{"id":2166,"date":"2013-01-31T01:58:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:44:08","slug":"the-chrome-web-stores-effect-on-my-snake-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/the-chrome-web-stores-effect-on-my-snake-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chrome Web Store Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been about 5 months since I tried out Chrome’s Web Store<\/a> for my Snake<\/a> and Text to ASCII Art<\/a> apps, and I figured I’d give an update on how putting them in Chrome’s Web Store has effected their usage.<\/p>\n

My Snake game has sat around for about 4 years on this site, consistently getting an average of around 30-50 users a day. I originally wrote the game as a nostalgic tribute<\/a> to my high school days, and it’s only undergone a hand full of updates since its initial inception. Since this site was getting around 6.5k visits a day, 50 visitors means the app was accounting for around 0.077% of the site’s total traffic. After placing the app in Chrome’s Web Store, the daily usage began to steady rise, and the app has recently been getting between 900-1,000 visitors a day on the weekdays:<\/p>\n

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Snake Stats<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Holy crap, the Chrome Web Store is awesome! Even with the bagillion other Snake games listed in the store, traffic has gone through the roof, with daily usage up 2,000%! But what about the TAAG app, has it also seen such a meteoric rise in traffic? Interestingly, even though both the Snake app and TAAG app have a similar number of installs, TAAG hasn’t seen a noticeable rise in traffic:<\/p>\n

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TAAG Stats<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hrm, this is kind of interesting. My guess is that this discrepancy is caused by the following factors:<\/p>\n