Statistics about Snaps in Snap Store?

[mhsabbagh]

Hello.

It is probably known to most that Flathub provides download statistics for each day for every Flatpak package on the platform:

I am wondering whether it would be possible for Canonical to add similar statistics to the Snap Store?

Right now it only shows a heatmap for where they are being downloaded from, but without any numbers whatsoever:

It would be interesting to see how many Snap applications are getting downloaded each day, and how many users are depending on their continuous support.

What are your thoughts?

[eeickmeyer]

Hi there!

Those statistics do exist on an individual snap basis, but only really exist for individual snap owners. For example, here’s a snap that I publish and maintain:

If I hover over it, it gives me more details under my cursor:

So, it’s not that the statistics aren’t there, but they’re just available for the publisher. Why that isn’t available on the individual page? I assume to keep it simple (the KISS method, if you will).

I hope that helps!

Oh, and with my moderator hat on: a much more appropriate forum for this would’ve been https://forum.snapcraft.io since Ubuntu and Snapcraft are separate projects.

[mhsabbagh]

Thank you for your kind reply. Sorry for the wrong posting, should I delete this post and post it in that forum instead? I just wanted to suggest showing these numbers by default for everyone instead of hiding them by default.

[eeickmeyer]

Nah, don’t worry about it. Instead I’ll just lock this post, but thanks for understanding!