Eliot, Glad to hear this clarified things. We're hoping that this post to chromium-extensions will be enough (we've been posting a lot on the chromium blog these past days), but if we see continued confusion beyond the group, this is definitely something we'll consider.
Cheers, -Nick On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Eliot <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the info, Carl. This helps clarify what me and some of my > fellow developers have been seeing in the Chrome Extension repository. > Perhaps this could go in one of the Google Blogs (e.g. the Chrome or > Chromium blog)? > > > On Dec 15, 8:51 pm, Carl Nygaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Google Chrome Extensions Developers, > > > > Many of you have probably noticed that user counts have fallen across > > the gallery. There are a couple of reasons for this: > > * The user count is computed based on update requests in the last 7 > > days. Many users tried several extensions on the first day then > > uninstalled those they didn't use. Their update requests no longer > > fall into the 7-day window. > > * Because user counts are computed from update requests, they lag a > > bit behind installs (Google Chrome checks for extension updates every > > 5 hours or so). To avoid install counts larger than the user counts, > > we decided to add install counts to the update counts for the first > > few days (in retrospect, just using the install count would have been > > more accurate). Now that we're a week in, we don't need to do this > > trick any more, so we're going back to just update counts. > > > > Going forward, the stats are computed as follows: > > * users: This is the number of users that checked for updates in the > > past week. For example if we update the statistics on Wednesday, then > > the value you see is the number of users that checked for updates > > since 12:00 am PST on the previous Thursday. > > * weekly installs: The number of installs performed in the past > > week. > > > > Additional details about the statistics: > > * If a user uninstalls an extension before Google Chrome checks for > > updates to extensions, then the user will not be included in the > > "users" count, although they should still be counted in the "weekly > > installs" count. > > If the same user performs two installs, they will only be counted > > once. > > * We currently update the counts once a day, but we're experimenting > > with more frequent updates, so you may see the numbers change > > throughout the day. > > * In the future, we are hoping to give developers access to even > > more detailed statistics about their extensions. > > > > As always, we will continue to tweak our stats processing algorithms > > to give you accurate and useful data. Let me know if you have any > > questions! > > > > Thanks, > > Carl > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Chromium-extensions" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<chromium-extensions%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
