That’s one less crapware on the Microsoft Store, so this is good news either way. It’s not clear whether Google or Microsoft removed the app from the store. Update: The Google Chrome Installer has now been pulled from the Microsoft Store following all the backlash from users.
If you want to learn more about the code behind it, see. In this efforts, I prioritized the privacy of users over the accuracy of statistics (by storing the random ID in localStorage (which is not synchronized) and refreshing this ID at every major browser update). Recently, I introduced server-pings in one of my extensions, to measure the number of users per Chrome version at a given day/week. Include this ID in requests to the server (for sample code, see Getting unique ClientID from chrome extension?). If you want to have the most reliable indicator of "user", generate a random identifier and store it in. If you want to continue to use the onInstalled method, at the very least check whether details.reason = 'install'.
If you want to know the number of installations, look at the CWS dashboard. Every week, I receive at most a few pings, yet the CWS claims that the extension has about 400 weekly users (these users probably disabled my extension consequently the extension cannot remove itself but Chrome still checks for updates). Because the extension became obsolete, I published an update that sends a ping to my server and removes the extension itself (using ). This number is not the number of active weekly users, and probably over-estimates the number of actual users.įor example, I have an extension that used to have 1.7k users. The Chrome Web Store publicly shows the number of weekly users ( measured by counting the number of update checks per week). The Chrome Web Store dashboard (for developers only) provides the number of daily installations (probably measured by counting the number of on-demand CRX downloads). So, your way of counting unique users is flawed (and given the small number of users, it is likely that your method is overestimating the number of users). The number of unique IP addresses is not a reliable indicator for users, because users may be using a dynamic address (instead of a static IP address that does not change), and multiple users may be sharing an IP address (behind a NAT or proxy).Īnd is not just triggered upon a new installation of your extension, but also when the browser/extension is updated.
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