SharePoint App-store analytics

Big SharePoint Add-in (App) store analytics

Hi everybody, here will be a lot of images with interesting analytics from store and my thoughts about it. At the end of the post you will understand metrics of storage and keep in mind some key points of existing add-in tends.
Also at the end of the post you can find short conclusion of my analytics together with answer on question "How did you build it?"

Just remember before read:

• Data was collected 05.12.2015
• I`m trying to show base metrics for understanding. 
• I do not follow commercial goals, it`s just analytics. So if you see your app in a picture - you are lucky man!

Let's do it!

1. Rating vs Price
   
   
   * 966 apps in store.
   ** More than half are free.
   *** Average price of paid app is 69$. Here I did little trick, I didn`t take into account the type of payment, per month, per user, whatever.
   
   
   * Paid apps are selected, as you can see from left bottom chart almost half of zero-rating apps are paid.
   
   
   * 186 apps with rating 4.5 and more.
   ** From charts you can see that there are no direct connection between price and rating.
   
   
2. Reviews
   
   
   * There are 580 app without reviews at all. I think that it is connected with complexity of adding reviews for users, because they usually have to go through 4-5 pages from their app to get to the review page in app store. And it is terrible.
   ** The vast majority of apps has 3 and less reviews, it can mean everything, but especially I think that it is related to low level of user activity in the sore.
   *** HIDDEN BONUS: "Contact us form" from Microsoft has 41 review!
   
   In next charts of this topic I excluded apps without reviews to make this step of analytics more accurate.
   
   
   * If select just free apps then you can see (right chart) that the volume of highly-rated (more than 5) apps is mainly belongs to free apps.
   
   
   * If select just apps with 1 comment we see interesting picture, almost half of apps with average rating 5 and 4 has only ONE review which I take really questionably. Because, you know, each provider will leave at least one review for his lovely app by himself :)

In conclusion

(If you don`t want waste your time looking on these magnificent charts)

• On the 05.12.2015 there are 966 apps (407 paid and 559 free);
• Average price of paid app is 69$ (not taking into account the type of payment);
• There are 580 app without reviews at all;
• There are no direct connection between price and rating;
• Almost half of apps with average rating 5 and 4 has just ONE review;
• There are 477 app-providers
• Management is one of the most popular words in app description;
• In 2015 number of paid apps is growing but free is falling down;
• 23.04.2014 were released max number of apps - 74;
• Top app categories: Productivity, Content Management, Site Design, Social Media, Workflow & Process, Communication.

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by Sergey Shiroky via Everyone's Blog Posts - SharePoint Community