cwspy.com

cwspy is a Chrome Web Store rank tracker: keyword positions, user growth and ratings by search market — checked automatically throughout the day, with alerts.

cwspy is a Chrome Web Store rank tracker for extension developers, marketers and agencies. It monitors an extension's keyword search positions (per search market: US, DE, ES), exact user counts over time, ratings, version history and competitors — data the official Chrome Web Store developer dashboard does not show. Tracking uses public store data only; no developer-account access is required. Extension listing data is refreshed automatically throughout the day (plus on-demand refresh), and positions are checked automatically for every keyword tracked on an extension.

Pages

• Home: product overview, features, how it works, use cases, FAQ
• Blog: guides on Chrome Web Store SEO, publishing, promotion and analytics
• Privacy Policy
• Terms of Service

Blog articles

• How Much Money Can a Chrome Extension Make?: How much money can a Chrome extension make? The honest range, the revenue formula, the levers that move it, and how to size a market before you build.
• How to Price a Chrome Extension: Tiers & Strategy: Chrome extension pricing in practice: value vs. competitor benchmarking, one-time vs. subscription, tiers and anchoring, and measuring a price change.
• Chrome Extension License Keys & Subscriptions: How a Chrome extension license key works end to end: external checkout, validating keys in a Manifest V3 service worker, and the security limits to expect.
• Monetize a Chrome Extension with Ads (Safely): How to monetize a Chrome extension with ads without getting removed: what is allowed, what gets you delisted, disclosure, and the Manifest V3 myth.
• Chrome Extension Monetization Models Compared: Chrome extension monetization models compared: freemium, license, subscription, usage-based, ads and B2B — with effort, revenue and risk trade-offs.
• How to Monetize a Chrome Extension (2026 Guide): How to monetize a Chrome extension in 2026, now that store payments are gone: freemium, licenses, subscriptions and ads — and how to measure them.
• Chrome Extensions Under Enterprise Policy: What Changes for Developers: How ExtensionInstallForcelist and managed deployment differ from a normal install, why user numbers may not match your marketing, what admins screen for.
• What 'No Longer Supported' Means for a Chrome Extension — and How to Avoid It: The four real causes behind a "no longer supported" Chrome extension, what each means, and what a stretch of that status costs your listing.
• Manifest V3 and Ad Blockers: What You Can (and Can't) Build Anymore: What still works for a Manifest V3 ad blocker, what capability is genuinely lost with declarativeNetRequest, and how to migrate without overpromising.
• Manifest V3 for Chrome Extensions: What Changed and Why It Affects Your Ranking: What Manifest V3 actually changes — service workers, declarativeNetRequest, permissions — and how the migration touches Chrome Web Store ranking.
• Why Is My Chrome Extension Disabled? The Manifest V2 Deadline Explained: Chrome is disabling Manifest V2 extensions in stages. What that means if your extension went gray, how to check if you're affected, and how to migrate.
• How to Promote a Chrome Extension: 12 Channels That Work: Chrome extension marketing beyond "build and hope": store search, content, communities, launch platforms — and how to tell which channel grows installs.
• How to Publish a Chrome Extension in 2026 (Step by Step): A practical walkthrough of publishing a Chrome extension: developer account, listing, review process, and what to track once it's live.
• Chrome Web Store SEO: How Extension Ranking Actually Works: How Chrome Web Store search ranks extensions, what chrome web store seo means for your listing, and how to measure whether changes move positions.

FAQ

• How is this different from the Chrome Web Store developer dashboard? 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.
• How is this different from an all-in-one analytics dashboard? 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.
• Do you need access to my Chrome Web Store developer account? 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.
• What does a "30+" ranking mean? 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.
• What is a search market? A search market is the regional edition of the Chrome Web Store your rankings are measured in — currently the US, Germany (DE), and Spain (ES). The same keyword returns different results in each one: an extension can rank #4 in the US 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.
• Does cwspy help with Chrome Web Store ASO? 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.
• How often is the data updated? 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.