Chrome extension active user count stats
Chrome extension user count max out at 10,000,000 users. Only 31 extensions made it to this - which is 0.02% of all extensions in Chrome Web Store.
Most Chrome extensions do not perform so well. In fact, 84.35% of all Chrome extensions have less than 1,000 active users. Only 0.27% Chrome extensions have 1M+ active users.
Note that there are a few extensions where the user count stats are hidden. For example, Gmail and Google Play Music. We classify them under the "0 users / hidden user count" category too.
Here are the active user counts break down across 176,401 items in Chrome Web Store.
0 users / hidden user count | 31,745 |
1-9 users | 35,195 |
10-99 users | 47,935 |
100-1K users | 33,925 |
1K-10K users | 18,071 |
10K-100K users | 7,141 |
100K-1M users | 1,907 |
1M-10M users | 451 |
10M+ users | 31 |
At the publisher level (looking at the sum of all active users across all extensions owned by an publisher), we also see that it is extremely difficult to become successful at building Chrome extensions. 79.71% of all publishers have less than 1,000 active users. Only 0.44% authors have 1M+ cumulative active users.
Here are the active user counts break down across 109,941 authors in Chrome Web Store.
0 users / hidden user count | 13,577 |
1-9 users | 20,342 |
10-99 users | 30,348 |
100-1K users | 23,369 |
1K-10K users | 14,109 |
10K-100K users | 6,011 |
100K-1M users | 1,727 |
1M-10M users | 420 |
10M+ users | 38 |