April 2007 Key Metrics Released
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 12:07 PM by: Meta LindenHello everyone!
We have released the Key Metrics, now through April 2007. They are available again inXLS and ODF format, and also as a Google Document.
Please keep the constructive and on-topic comments and suggestions coming. I am working on expanding these to provide a deeper view on our international demographics as several of you have suggested- specifically a breakdown of age and gender of our active users for our most active countries. As many of you have noted, Second Life is quickly becoming a much more international world, and we expect to see the growth trends from our friends in other continents to continue. I am excited to see this happen, and many of the inworld businesses are beginning to have more of a multilingual presence as a response.
I am particularly interested in talking to inworld business owners about what information we can get you that will help you run your businesses better. That is the topic I would like to focus on during this week’s inworld Office Hour this Friday at 10 AM PDT at my space in Beaumont.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:13 PM
Brill
May 10th, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Hi Meta. Do you think it may be possible to at some point offer business owners a method by which they may be able to catch a glimpse how their business is doing financially through a variety of searchable criteria. Ie., one week, one month, three months, one year, five year statistics etc.?
I think this would be very helpful in managing a business. Many already do this by using exel programs but some of us arents as technically proficient and it would be great if we could have the option to do these in our account history. If it proves to costly perhaps you can offer it to business owners as a nominal sink basis cost.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:23 PM
from 78% unique in December down to 63% unique now. And trending strongly. In a few months we will be at 50% unique. Very interesting metric.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:26 PM
And the female population is going to totally die off in a year at this rate. This is a trend that should alarm LL and cause them to take action to stave it off.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:26 PM
One of the pieces of information that used to be collected on the old stats page was average $L balance of all SL residents. This was handy, in that it allowed me price items based upon the “average income” so to say. While this isn’t a foolproof way to price items (for example, as it does not take into account market value), I found it useful for finding a centerline and then working from there.
I assume that now this figure would be significantly skewed towards the lower end if you calculated it for all residents, so perhaps it could be seperated based on account type.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:29 PM
I heard some talk about traffic counts being eliminated.
It would be nice if they stayed even if you do not get any brownie points for having high traffic numbers. I like to see at a glance how many people visit my property. Guess I can purchase some device to tell me if people are taking the time to stop by and visit.
Will the key metrics show how many have become age verified? Kind of information that would be fascinating to see.
How about an option to restrict people who visit sex clubs with a flag saying we do not want your kind around our clean establishments. We all know that where there is sex griefers will follow.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:30 PM
no users from Pakistan, Iran, or Iraq while the number of users from Israel and Afghanistan are the same. Hmmmm Very interesting.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:31 PM
Please update the graphs, Meta!
May 10th, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Makes interesting reading, however i am surprised at such low numbers of british people and also premium members, what SL really needs is promoting in the UK and certainly needs more premium members.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:46 PM
Thanks for the inclusion of Residents by country. Recent comments have had me wondering about that.
The other data is, as always, a fascinating look inside this virtual world you’ve allowed us to build together. Keep up the good work.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:47 PM
@Ann (#3)
Actually the downward trend in female percentage isn’t statistically significant yet. If you look a line graph of the data, the line is levelling off. We’ll have to see if that trend continues.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:50 PM
Another though about the downward female percentage: Maybe it’s not the number of females decreasing but the number of males playing female avatars
May 10th, 2007 at 12:52 PM
Ann, I don’t think we’re looking at the same spreadsheet. I see:
The percentage of women has actually ticked up this month, not down, going from 42.06% to 43.03%
Uniques vs total registrations was 63% this month and it was 63% in December. It hasn’t been 70% since July 2006.
Growth of premium residents was 10% month over month compared to the 12 month average of 15%, or 24 month average of 11%.
Meta, it would be really useful to get concurrent users figures in here, as well as some statistics around truly active users in a month (of course one needs to define active users, so maybe someone who has logged in 2 or 3 times over the month, or who have been around for more than a month?) The logged-in figures are tough to use because they have a lot of growth accounts who do not stick around embedded into those numbers.
As I noted in this blog post (http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/giff/?p=350) there’s also something really odd going on with the data on logged in residents (7 day, 14 day, 30 day, 60 day)… the lines appear to be moving in lockstep — is that really accurate?
May 10th, 2007 at 1:50 PM
I like the money supply stats a lot, and more detail would be good - whatever information you have gathered would be nice to see here. All of it.
