Chrome Extension Statistics

Profitable tracks more than 300,000 live extensions in the Chrome Web Store, holding over two billion installs between them. The distribution is extremely top-heavy: under two thousand listings have passed 100,000 users and fewer than three hundred have ever crossed a million.

The median Chrome extension has a single-digit user count, and more than three quarters have fewer than a hundred. Under a tenth ever reach a thousand users, and well below one percent pass 100,000. A handful of breakouts hold most of the installs while the typical listing stays tiny.

Among extensions with any reviews at all the median rating is 5.0, and roughly seven in ten rated listings sit at 4.5 stars or higher, so the bar is high. But more than half of live extensions carry no rating whatsoever, because most never collect enough installs to attract a review. Getting a first review matters more than protecting a perfect average.

Profitable tracks well over 100,000 distinct developers across the live store, so the typical developer publishes only two or three extensions. The store is far more fragmented than the mobile app stores: there is no dominant publisher, and most listings come from solo builders or tiny teams rather than companies.

It can be, but go in clear-eyed: the store is crowded and most extensions never clear a hundred users. The best odds come from a specific niche, or from rebuilding an abandoned extension, since about a quarter of live listings have not been updated in two years and many still have users waiting for something that works.