The latest Second Life metrics and statistics are out from Linden Lab, covering to the end of March 2008. This was a bit sudden, being hot on the heels of February's summary, but we've boiled it down for you.

Short version, premium accounts are continuing to slide, though we aren't sure if it is a trend yet, while everything else is growing or on the way up. More details after the jump.

Continue reading Key Second Life metrics for March

Key Second Life metrics for March originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The latest Second Life metrics and statistics are out from Linden Lab, covering to the end of February 2008. Actually they've apparently been out for a while, but without a specific announcement this time (presumably due to Meta Linden's vacation).

Let's see how Second Life fared for February. Highlights after the fold.

Continue reading Key Second Life metrics for February

Key Second Life metrics for February originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

A curious thing happens when you chart Second Life concurrency as a percentage of the total signups. Across the last two years, there's been an irregular, but steady decline, which is what you would expect. With retention of signups to 90 days running at about 10%, and concurrency being a function of both active users and session lengths (among other things), a continuing decline in the curve is the most obvious result.

About six months ago, however, that suddenly changed, and something very interesting has been taking place since.

Continue reading Peering inside: The party's just starting

Peering inside: The party's just starting originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The latest Second Life metrics and statistics are out from Meta Linden this month, covering to the end of January 2008.

Let's see how Second Life fared for January. Highlights after the fold.

Continue reading Key Second Life metrics for January

Key Second Life metrics for January originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Linden Lab's statistician, Meta Linden, has posted the service quality metrics for Second Life for January 2008. While there was a larger quantity of planned outages (rolling restarts, capacity upgrades and whatnot) reflected in January's figures, unplanned outages were lower - though significantly the service quality metrics don't seem to include things like partial subsystem outages and service degradation, that are much harder things to track and measure.

The first half of January, notably was one of the worst periods for user experience in some months. You wouldn't know that from looking at these metrics. That's not really what they're designed to measure.

Continue reading Second Life service quality metrics for January 2008

Second Life service quality metrics for January 2008 originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The latest Second Life metrics and statistics are out from Meta Linden this month, covering to the end of December 2007.

Let's see how Second Life fared for December. Highlights after the fold.

Continue reading Key Second Life metrics for December

Key Second Life metrics for December originally appeared on Massively on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The latest Second Life metrics and statistics are out from Meta Linden this month, covering both October and November (presumably due to the lateness of the data). September largely featured a recovery from the service problems of August.

Let's see how Second Life fared for October and November. Highlights after the fold.

Continue reading Key Second Life metrics for October and November

Key Second Life metrics for October and November originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.