May 10th, 2007 at 1:56 PM
Except for the weekly stipend, there’s no real reason to have a premium account. I rent land on our group’s island - the 512m no-tier-charge benefit doesn’t apply and is useless to me. Unless there is a good reason to stay premium, come October, I may drop that.
And if the game’s performance and stability do not improve, I may just abandon the whole thing come October instead. God help LL if their new complex features — added in spite of the open letter pleas for stability first and new features later — screw the game up even further.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:47 PM
lmao #13
Australian population 20,821,025; 2.59% of 6 million = 155,400 players = 0.74 (and a bit)% of the countries population
New Zealand also topples America at .76% of population.
Im interested to know why the percentage of the UK is listed as is… as the UK isnt a country… but actually 4 countries? I wonder how much the statistic would change based on Englands population as a seperate entity. My guess is that it would be even higher.
Good work LL, thanks for the statistics… Keep them coming!
May 10th, 2007 at 3:47 PM
Between lindex tax (service charge) and selling of fresh minted lindens LL made about 1,000,000 USD last month. Nice haul.
Any chance of telling us how much it cost to run the whole show for a month?
I’d also like know how much interest LL makes by holding paypal payouts for 5 days.
May 10th, 2007 at 3:59 PM
#15 - The UK is still a country. Devolution isn’t quite here yet!
May 10th, 2007 at 3:59 PM
I’d have 2 questions:
- what is the definition of an active user (as in the country page)
- what is the absolute number of active users? I only see registrations
Oh, and I am right that the unique users are those without the alts you know about?
May 10th, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Pretty wild numbers. I am curious as to the why on those figures.
Could this be due to a larger population in those area’s? or is it an example of how in the United States people have less and less free time?
Giving the rise to road rage and latch key kids left home alone until their parents get home that would make sense.
I cannot open the key metrics on my computer since explorer doesnt support the document type and I keep this computer clean of unnecessary programs since SL seems to eat up most of the computer. So I cannot see if this covers the teen grid. If so how do those numbers relate to the main grid? Are they still the same in comparison or does it swing the other way?
May 10th, 2007 at 4:06 PM
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May 10th, 2007 at 4:23 PM
Alice, I”ve been meaning to ask Meta to include the relative pop’n percentage as a good way of illustrating uptake.
I think it paints a much clearer picture when put next to the raw numbers.
Also, when you go to the Statistics page and divide the number of L$ spent inworld by the number of inworld transactions, you get a figure of 35.876 as the average price paid in a transaction. It would be good to have this as an ongoing number shown on a month-by-month graph to see how well our economy is travelling for those in business.
Keep up the good work Meta
May 10th, 2007 at 4:34 PM
@1: Wake Up: That would be a great discussion on Friday, I hope you can make it to my meeting. Excellent example, I’d love to hear more.
@5: Uh Oh: As I understand it traffic is being eliminated as an effect on search results in Lieu of better search relevance, but you request to have it be available to business owners is interesting, thank you.
@7: Meade: I’m on it! There are some changes happening in the system to generate those.
@12: Forseti: Yes the percentage of active female residents has been slightly ticking upwards for 2 months in a row, actually. More on that topic as I expand the demographics.
Active users is defined as users who spent longer than 1 cumulative hour inworld during the last month of the reported time period.
And I’m investigating your reported question on the logged-in-residents stat.
@13: Broccoli: The country stats are Active users, not total count of residents.
@17: Tao: See response to Forseti above, and we currently are not reporting the exact total # of active users. Also realize that the percentages are rounded. Yes, unique users are derived to the best of our ability to determine alts.
also, folks- please realize that we are only reporting the *top 100* active countries. We do in fact have residents from Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and even Ivory Coast and Antarctica, they’re just not the busiest countries for us… yet. Help spread the word?
@18: Brett: You should be able to open the Google Docs link, it’s just HTML.
These numbers are only for the Main grid, not the teen grid, with the one exception of the age demographics.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Premium by country, Meta!
May 10th, 2007 at 4:54 PM
“Active users is defined as users who spent longer than 1 cumulative hour inworld during the last month of the reported time period.
And I’m investigating your reported question on the logged-in-residents stat.”
That seems a very very lax version of active user. maybe you could break down active users to those who spend and hour, 10 hours, 24 hours, 72 hours and greater then 142 hours. It would help us tell the casual users from the more serious ones.
