Know where your Chrome extension really stands

The developer dashboard has no keyword-position data at all, and the public listing shows your user count only as a rounded range — “10,000+ users”. cwspy tracks the dynamics for you automatically: user counts recorded over time, real search positions per keyword and per search market, and your competitors' listings alongside — so you see how your numbers actually move and why, without checking anything by hand.

Data-heavy, spreadsheet-style tools give you a lot to configure and dig through. cwspy deliberately shows fewer numbers, chosen for clarity: growth, rankings, and competitors — nothing to set up, no dashboard to learn before you get an answer.

No. Tracking is based on public store data only — you add an extension by its Chrome Web Store ID or URL. There is no developer-account connection and no permissions grant required, for your extension or a competitor’s.

If your extension does not appear within the first 30 results for a keyword, cwspy records the position as “30+” rather than inventing a number or logging a fake drop. This keeps your history honest: a “30+” entry clearly means “outside the tracked range,” and the moment your extension breaks back into the ranked results, the real position is captured again.

A search market is the regional edition of the Chrome Web Store your rankings are measured in — currently EN-Global, Germany (DE), and Spain (ES). The same keyword returns different results in each one: an extension can rank #4 in the EN-Global market and #17 in the German market at the same moment. cwspy tracks each keyword per search market, so you see where you actually stand in every market you care about instead of one location’s view.

Yes. ASO (store search optimization) for Chrome extensions starts with knowing your real search positions, and cwspy provides exactly that: keyword-by-keyword rankings per search market, tracked over time. You can see whether a listing change moved your position, which keywords competitors rank for, and where you gained or lost ground — the measurement layer every Chrome Web Store ASO workflow needs.

Extension listing data — users, rating, version, category and featured status — is snapshotted automatically throughout the day, plus on manual refresh whenever you want an answer now. Keyword positions are checked automatically on the same schedule for every keyword you track on the extension.