Extension dropped in rank in CWS

[Ibrahim]

Hello,

Recently I noticed that my extension got the "Featured" flag removed from CWS and its rank dropped by a lot.

Previosuly, I was able to find my extension in my CWS category between the top 250 extensions (those that have a bigger picture displayed), but now it's nowhere.

The chrome-stats.com website mentions that I was in position 55 a week ago and now I am in position 1308.

I wonder if there is anything that I can do to find out what was the cause of this and if it's something that I messed up on my end. I haven't done any major updates, only small incremental ones like I usually do.

My extension ID is: gchcfdihakkhjgfmokemfeembfokkajj

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

We're talking about this extension — https://chrome-stats.com/d/gchcfdihakkhjgfmokemfeembfokkajj/trends ?

[Ibrahim]

Yes, that's the one. 

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

I just can't find when or where you were at the 55 positions.

[Pawel Kacprzak]

I never heard of this chrome-stats.com website before so I checked my extension and the line in the "overall rank" chart has the exact same shape, just different absolute values. This looked very unlikely so I checked 3 more extensions and their trend lines looks also the same so my guess is that there is just not much value in this trend line. 

[Ibrahim]

I believe the "overall rank" there is on the entire CWS, across all categories. In the paid version you can filter for just the category your extension is in (Developer Tools in my case). See this screenshot. https://share.getcloudapp.com/Kou1wk8b

But it doesn't really matter what chrome-stats is. I only used it to confirm that the rank dropped after I noticed the same thing by manually browsing CWS, as I do this regularly and I know that my extension was between the first 100 some days ago.

My main concern is that I am not sure what may have caused this and I was looking for some clues to figure it out and improve this.

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

Yes, I see. Hmm, very strange. It looks like some kind of pessimization. I would write to the Chrome Web Store team if I were you.

Did it have a big effect on your installations?

[Ibrahim]

Thanks for the suggestion, I might try writing to them eventually.

It might be too early yet, but so far I didn't see any big impact on the installations. However, the Impressions chart from CWS Dashboard seems to have dropped by a little more than a half starting with a day later after the day that chrome-stats reports the rank drop.

[Deco]

Featured flags go under manual review, which, i suspect, if it was automatically assigned would be why. You can nominate your extension to have this badge by nominating it under Chrome's One Stop Shop - https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/contact/one_stop_support?hl=en under "My Items". It will then be manually reviewed by the CWS team.

Thanks,

Deco

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[Hao Nguyen]

Hi,

I am the developer behind chrome-stats.com. The individual category ranks are based on CWS ranking on a non-signed-in browser, so its exact ranking might be different when you are logged in, but it shouldn't fluctuate too much. Your ranking drop correlates very highly with the drop of the Featured badge, so yea, if you can manage to get back the Featured badge, it might help boost the ranking. But going through manual review is a long, unknown black box. It can take several weeks before they approve it (if at all).

Hao

[Ibrahim]

Thank you for the replies!

As people suggested here, I have submitted a request to "nominate" my extension for a Featured badge. So far I haven't received any reply in the past 5 days, but fingers crossed.

Will post an update as soon as I hear something.