Approximately 1,250 text-based messages are sent every second in Second Life. That’s 108 million messages per day and more than 600 million words are typed on an average day.

Wow that’s alot of messages and words.

Roughly 60% of active Second Life Residents are based outside of the US, representing more than 200 countries, and the Second Life Viewer is available in 10 languages.

That’s interesting that only 60% are based outside of the US. 10 languages is great and room for more in the future.

In total, users around the world have spent more than 1 billion hours in Second Life. That’s roughly 115,000 years spent doing everything from meeting and socializing with friends; to attending live concerts; to creating, selling, and shopping for virtual goods

SL rocks

The total land area of Second Life is now equivalent to approximately 2 billion square meters – roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island.

Giggles, hasn’t it grown alot over the years. Interesting image!

More than 18 billion minutes of voice chat have been used in Second Life since voice was introduced in 2007. More than 6 billion minutes of voice have been delivered in 2009 alone.

Wowwww

Users create more than 250,000 new virtual items every day. There are now more than 270 terabytes of content in Second Life, and this is growing by approximately 100% every year.

Yay, for SL content and storage. LOL

The average session length (time between login and logout) is given as 100 minutes per visit.

I spend alot more than 100 minutes in-world these days. When I joined SL it was like 15 minutes or so, but that was when I was a newbie. HAHA

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25th August 2009 (12:20pm PDT)

SL Forums

• Threads: 253, 326
• Posts: 2, 144, 818
• Members: 2, 342, 123

SLUniverse

• Threads: 30, 378
• Posts: 764, 271
• Members: 7, 692

Xstreet SL

• Guests: 2484
• Members: 2984
• Total: 5468

Have a try yourself and see what the latest figures are.

I hope this was useful!

Q2 Key Highlights

• Economy grows 94% year to year, hits new all time high in Q2
• Voice minutes totaled 3.2 billion minutes, up 48% from the same quarter last year
• LindeX and Xstreet hit new all time highs
• Resident-owned land in Second Life increased 11% from last year
• Homestead sales drives addition of 109 million square meters
• Peak Concurrent Users hit 88,065 early in Q2, but concurrency trended lower over the course of the quarter
• USD 144 million dollars in total user-to-user transactions, an increase of 94% from the same quarter last year

What do you think? Send feedback here!

Talk about the Second Life Q2 economy

• Cory Linden – CTO : 2000 – 2007 > Left in December 2007
• Philip Linden steps down as CEO > March 2008
• M Linden the new CEO of Linden Lab announced in April 2008
• Kathleen Craig (Katt Linden), Linden Lab’s Communications Manager – Left in January 2009
• Robin Linden – VP / Marketting & Community developer. : 2000 – 2009 > Left in February 2009
• Linden Lab’s Chief Financial Officer John Zdanowski (known as Zee Linden in-world) – Left in March 2009
• Prospero Linden – server team – Left in May 2009

Know of any others ?, feel free to add your comments!

• It’s sad to see Lindens go in Second Life and we will wish them the best of luck for the future!

Linden Lab Employees

Resident Staff: 50+

Mentor/Greeters: 68

Exhibitors: 300+

People who helped build those exhibits: 899

Futurist & Android Stage DJs: 103

Main Stage Live Musicians: 100+

Regions: 20 (plus one from the Teen Grid)

Scheduled Events: 815

Unscheduled Events: LOL

Unique visitors: 17,712

Hours spent: 23,662

Countries represented: 140

Advertising kiosks placed: 698

Event Calendar page views: 23, 260

People who caught Alien Gift Thieves: Only 94!

Most Aliens caught by one person: 139

SL6B Visitor Survey

• SL6B Statistics Update 2 - newest update > July 2nd 2009
•  MY SL6B SET - latest captures of the SL6B regions

SL6B Stats update 1

SL6B stats announced by Philip Linden today during the Closing Keynotes speech at the birthday mainstage just after 11:10am SLT.

