : 1029
* Homestead Regions: 672
* Openspace: 14
* Closed to Public :285

Of the 1715 accessible regions , 60.0% are Full Regions, 39.18% are Homesteads and 0.82% are Openspaces. The Margin of Error on the first two percentages is +/-2.23% at the 95% confidence level, The Openspace Margin of error is +/-0.41%.

Last time I ran a similar Survey was August 2008 (Openspaces nearly half of all Estate Sims) where I estimated 54% Full Regions vs 46% Old Style Openspaces. This was a few months before the repricing of Homesteads .

One significant change from the last survey is that the proportion of regions closed to public access has declined from 17.0% to 14.25%. Just by scanning region names there seems a small bias towards commercial/academic regions being closed to the public , the same trend was noted last survey.

In my Survey Bots travels she only visited one region which was the "Homestead - Developed" type , i.e one of the new homesteads delivered with Linden Content . This seems to indicate that there has been very little demand for this Linden Product.

The 2000 sample was randomly drawn from all 23812 Private Estates present on the Grid on 20th October 2009. An additional 25 regions were also selected to replace regions which went off the Grid between the sample being drawn and the actual surveying, or in 4 cases were off line during the surveying period. None of the 5604 Mainland regions were included in the sampling.

It would be interesting to find out from this sample, how many new Homesteads and Open Space sims have been purchased since July 1, 2009, if that is possible. July 1st was when the monthly tier for Homesteads was finally put up to 125 USD. Also, if there are any, who are the owners of them, i.e., large land barons only? Those kind of stats would be most revealing, indeeeeeed.

The survey wasn't designed to answer those questions.

In the case of how many new homesteads, 237 of the 1715 accessible regions sampled, first appeared on the Grid on or after July 1st , of these 117 were full regions, 115 Homesteads and 5 were openspaces, However , appearance on the Grid doesn't necessarily mean newly purchased , they could be renamed regions or created either by consolidation of homesteads or a break up of a full region into homesteads. The sample was also drawn from all regions on the Grid on October 20th, so ignores any regions purchased after 1st July which subsequently went off line in the preceding 3.5 months. I would not use these figures to estimate number of Homesteads purchased since that date.

I also don't record ownership of regions in this survey so can't draw any conclusions about who has been purchasing what. My normal weekly surveys on SLU ,which Pandorah reports in summary here, have more details about which regions have come and gone, as well as identifying any significant changes in private estates .

The survey wasn't designed to answer those questions.

In the case of how many new homesteads, 237 of the 1715 accessible regions sampled, first appeared on the Grid on or after July 1st , of these 117 were full regions, 115 Homesteads and 5 were openspaces, However , appearance on the Grid doesn't necessarily mean newly purchased , they could be renamed regions or created either by consolidation of homesteads or a break up of a full region into homesteads. The sample was also drawn from all regions on the Grid on October 20th, so ignores any regions purchased after 1st July which subsequently went off line in the preceding 3.5 months. I would not use these figures to estimate number of Homesteads purchased since that date.

I also don't record ownership of regions in this survey so can't draw any conclusions about who has been purchasing what. My normal weekly surveys on SLU ,which Pandorah reports in summary here, have more details about which regions have come and gone, as well as identifying any significant changes in private estates .