May 10th, 2007 at 5:13 PM
Thanks for the continuing to release the monthly metrics - very useful, particularly for non-US countries
May 10th, 2007 at 5:19 PM
It would be interesting to see the breakdown of different classifications of businesses, for example, the number of nightclubs, the number of department stores, the number of scenic places etc, and their average traffic as well as size of land. I predict as land fees go up, the number of scenic places containing fun and free games will plummet as malls and prostitution sex clubs will skyrocket. This is just a thought.
Anyway, i wonder what is really driving the economy, what is the real money maker here, and where are we all going when land fees go up? what is the incentive for staying in SL if there are no free and scenic places to visit?
May 10th, 2007 at 5:29 PM
How about adding CSV to the list of formats (here and in the account transaction history)? It’s easier to generate and parse than XML (let alone XLS), and I’m surprised that you don’t just do that instead of XLS, given that Excel handles CSV just fine…
May 10th, 2007 at 5:50 PM
Graphs, Graphs, Graphs on the Transaction Pages!
Daily Graphs, Monthly Graphs, 30 Day Average Graphs, Product Graphs, Location of Sales Graphs
May 10th, 2007 at 5:50 PM
Great work Meta! I am working with Korean’s in Asia (I am located in Seoul) and own English Village. Having these statistics will really help me to serve the asian population better! Cheers
May 10th, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Yes, and also I second keeping traffic around!
May 10th, 2007 at 6:51 PM
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May 10th, 2007 at 6:56 PM
pretty statistics …no doubt took some work to compile it together.
I myself wonder about the over all health of the economy and how is it impacted by these demographics. Here is my simplified math.
The everyday load is anywhere from 27 to 35 thousand people. That doesn’t include min and max spikes of 24 to 42 thousand I observed few times. It wouldn’t be a stretch of imagination to postulate , that based on geographical rotation and average free time of a working family ( based on the average time spend watching tv) everyone on the “constant” load spends about 2-6 hours being in world. And that is what I would consider the “base” of economy of SL at this point. Pretty graphs are just that pretty graphs as are rosy projections..lol
There is probably 2-3 % of population that accounts for the majority of tire fees and the money being made by those is siphoned out of SL….not exactly a reinvestment strategy. Therefore the only logical way to proceed would be to increase the retention level of new sign-ups. That however is flat lined due to technical instabilities of the system and recently SL wide dieing off the small business. Even the well established places like Odds & Ends is off the “most popular” list with traffic reduced to , let’s just say insignificant. Things that attract newbies: dance pads, camping and so on are just disappearing, unless we account for adult only places ..sex clubs and casinos. It remains yet to be seen, how adversely will the economy be affected by the recent age verification scheme. I am not saying that ” the sky is falling”, however I would like to point out that SL at this particular point in time follows the well beaten tract of missing a reality check. It is of paramount importance of any content based provider to make sure that stuff you buy stays with you and gets to you in the first place. I personally know 75 people that after spending thousands of US$ and losing their inventories will just not buy anything until the technical issues will drop to RL ( meaning sporadic) percentages. Without going into all the little and large problems plaguing SL the overriding theme in all the conversations witnessed by myself is ” wait and see”. This is actively damaging the SL economy.
What makes it easy for me too see exactly what I described here is an example of once thriving community of Talk City, which was reduced in the span of 2 weeks, from 100000 active members to about 3 thousands today. It happened due to the management failing a reality check and technical difficulties ….
its just one person’s observation here.
May 10th, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Ok get then get the asia population users more correct this time! If LLABS is clapping their hands and saying there is a many “REAL” and not RP japanese non japanese in Japan I say you done half your 11.50 per hour worth of work. Otherwise don`t was our time with fake or less then 2% real Japanese really here……
May 10th, 2007 at 9:10 PM
@23 - Janie - Actually, we maintain a beach and island hangout place that has an insignificant return compared to outlay - and my partner is working on a side-project which will hopefully fund our fun place.
The beach/islands we maintain and grow so that people have a great place to hang out - as is evidenced by the many comments from our over 500 members and all the non-member visitors.
I’m sure we’re not alone in having the ultruistic intention of just creating a wonderful place that was never intended nor ever will pay for itself.
It would be very interesting however, to see a breakdown of parcels by function - eg, commercial, residential, recreational, educational
May 10th, 2007 at 10:15 PM
The Brazilians are 6% and we had a 5th place on SL.
Unfortunatelly, we had in Brasil a “Second Life Global provider” named Kaizen Games (with iG) because the LL “don’t have interest in this public”.
Well… I’m making money here, but this money stills virtual, because i can’t cash the LL check and i can’t sell Lindens(L$) for Real(R$).
