I recently released a chrome extension new tab, and I wanted to check the download/usage statistics.
I added both google analytics and checked the chrome web store stats. The values are extremely different. Here they are (for the same app):
Here is my extension on the web store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/perspective-new-tab/hehnfhfmcifhbgkefjbfbaefhddlpnjj
My question: why are these values so different? They are off by a factor of 10. Which one (if any) is correct, and is there some way I can know for sure?
Thanks!
As stated in this post, sometimes it takes many days for stats to show, and some days are never updated.
If you link your extension with google analytics, you can then see installs from analytics but its not the same, as the chrome stats also substract uninstalls (not tracked in analytics).
You may also check this link for additional reference.
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Is there a way to see from where traffic is coming to my Chrome Web Store extension?
I'd like to understand how many find the extension through:
- my own website
- searching on Chrome store
- searching on Google
- find it in a blog
etc.
This way I could draw similar conclusions that I can do in Google Analytics. For instance, understand which ways of marketing are working and which ones are not.
I found Chrome store statistics and https://developer.chrome.com/apps/analytics but it seems still fairly unclear if this is possible or how I should go about it.
Yes. All you need to do is specify an Analytics tracking ID on the extension's publishing page. No changes are needed for the extension.
Then your Analytics property will start receiving info on Web Store listing traffic, including traffic sources.
Old Dashboard:
New Dashboard:
The explanatory link is somewhat misleading as it talks about embedding analytics into apps. For people landing on your store page, you don't need that.
When creating the Analytics property, specify it as a website and the URL as the Web Store listing URL. I don't think it matters though which exact URL you specify, as it still works with one of my properties mistakenly set to dashboard edit page.
This has bothered me for a long time, and there is no way to contact Google for support, and their documentation doesn't cover this.
I think I must be missing something, but I can't for the life of me figure it out
If you search for my extension manually, it shows up:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/mortality
but if you just go to the store and apply the relevant filters
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
Extensions, Productivity, Runs Offline
It doesn't show up.
I have had it in the store for a few months now, initially I had thought it just takes some time to show up but I now am fairly confident I'm missing something.
The manifest is correct (Compared to other apps that do show)
Region and language is correct
Has anybody seen this before, and know what the problem is?
I've met this issue before and have contacted with the CWS dev support team. It is because chrome web store doesn't list the item under its category if it has already been installed by the user. I can see your extension under "Extensions, Productivity, Runs Offline" category properly since I didn't install your extension. I think Google CWS team is considering to show up the item under its category no matter if the user has installed it in the future.
CWS works strange, I think some unwanted to Google extensions and apps are blocked and are not shown in the top of categories. You can check this by going to the bottom of the categories and see these unwanted apps and extensions. Simple set the filter to 4 stars and you can find this apps in the place when apps and extensions with promotion tales ended.
I'm super new to making chrome extensions, but I really wanted to make one that let me highlight text and just do a simple same-page google image search of that text by clicking the extension button and opening a popup of the returned images from the query. So I made it and tested it using the deprecated google image search api. I want to put it live but I'm genuinely confused about the query limits. I have no intention to make money off of it in any way, considering the primary content of the extension is just a google image search. I just always hated having to open a new tab to search for images of a word I see on a website when surfing the web.
Also is it even possible to upload it to the store when it's using the deprecated google image search api that still works for some reason even without a key. Or would I need to update it to using the custom search api, which has only free 100 queries per day. And can someone explain that? If it's an extension, and a end user clicks on the extension button and it queries google custom search api, I'd only have 99 queries left for that day? So only about 2-5 people could actively use it during the day before the limit is reached? I spent hours reading stuff but I still don't quite understand.
Don't use the Image Search API. It was deprecated in May, 2011 with bests effort to keep it running for three years. It's now well past that best effort timeframe so I can disappear without notice leaving your extension broken.
The Custom Search JSON/Atom API free tier is 100 searches per day for your entire application. That that could be 100 people making one query each or 1 person making 100 queries.
I have problem that me (I'm in Europe) and my college (he is Europe) are getting different results for a search a Google query even though we use the following:
we added &pws=0 to query
we use browser in incognito mode.
Is there any way to turn off personalization completely?
It may be personalizing based on your location. You can get around this by going through a proxy (dreaded and unacceptable answer, I know). Google doesn't provide an easy option to disable it.
Try these Yoast plugins:
http://yoast.com/tools/seo/disable-personalized-search-plugin/
Or this Chrome extension:
http://www.redflymarketing.com/internet-marketing-tools/google-global/
Google allows you to set your search area as large as a country. By default, I set mine for the United States to remove any local bias that creeps into my results.
try go to the preference page and see if you and your colleague have different settings.
http://www.google.com/preferences
You may try using a different browser to get an "unpersonalized" search. There are some browsers that already claim to do this, but I haven't tested them myself...
There may be the problem of the search not being as complete as Google can 'sometimes' be. Google is most famous for it's search engine because of how it worked differently from other engines at the time it came out. This may be more or less the same now, or other companies may have caught up - I'm not sure.
One such engine goes by the ridiculous name "DuckDuckGo." It is the first result to show up "for me" when searching "unfiltered web search engines".
Other than that, you may try contacting Google representatives to get answers more directly.
I've been doing a lot of research on this, but I figure I could crowd-source with what I have and see if anyone can offer additions to what I have. So I want to be able to determine page load time using JS. Not just page load as a single number, but as a breakdown.
First what I found was a new W3C Specification (Draft):
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/tip/specs/NavigationTiming/Overview.html
This would be perfect, however its limited to Chrome, and IE, and it's still inconsistent between the browsers.
But now I have found Real User Monitoring (RUM) by New Relic that is based off of a Javascript Library by Steve Souders. From what I can tell they can determine the same data that I saw from the new w3c Draft.
It seems that they are using HTTP Archive: http://code.google.com/p/httparchive/
However, I cannot seem to find any information on page performance or load, so I wasn't sure if I was looking at the correct library.
Now of course, if there is anything else out there, that could provide more information on page profiling, I am welcomed to the information.
Have a look at Boomerang.js (https://github.com/yahoo/boomerang) by Yahoo.
Should allow you to roll your own RUM and does graceful degradation so you should still get some information from browsers without navigation.timing.
Also if you've got access to Windows have a play with dynatrace's tools - gives quite a good insight into what it going on during page load (in IE and FF)