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Provide better extension downloads stats #2025
Description
Currently, the application only records a counter of downloads per extension; this isn't ideal as it loses traceability and we don’t know which version of the extension is being downloaded.
If a malicious extension were to be published, it would be essential to understand its impact to enable appropriate action.
My proposal is to use a time-series database for storing download events, providing extension authors with easy-to-use tools. This would also offer a simple and effective way to visualise an extension’s growth over time.
References
A good example of the desired outcome can be seen in npmx.dev's stats tab. Although to achieve that same level of UX/UI we need to switch from MUI charts.
Reacted by Alperen Cetin
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[-]Provide a better extension downloads stats[/-][+]Provide better extension downloads stats[/+]hacetin commentedon Aug 5, 2026
I would like to have this feature as well. We could use it to see trends like downloads/installs/updates and metrics for specific versions.
gnugomez commentedon Aug 8, 2026
@hacetin AFAIK from openvsx side there's no distinction we can make between a download/install/update for us its just a download, that could only be determined from the IDE side.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
netomi commentedon Aug 24, 2026
fyi: with #2089 there is now also information about the size of each extension stored in the DB. We can use that also for statistics or the extension details page.