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Nicolas Raoul
Nicolas Raoul

Reputation: 60213

Android Market statistics: "This is inclusive of updates"

In the "Statistics" link of each application I have published in Google's Android Market, the install counts is described as:

Total active installs represents the number of devices on which the application is currently installed. This is inclusive of updates.

Does this mean that if a user installs and updates twice, only 1 will get counted? It would be the most natural way to count, but somehow I fail to understand "This is inclusive of updates" so it makes me doubt.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1290

Answers (2)

Nicolas Raoul
Nicolas Raoul

Reputation: 60213

x0n's answer was true until 18 October 2011, but now Market says:

As of 18 October 2011 developers may notice a decrease in the active install counts displayed in their Android Market Developer Console. Some app updates were being counted as active installs. We are now using a different calculation methodology which does not incorporate installing an app update. Going forward the active installs metric will correctly reflect the device installations. Please note that total install counts were not affected.

Strangely, the statistics page's footnote still says:

Total active installs represents the number of devices on which the application is currently installed. This is inclusive of updates.

I reported this incoherence to Google.

Upvotes: 2

x0n
x0n

Reputation: 52440

No, it means that if a user installs once and updates once, it appears as two installs on the market. This is obviously favourable for Android to inflate statistics.

Upvotes: 3

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