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I've noticed that, essentially on a daily basis, my app climbs roughly 20 places in the US chart only to absolutely plummet during the hours Americans are asleep. Obviously people aren't buying it during the night, but surely none of the other apps are being bought either... the ranking should stay level. The only thing I can think of is that the other apps are older than mine and have thereby built up a kind of "reputation" that the ranking algorithm takes into account. Anyone have any insight into this phenomenon?
I've noticed that, essentially on a daily basis, my app climbs roughly 20 places in the US chart only to absolutely plummet during the hours Americans are asleep. Obviously people aren't buying it during the night, but surely none of the other apps are being bought either... the ranking should stay level. The only thing I can think of is that the other apps are older than mine and have thereby built up a kind of "reputation" that the ranking algorithm takes into account. Anyone have any insight into this phenomenon?
I heard that the ranking algorithm takes into account your downloads over a number of days. If somehow the the timeframe shifts for your app during the night, it would drop, while during the day the timeframe might shift back to normal and your ranking would increase.
Just a thought, I have no idea if that's really how it works.
I do expect the demand for different types of apps changes throughout the course of the day, so I just chalk this down to demand for different types of apps being downloaded late at night and early in the morning e.g. sleep assist apps, exercise apps, breakfast recipe apps, news apps, TV/movie reference apps etc. If there are different types of apps being downloaded in the early hours, then relative demand for "regular" apps will be down during that time and rankings will drop only to bounce back during the day.
Have done no reference to back that up, but always seemed a safe assumption.
The ranking gets reset every day at midnight PST. I guess this is required due to the way the algorithm works, being biased towards downloads on current day, then last two days and so on.
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Just a thought, I have no idea if that's really how it works.
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0 · Off Topic Insightful Disagree Dislike Like AwesomeI do expect the demand for different types of apps changes throughout the course of the day, so I just chalk this down to demand for different types of apps being downloaded late at night and early in the morning e.g. sleep assist apps, exercise apps, breakfast recipe apps, news apps, TV/movie reference apps etc. If there are different types of apps being downloaded in the early hours, then relative demand for "regular" apps will be down during that time and rankings will drop only to bounce back during the day.
Have done no reference to back that up, but always seemed a safe assumption.
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