While it's being commonly reported from the monthly statistics and metrics published by Linden Lab that Europeans form the bulk of the signups versus USA residents, statistically the operational significance of it is much higher than you might think by looking at the numbers. Moreover, we're not just talking about USA residents, but all nationalities that fall within the American timezones.If you look at the concurrency figures for one year ago, the peak period used to be between 7 and 8 pm, USA Pacific time. If you take a look at the graph to the right, you'll see the downslope from the daily peak concurrency. The peak and downslope form a similar curve every day, with the peak usage coming between 1 and 2pm, USA Pacific time (peak European time, marked in yellow), and steadily sliding, except for a bulge at the traditional American timezone peak (marked in green).
That bulge, over time is becoming statistically less noticeable as the majority of Second Life use seems to be increasingly coming from outside of the American Timezone band, in Europe, the Pacific and Asia.
1. So are there any statistics showing where the paid accounts are coming from? It would be interesting to see if that is spread according to the new overall population statistics.
Posted at 10:58PM on May 5th 2007 by Moriash Moreau