I’m working on, but remember the brazilian “invasion” in orkut.
Probably this will happens here too, so, maybe we need more help about to make SL a way of make real money.
I’ll send a support request, and i’m still waiting.
You don’t have any ways to provides a note or something for brazilians with your checks, showing the provenience of this money?
Because i have a great problem here…
Sorry… If this off topic, just delete them. :\
May 11th, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Quote Ann Otoole:
And the female population is going to totally die off in a year at this rate.
Wrong, there are just more men than women joining Second Life. there are still several hundred thousand women more to SL than when the number od women was higher than that of men for a month in 2005. Never trust a statistic you haven’t faked yourself. Because sometimes they don’t say what they seem to say.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:12 AM
@19, I agree. It would be nice to have average price paid in a transaction.
But it would be best to break it down, so that e.g. L$0 and L$1 transactions aren’t calculated into an overall average.
Otherwise it is pretty useless information from a business perspective.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:25 AM
@28: Dobronmir, not only what you say about “wait and see” is true, but it’s also backed up by real, hard, sad data.
I’m referring to the “LindeX Transactions” tab of the report, second and third column, the ones that count.
For the first time in SL history, the volume of L$ and, more importantly, US$ exchanges has dropped, even if slightly. March has one day more than April, ok, but compared to the stellar rises found in Nov>Dec or Dec>Jan figures, it’s very telling about how the real biz is looking at SL now. Exactly what are you saying: “wait and see”.
I’m sure that lowered trust and confidence in LL’s ability to keep the world going is playing a critical part here. And this lack of trust probably leads to negative growth.
Any enterprise like SL that’s not positively growing at good rates, is alarmingly shrinking.
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May 11th, 2007 at 5:28 AM
Some better amounts of what residents spend, and a better breakdowm of “Business Owners” if you can manage. The banding alone is not much use on the Stats page with transaction amount and number of transactions. A total spent and average would be good, so we can compare the real business economy with the falsely inflated property one.
Secondly, it’s quite alarming that French users have dropped from almost 13% to 7% in two months, and the UK has dropped from 8% to 6%, while Germany has grown 3%, Italy too.
Could the French low figures be because there is only one French speaking Linden, no web pages translated into French (there are German ones) and generally no support for French speakers? There are far more of them around the world than German speakers.
Indeed, as others have said, Lindex is down, new users sign ups are tailing off, Last 60 Days logins have fallen, and retention rate is plummeting. The only thing going up is Land Sales, as people try to cash in for quick profits, which doesn’t lead to a strong overall economy.
Do you think there is any correlation between these number drops and the diminishing service and customer support from LL, and the lack of bug fixes??
May 11th, 2007 at 7:05 AM
If there are more and more non-English speaking businesses opening up in SL is there a translation service available in-world? I’m Australian (English-speaking - but know a little French, a little Spanish) and it might be nice if such a service was available. It would also probably boost the number of customers to those sites.
Also (and just as a matter of interest) with so many Australians in SL are there any Aboriginals out there? Don’t speak any Aboriginal languages myself but it would be interesting to hear from them. I think SL would be a great tool to bridge the divide that, sadly, still exists between our cultures here in Australia. Maybe someone could stake a claim for Aboriginal land in SL to teach others about their culture, customs, legends, languages, etc. I would definitely support any approach to LL for help (technical AND financial) in setting this up. Love’n'Peace.
May 11th, 2007 at 7:46 AM
sorry about hijacking this comment to complain about something.
i just don’t know where i could leave my complain instead.
all i wanted to say is, that i’m not happy with the fact, that comments are now auto-closed after 100 replies. it’s often that i have something to say about a blog entry, i want my voice to be heard too! unfortunately, the time you post the entries, i’m in bed. when i look into the blog next day, i find something i’d like to comment and again i can’t, cause comments are closed already.
that really sucks! especially when there is no other place at all to give you some feedback. think about it please.
regards,
Abdiel Nimbus.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:21 PM
@44 I agree with Abdiel. Living in Australia these ‘100 comments’ blogs are often closed by the time I get out of bed - particularly frustrating in light of the current age verification debate. I would like a say on that topic too.
To relate back to this blogs topic - I’m sure some SL businesses on this side of the world would also appreciate a system whereby blog archives could perhaps be timed for release at various times over a 24-hour period. That way they could have some valuable input on important topics that will affect their future trading prospects in SL (like, as mentioned above, the age verification debate).
