Chrome Web Store statistics

Key figures

Listings in the store

364 002 Extensions and themes the store served on the day of the pass.

Appeared in 7 days

5 886 Listings our passes saw for the first time in the last seven days.

Appeared in 30 days

19 481 Listings our passes saw for the first time in the last thirty days.

Left in 7 days

1 852 Listings that disappeared from the store in the last seven days and have not come back.

Left in 30 days

8 111 Listings that disappeared from the store in the last thirty days and have not come back.

On Manifest V3

100% Share of extensions whose manifest version we know.

Can read every site

20% Share of extensions that ask for access to every site you visit, among those whose site access we hold by name.

Median audience

20 Half of the extensions with a published user count have fewer users than this.

Users held by the top 1%

93% The 2 709 widest-audience extensions hold this share of all extension users.

How many users does a Chrome extension have?

As of the catalog pass of 2026-10-10, 72% of the 239 427 extensions whose user count the Chrome Web Store publishes have fewer than 100 users, and 90% have fewer than 1 000. Half have 20 users or fewer; under 1% have a million or more.

Counted over the extensions whose store page publishes a user count. A listing the store publishes no count for is not counted as a zero.

What rating does a typical Chrome extension have?

As of the catalog pass of 2026-10-10, the Chrome Web Store shows no rating for 54% of its 270 859 live extensions. Among the rated ones, 78% hold 4.5 or more and 5% sit below 3.0.

Counted over every live extension, so the steps add up to the whole store. The first step is the extensions the store shows no rating for at all.

How many Chrome extensions are abandoned?

As of the catalog pass of 2026-10-10, 33% of the 270 859 extensions whose last store update date we know have not been updated for more than a year, and under 1% for more than five years. The store published an update for 49% of them within the last six months.

Counted over the extensions whose listing states the date of its last update in the store, measured against the day of the pass. An old extension is not a broken one: it may simply be finished.

How many permissions do Chrome extensions ask for?

As of the catalog pass of 2026-10-10, 13% of the 270 859 extensions whose declared permissions we hold ask for no browser permission, 51% ask for two or fewer, and 11% ask for six or more.

Counted over the extensions whose declared permissions we hold, including those that declare none. Access to sites is counted separately, among the key figures above.

How many developers publish on the Chrome Web Store?

As of the catalog pass of 2026-10-10, 187 525 publishers stand behind the 270 859 live extensions whose publisher the store names. 81% of them publish exactly one extension, and the 100 largest hold 62% of the users of those extensions.

Publishers

187 525 Distinct publishers behind the live extensions the store names a publisher for.

Publish one extension

81% Share of publishers with exactly one live extension in the store.

Users held by the 100 largest publishers

62% Share of the audience of those extensions held by the widest-audience publishers.

Counted over the live extensions whose publisher the store names. A publisher is the store's own publisher identity, which is not always one person.

Extensions by category

Month by month

Our history starts on 2026-08-31, the day of our first full pass. Appearances and departures before it are not counted, and a month that started before it is incomplete.

How to cite

Ext Ops Panel, Chrome Web Store statistics, pass of 2026-10-10. https://extops.dev/chrome-web-store-statistics

Appeared and left count what our passes saw: a listing new to the store, and a listing gone from it and still gone. Shares are over extensions whose manifest we hold; the median audience is over extensions whose store page publishes a user count.