{"id":337,"date":"2011-04-29T19:48:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T02:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-03-08T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T04:20:47","slug":"app-downloads-after-14-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"App download stats after 14 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I now have stats for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/liltodo\">lil todo<\/a>, a WP7 app, for 14 days. lil todo got published to the Windows Phone Marketplace back on April 9th, and because of a 6-day delay to stats for the Marketplace, I have data for up to April 23.<\/p>\n<p>The grand total after 14 days is 218 downloads, which is an average of 15.57 downloads a day. However, the trend looks pretty grim:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=347\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-347\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-347\" title=\"Downloads20110429\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Downloads20110429.jpg\" width=\"805\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Downloads20110429.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Downloads20110429-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The graph you see above is the number of downloads per day from 4\/9\/2011 up to 4\/23\/2011.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pretty steady trend towards zero downloads a day. On the 23rd, there was only 1 download. Granted, I haven&#8217;t done much advertising of this app, so take what you will out of these numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Some thoughts and random points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there are about 100 to-do apps in the marketplace (there were maybe 15-20 when I first started developing mine), so there&#8217;s a lot to choose from<\/li>\n<li>most people aren&#8217;t likely looking for to-do apps, but they are searching for games, I imagine<\/li>\n<li>do most average people know about the marketplace at all and how to download apps?<\/li>\n<li>this app is free and has no ads, so price isn&#8217;t holding people back from downloading it<\/li>\n<li>the second peak you see at 4\/18 occurs around the same time as I updated the app, so it&#8217;s possible it showed up in some sort of &#8220;updated apps&#8221; page (?)<\/li>\n<li>the reason for the big debut was most likely the huge visibility of the app in the &#8220;new apps&#8221; page when browsing the marketplace<\/li>\n<li>my app shows up on page 5 of the &#8220;Productivity&#8221; category in the Zune app. I assume you move up the pages with more downloads.<\/li>\n<li>the app has around a 4.5 rating with 8 ratings. That means 8 out of 218 people rated it<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure the new, eye-catching app icon for the 4\/18 update made a whole lot of difference<\/li>\n<li>there were 19 downloads in Germany, 21 in the UK, and 127 in the US. All other countries are in the single-digits each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the end of the day, though, you have to admit, 218 people downloading an app is a pretty darn small amount. I should try writing a simple fart app as an experiment to see how many downloads I can get from that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I checked the stats again and they have been updated. The 4\/23 number is now 8 downloads and the following two days (not originally in the graph) are 9 downloads each. From this small sample, it looks like downloads may start to settle at around 8-9 a day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I now have stats for lil todo, a WP7 app, for 14 days. lil todo got published to the Windows Phone Marketplace back on April 9th, and because of a 6-day delay to stats for the Marketplace, I have data for up to April 23. The grand total after 14 days is 218 downloads, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">App download stats after 14 days<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,133],"tags":[26,112,28,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ussherpress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}