May 11th, 2007 at 1:23 PM
Hmm it seems like the statistics are doing really wel.. I am worried though about what will happen AFTER the age verification.. I love this world.. but I guess it wont be the same after people having to give up 90% of this world ” voluntarily”
I makes me wonder.. do the lindens even realise what SL is about? 90% of the people do adult content…. some 80-90% of people joined because of some form of adult content.. most of these people will be at risk to leave, directly after the age verification.. or a few months after when most of their friends have left….
I’m also afraid many people wont join anymore when they realise joining this world is even riskier than entering an unverified porn site. the lindens dont give much customer service… they do hardly reply to what we write..Will our personal info be handled as carelessly as this? This is not a good sign for giving personal info!
I do not feel much like verifying this way.. it seems like a big big risk.. I guess many more people feel this way, who are not able to respontd in any way because there are no proper ways to reply. Will you please please please consider answering our questions before the age verification will be enforced?
And now im thinking of it.. what will you do about the land rentals that are flagged as adults by the land owners? Will the people who do not or are not able to verify be banned from their own land?
Just my two cents
A very worried SL fan
ps: please consider answering our questions.. we will really appreciate it
May 11th, 2007 at 1:54 PM
Why is LL still closing comments after they left them open for a short period of time? what’s the point of this?
I’d also like to know why you can’t have age verification to JOIN SL adult grid vrs leaving it up to land owners with adult themes to take care of their own land. Isnt this suppose to be an adult grid? I strongly believe that this is just promoting teens to go to the adult grid.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:55 PM
now back to the subject on hand here… is there a stat that shows how many residents have alts? LL has already acknowledged the fact we have alts (read the age verification post the new one). I’d like to see if 3 million have alts making a total of 6million residents.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:17 AM
Does anyone else see something wrong here? How can they want age verification if they have an age band stat? Is that just a guess on LL part?
May 12th, 2007 at 9:07 AM
in a nutshell what we are asking for is the following:
1) Understand that this is a medium,and as a media company the only way to a profitable business is to define the audience share based on current best practices. You can use electronic or print models but two things are required : user demographics based on real time data or a verifiable sample. We would prefer that you pick the former. The reserach methods are not to be a hybrid unless documented clearly.
2) If there is acceptance that this media, then decide how it is to be supported: subscription model or ad support. My view is that 6 million residents receiving the most neglible of value would have been able to spend at least $10 USD a month. This is a $60 million a month gross and $720 million a year. That is the value of this business as a subscription model to my way of thinking.
If you want to use the ad supported model then the demographic information needs to be scrubbed really hard. First, advertisers will not tolerate “adult content” and the issues that they bring if their customers make a complaint. Those kinds of complaints tend to snowball with the help of special interest groups. Next, age verification at sign up would be a good way to avoid lawsuits. Again the advertisers will not leave themselves open to that risk.
3) Finally, accept that there are people trying to make a living here either by learning something, or doinng some kind of commercial enterprise..the same as Linden Labs. All that is needed to make a market is open source programming and very large scale collaborative process then new markets will be created. It is starting to sound as though new market creation is going to be front and center in short order
May 13th, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Number of active over time needs to be published too.
Currently you publish two population metrics - number of residents and number of unique residents.
Both figues can not be related to the country spread, because this applies to active users only. To calculate the number of active users for a country or region, we need the number of active users per month.
I would very much appreciate if you could add this metric to the population count. If you have the figures for the past month, please add them in the next report too.
May 13th, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Whenever I want to build my land, or meet a lady I like, you have to work, that I can do that.
This is your task, man.
Beat
May 14th, 2007 at 2:56 AM
You can get a trial version of software I’ve written that will track your transactions. Graph your sales over time, find out which objects are most popular, split up by payment type, and a lot more.
Check it out here:
http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=242396
May 14th, 2007 at 7:38 AM
#1 THING I’D LIKE TO SEE AS A RETAILER: Auto-Email of Transaction History
Please, please, PLEASE add a feature to auto-email my Transaction History to me every month. As it is, if I’m not able to download it myself right on time every month, then I lose days’ worth of information.
#2 THING I’D LIKE TO SEE AS A RETAILER: Integrated Split Profits Feature
Add an option right on the Edit>General window to split profits from a sale with as many other people as you want. There must be thousands of freebie vendors out there because this capability is so fundamentally necessary for retailers. Having to muck about wtih finding and configuring a freebie in order to have a functional shop raises the barrier to entry that much higher. And it complicates my set-up for every product I make available for sale.
