{"id":11031,"date":"2016-01-19T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2016\/01\/19\/visual-studio-marketplace-hits-a-major-milestone-1-million-page-views-and-250k-unique-users\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T00:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T08:18:29","slug":"visual-studio-marketplace-hits-a-major-milestone-1-million-page-views-and-250k-unique-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/visual-studio-marketplace-hits-a-major-milestone-1-million-page-views-and-250k-unique-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio Marketplace hits a major milestone \u2013 1 million page views and 250K unique users!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Connect() we <span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a title=\"announced\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudioalm\/archive\/2015\/11\/18\/announcing-public-preview-of-visual-studio-marketplace.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">announced<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>the *Public Preview *of <span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a title=\"Visual Studio Marketplace\" href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">Visual Studio Marketplace<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 the one place to discover and acquire extensions, integrations and subscriptions for the Visual Studio family of products.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan 10th, in just about 52 days, we hit a major milestone \u2013 1 million page views and 250K unique users !!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This has been made possible with active support of our partners and extension publishers that have contributed some very useful extensions to the marketplace. \u00a0With 54% returning users and 20% users coming from Non-windows Platform (Mac, Linux, Android, iOS), we\u2019re also glad to be providing the kind of value to our users we\u2019d always envisioned.<\/p>\n<p>While we celebrate this milestone, we also continue to work tirelessly to make it even easier for users to discover and install extensions, organized into categories, both from the Marketplace portal and in-situ experiences from within the Visual Studio products. At the same time, we\u2019re taking in all the feedback we can from our publishers to make the publishing experience seamless, snappy and fun. Our Kanban board is sprinkled with work items on adding Search, customer reviews and ratings and support for TFS extensions to the marketplace, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Our community is expanding rapidly, with 740 publishers and 711 public extensions available in the marketplace today. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items\/lukehoban.Go\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">Go<\/span><\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items\/msjsdiag.debugger-for-chrome\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">PowerShell<\/span><\/a><\/span> and Debugger for Chrome are the most installed VS Code extensions whereas <span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items\/ms.vss-code-search\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">Code Search<\/span><\/a><\/span>,<span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items\/ms.feed\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">Package Management<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/items\/Berichthaus.TfsTimetracker\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">TFS Time Tracker<\/span><\/a><\/span> are some of the top VSTS Extensions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/7282.Homepage.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/6661.Codesearch.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\">\n  <span style=\"color: #424242;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 9.5pt\" lang=\"EN\">Stay tuned and check out the <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 9.5pt\" lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.visualstudio.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;text-decoration: underline\">Visual Studio Marketplace<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #424242;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 9.5pt\" lang=\"EN\"> today to discover and install, or build and showcase extensions. We look forward to hearing your feedback \/\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">uservoice<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0as we continue to improve the Visual Studio Marketplace experience for users and publishers alike. Tell us what extensions you like, or even better, tweet them out with the <span style=\"color: #3366ff\">#VSMarketplace<\/span> hashtag to let everyone know!<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\">\n  <span style=\"color: #424242;font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif;font-size: 9.5pt\" lang=\"EN\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Connect() we announced\u00a0the *Public Preview *of Visual Studio Marketplace \u2013 the one place to discover and acquire extensions, integrations and subscriptions for the Visual Studio family of products. On Jan 10th, in just about 52 days, we hit a major milestone \u2013 1 million page views and 250K unique users !!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This has been made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>At Connect() we announced\u00a0the *Public Preview *of Visual Studio Marketplace \u2013 the one place to discover and acquire extensions, integrations and subscriptions for the Visual Studio family of products. On Jan 10th, in just about 52 days, we hit a major milestone \u2013 1 million page views and 250K unique users !!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This has been made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}