• Over 17, 712+ vistors have visited the SL6B regions since the gates opened on 23rd of June 2009.
• Since opening there have been over 23, 662+ hours spent by residents exploring the SL6B regions.
• Over 800 SL6B events have been created so far.
• Residents from 140 different countries have visited SL6B.
• There were 20 regions this years birthday celebrations for SL6B.
• SL6B Teen birthday sim from the Teen Grid will be moved over to the Main Grid attrached to the SL6B birthday regions shortly.
• SL6B gates are still opened for another week.
• 16 sims back in SL beta  (t-shaped island)

• FIND OUT MORE: SL6B wiki home page
• WATCH AGAIN: SL6B: Phillip Rosedale’s Closing Keynotes
• SEND YOUR SL6B PICS: Second Life 6th Birthday Flickr stream
• SL6B VIDEOS: Latest newest SL6B videos from YouTube
• WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SL6B ? Add a comment below
• PREVIOUS SL BIRTHDAYS: Historical Links

Latest Stats - check it out!

Key Summary of Q1

Second Life Residents log 124 Million hours and the economy tops $120M US in Q1 2009.

Peak concurrent users of 88,200, an increase of 33% from the same quarter last year.

120M in user-to-user transactions, up 65% from the same quarter last year.

User-to-user transactions increased 65% from Q1 2008.

Over the course of Q1, total resident-owned land decreased 5%.

Open Space expansion, the number of private region owners increased from 7753 in July to 8413 in March.

Interesting metrics so far this year and it will be exciting to see what the future brings.

MORE SL STATISTICS

Check out my SL & TSL Metrics page on my blog for more Second Life metrics.

Active Second Life Blogs 2009 - Published 2/3/09

• Mark Kingdon (M Linden) releases details on new metrics and targets for Second Life for 2009.
• Mark Kingdon visits Europe.
• Mark Kingdon outlined plans to overhaul the Second Life viewer by the end of 2009.
• Listen Here: Mark Kingdon speech

• We’re working on the new user experience to make SL more accessible to more people
• When Kingdon joined last May, the maximum was 60,000. “It’s 86,000 now,” he says, “and we’re projecting that it will be 100,000 concurrent by the end of the year.
• Stability is key, the first hour is everything, and yes, we’re making money.
• I’d like to see a Second Life that, instead of 640,000 active users – today’s figure – has 6 million active users.
• Linden Lab is now aiming to build on this enthusiasm for communications
• There’s been a huge amount of interest in Second Life as a collaboration and learning tool
• By the end of the year, we’ll have our first release of the new viewer. This is a very big redesign effort, and we’re putting a lot of time and money behind the viewer.
• We’re trying to add new features to the website so that it’s more useful to people.
• On stability: “In the second half of last year, we cut the time lost to stability by half. And I think we’ll do that again in the first half of this year.”

This  sounds really interesting on what Mark Kingdon said during his speech and it sounds that there will be exciting changes heading our way soon in Second Life, which is great news for both Linden Lab and Second Life residents. We will see how it plans out over the upcoming months etc!

You can view my SL metrics page for statistics and links!

What did you think of Mark Kingdon’s speech? Let me know by adding your comments to this post to be heard!

Our website will have some downtime on Saturday, March 21st, 2009. We’re moving RabbitStats to a new host and will need some time when the website is inaccessible while this change takes place.

No changes will be needed to in-world collectors, they will find the new server on their own. We will do our best to make sure that there are no in-world interruptions while this is happening and that no data will be lost. (You just won’t be able get to our website!)

Why are we doing this? We haven’t hit the limits of what our current hardware can handle, but we’re being proactive and getting ready for the future. A little planned downtime now is better than a lot of unplanned downtime in the future.

We’ll post on the blog as we work. This will be a fairly large undertaking… the downtime is expected to be a few hours, but there’s no way to know for sure until we actually start migrating.

Thanks for using RabbitStats!

• Updated Second Life’s Peak Concurrency records
• Updated Second Life Registered Accounts Timeline
• Added new section called Old SL Peak Concurrecy Data
• Added March 2009 (estimated section) for monthly estimates
• Added March 2009 Update for TSL - Source: updated via friend!

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If you have any statistics for Second Life or Teen Second Life, which is not included on my SL & TSL Metics page, please comment or e-mail me (Check Stay Connected page) for details. I hope to keep adding new data to my metrics page in the coming months ^_^

A basic account is like a premium account, but with two major changes – you are limited to three collectors, and there are ads on the website and in the nightly email reports. A list of the different accounts we offer is available on our website.

It has been a little over a year since we launched the RabbitStats service. During that time we have learned a whole lot and listened to feedback from you, our customers. It is our goal to allow anyone to have access to quality information on their Second Life virtual world property, and we hope this new pricing structure helps to meet that goal. It’s been a crazy year!

A big thank you to our testers while working on this. We couldn’t have done it without you!