Today's updates to Chrome Web Store

[Mike West]

Hello chromium-apps and chromium-extensions!

After celebrating our first birthday last week (!!!), the team just pushed a few updates to the Chrome Web Store; we'd like to make sure that you're well informed, hence this quick summary of the changes that go beyond the usual bug fixes and performance improvements:

• We've added a new "Related" tab to each app/extension's detail page which displays a list of (surprise!) related items. This tab will also display other apps/extensions from the same developer, which we know was a hotly requested feature.

• WebGL applications will now only be shown to users whose hardware supports the standard. Users whose hardware can't handle WebGL won't see WebGL apps on the store, and if they land directly on a WebGL app, a warning will be displayed to set expectations correctly. If this is a requirement for your app, add a `requirements` key to your app’s manifest, and push a new version via the developer dashboard. Documentation for the `requirements` key’s format is available at http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/manifest.html#requirements

• Category pages can now be sorted by either popularity or rating.

• We now accept screenshots at 640x400. We prefer larger images (1280x800), but for some applications the larger size was inappropriate.

• Previously, browsers other than Chrome were still being served the old UI. Now everyone will see the new, endless wall of apps, and we’ll simply prompt users of other browsers to install Chrome if they want to install an application.

Thanks!

-Mike

[Don Schmitt]

Hi Mike,

One thing that was available from non-Chrome browsers was an extension's "Weekly installs".  This doesn't appear to exist anywhere in the new web store.  Is there a plan to make this figure available again?

Thanks! - Don

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[Nilson Freitas]

Hi Mike,

When Brazilian developers will be able to sell his apps at chrome web store????

2011/12/14 Don Schmitt <donc...@gmail.com>

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[Paul Kinlan]

Hi Don,

Can I ask the reason that you want weekly installs? Does it provide a
good metric for potential users or is it something that you want to
track?

Thanks,
P

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[GigAtom]

I tracked the "weekly installs" for my apps and extensions. It
appeared as if they were showing the momentum of the app/extension.
Besides that it was somewhat of a compensation for the missing "total
installs" figure.

However, visitors of the Web Store might not find it as relevant/
useful.

> >>http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/manifest.html#requirem...

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> >> Category pages can now be sorted by either popularity or rating.
>
> >> We now accept screenshots at 640x400. We prefer larger images (1280x800),
> >> but for some applications the larger size was inappropriate.
>
> >> Previously, browsers other than Chrome were still being served the old UI.
> >> Now everyone will see the new, endless wall of apps, and we’ll simply prompt
> >> users of other browsers to install Chrome if they want to install an
> >> application.
>
> >> Thanks!
>
> >> -Mike
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[Christopher Hughes]

Paul, I too miss the weekly install metric. It also gives us a nice data point for how fast were growing in comparison to other apps that perform similar tasks.

We've resorted to building a phantomjs app to scrape the (sorta daily) usercounts data from the store.

Less clean, but it helps.

-chris

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[Don Schmitt]

Hi Paul,

As a potential user of a product I find it useful for wading through the noise similar apps.  One app might have way more active users than another just due to it being older, and weekly installs gives me a better sense of current popularity and it might indicate that users are actually moving from one to the other.

As a developer, the weekly installs metric is very useful.  Since it represents current trends, it's a better indicator of effectiveness of actions, such as localization, advertising campaigns, store changes.  As another poster pointed out, it's also a better indicator of trends vs. similar products.

Some of the weekly installs indicator can be deduced by comparing week-over-week differences in active users, but that's not only tedious to track, but it doesn't reflect the fact that users may install then uninstall.

It doesn't have to be high profile, but it's certainly useful for users and developers, so it'd be great if you could sneak it back in someplace.

Thanks,

 - Don