#3 THING I’D LIKE TO SEE AS A RETAILER: Add Personal Note to Group Invites
Please add the ability to send a personal note to the standard invitation to join a group. I mantain an announcements group to let my regular customers know when I put a new product up for sale. Every month I go through my list of sales and invite all my new buyers to the group. But without the ability to include an explanation as to WHY they’re being invited, I end up getting emails from confused people who don’t remember having visited my shop 3 weeks ago.
May 14th, 2007 at 7:49 AM
#4 THING I’D LIKE TO SEE AS A RETAILER: Better Search Criteria
At a minimum, add the ability to search with the “and” function, and make sure a note to that effect is posted in the search window somewhere where new players can’t help but see it … or better yet, reconfigure the search interface so it uses Google-like search string options. This is actually SO important, it should probably be #1. Say I have a shop that sells skyboxes and airplanes. A search for “skybox and airplane” or “airplane skybox” won’t find me. Even worse, a search for just “sky box” won’t find me. So we end up with trashy-looking classifieds that are just long lists of words.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:00 AM
Traffic numbers ARE OVER inflated… I watched as 60 or so AVies came thru my property ALL day… I had reset the land properties before the test to clear the traffic numbers… By days end I had over 600 traffic, which is not possible, as I was there most of the day, and the greeters I have keep physical count, which was only 67 AVies on property…. Traffic NEEDS to go. It is useless, pointless, it lies and is a waste of resources
May 14th, 2007 at 9:27 AM
@56 (Anonymous): Traffic numbers are not a count of how many avs spent time on your property, but a number that has meaning only in relation to other traffic numbers. It is based on the proportion of time each av spends there versus their entire time online:
http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=278
May 14th, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Very interesting.
Just take the shape that is worn when you collect the data.
Besides the information of the users, I would also like to know some facts about the avatars. For esxample, what is the average height of woman, men, furries and other avatars. I know it’s difficult, because you should record which shape is actually worn (for how long), but hey, it’s only statistics!
May 14th, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Ty for the 411 Seraph
May 15th, 2007 at 3:52 AM
Sorry this may be off topic, can anyone tell me why the resident signups hasn’t been updted since 5/10/07 at 05:55PDT? Kinda borks an object that I made to keep track of daily/weekly signups.
Oh and I’d take these metrics with a grain of salt: 1. You don’t have any access to the raw data 2. Numbers can be skewed to serve any purpose they have to.
May 15th, 2007 at 7:51 AM
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May 15th, 2007 at 8:06 AM
I know that this is late to this post, but I wanted to request that Meta not truncate the percentage figures for the stats. In previous months, % population by country was a fully accurate statistic, but this month it’s been truncated to two decimal positions, limiting the accuracy and comparability of the calculated data.
When doing country population comparisons, this is quite useful.
May 15th, 2007 at 8:17 AM
Furthermore, stats are changing month to month; total population for March 2007 was pegged at 5,144,889 in the April stats release, while that number declined to 5,137,072 in the May release.
Numbers are absolute… what’s going on?
May 15th, 2007 at 9:24 AM
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May 16th, 2007 at 9:14 AM
Is there (or do you plan on) publishing a report that indicates how many accounts closed out/canceled?
May 16th, 2007 at 9:59 AM
tsss
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:20 AM
Hi Meta,
Are there user-to-user transaction stats in the xls? Don’t seem to see them.
June 1st, 2007 at 2:00 AM
Hi, Is it possible to have a definition of “active user” ? (especially for the population breakdown per country)
thx
June 10th, 2007 at 8:45 PM
hello!i hope this,too!
June 12th, 2007 at 5:15 PM
[...] metrics and keeping answers to common metrics definition questions at your fingertips, such as this question that I’ve seen and answered several times in the comments- the more places we have these [...]
June 12th, 2007 at 8:25 PM
Just wanted to point out that Guatemala is not listed
Tho i’m not surprised, BUT, recently it was added to the list of countries that can use Paypal, and monster.com also added Guatemala to the list of countries with both talent for employment and company/commercial oportunity… so we’re making progress, slowly but steady.
Would be interesting to see how Guatemala does, even if it is at a minute percentage.
Hope to see this info sometime soon
June 26th, 2007 at 7:39 PM
[...] Linden’s raw data indicates that by April 2007 there were 5,973,301 ‘residents’ (user accounts), and the active Australian population is 2.59% of the total, or approximately 154,708 residents. [...]