I published a Chrome Extension, but statistics are weird. At first, I realized that it doesn't count inline installation on my custom webpage.
Do you think that Total Current Users is precise?
For some days I have bigger drop of Total Current Users than number of uninstallations, which is nonsense.
Is there any way how to get precise statistics of total users, installations and uninstallations?
I am not sure is how precise stats in the current version of Developer Dashboard. But I know that Google working on a new version and it is already in closed-beta testing.
The new one has more detailed stats about installation sources.
Here also some steps that can help to improve your stats counting:
Add Google Analytics tracking ID to your Chrome Web Store item;
Track 'successCallback' event on the extensions promo website;
Open a "welcome" page, hosted on your website – so you can count those who just installed the extension. Docs: chrome.runtime.onInstalled;
Open a "good bye" page, after users remove your extension from a browser. So you can calc uninstall events. One more benefit - you can ask "what was wrong?". Docs: chrome.runtime.setUninstallURL.
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The Chrome Web Store allows you to add a Google Analytics UA tracking number to your Chrome Extension's page, however I can't find a way to integrate it directly with Google Ads to be able to track installs -- and to be able to track what keywords lead to higher or lower install rates.
Is there a simple method of doing this?
Thanks
I have a new extension that I am trying to get more users for, I am running two campaigns - lets call them A and B
These campaigns eventually lead to my extension's page on the Chrome store.
Is there a way to know how much installs\addons did each campaign added?
Not clicks - Proper users that added the extension.
Thanks!
In theory, yes.
If you have enabled Google Analytics for your extensions (created a property and added it while editing the extension), that property will start tracking your Web Store page. If you haven't installed it, then no, no such refined data will be available.
You will see installs as visits to /track_install/* URLs. You can create a Goal to have better analytics for it, but you can probably dig through the data even without it.
Trying to access history across all signed in devices but can only get the history on the current device (in this case the desktop browser).
I created a history replacement extension and have received several bad reviews because users have expected to see all their browsing history in the extension. Chrome's history viewer displays full history from all signed in devices as it says below.
I'm currently using the Sessions API to get all devices' visits in the active sessions in combination w/ the History API to get the current device's complete history, but it's not good enough.
Did I miss something or does this functionality just not exist yet in Chrome's API?
One workaround is to use google search history,
https://history.google.com/history/, which keeps tracks of all of your
searches across all devices and the pages that you have opened
following the searches. However it is not exactly the same.
https://superuser.com/questions/849040/show-history-from-all-devices-in-chrome
When you're signed in to Chrome on different devices, you can choose what information will sync across them -- such as your apps, bookmarks, history, and extensions.
To learn how to customize your sync settings, select your device below:
Computer
In the top-right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu Chrome menu .
Select Settings.
Under "Sign in," click the button Advanced sync settings.
In the drop-down menu, select how much information you want to sync. You have two options:
Sync everything: All of the information in the checkboxes will sync.
Choose what to sync: Mark the information you want to sync with checkboxes.
I'm building a funnel for our chrome extension using Google analytics.
When it comes to the chrome store stats at the beginning of the funnel, the data the developer's dashboard provides is limited (impressions & installations only).
I'm looking for data such as referrals to my extension page, the amount of people who clicked on the extension page but didn't install it (not impressions).
Can this data be found in the dashboard or GA? where? and if not, how can I otherwise track this?
Thank you very much!
Efrat
You can add a Google Analytics ID to your projects from the Developer Dashboard. Create a new account in Analytics, click on "Edit" next to your project in the Chrome Developer Dashboard, and add the ID near the bottom of the page. (I'm not sure how new this feature is, but it is a little hard to find).
Inside Analytics, I have a goal set up for the URL /track_install/detail/ext/free/{% my extension id %}, which tracks installations. This shows the number of views without an install in the goal funnel. Referrals are available like any other Analytics page. GA is much more granular and updates in real time instead of once a day like the dashboard.
I am developing a google chrome extension, and planning to inject ads using the allowed feature. I have checked in front of "Ads Behavior" that says "This extension injects ads into some third-party websites."
My question is, how and where do I mention the source of ad? Say, if I want do display google adsense, how do I set it up??
I searched it throughout the day today, but didn't get any information anywhere.
Thanks,
James
Injecting ads is not that simple.
The first problem you will face is to find an ad network that allows extensions to inject advertisements in pages. AdSense doesn't allow this behavior.
The second (and maybe more complicated) problem is to inject the ads. In a chrome extension you can use script injection to add the advertisements to the pages. The real problem is where to put the advertisements. They should be placed in a smart manner; ensure they don't conflict with the page layout/functionality; they shouldn't be everywhere and on every page, otherwise your users will promptly uninstall the extension; you absolutely shouldn't just replace existing ads if you don't want your extension to be flagged as malware.
I haven't yet added ads to my extension because of these and others problems, and I am striving to get some money from it since it has cost me a considerable amount of time to create it, and I have received very, very few donations considering the over 150.000 users.
Hope I could help.