Comments on: Contributions- a look at some numbers

By: Top Glendale

Top Glendale — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:51:25 +0000

This is great, now I get to see how much money i donated for the addons! haha. thanks

By: Vin

Vin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:41:24 +0000

@seo wales, i think you missed the point of my comment. Im not too concerned about “how much” an addon is generating…im after the volume of contributions for the addons in the graph. if one of the most popular addons (lets say AdBlock+) were to request $1, $5, or $25, it would probably have a much higher number of contributions, regardless of the price, based solely on the fact that it is downloaded so many times per week.

By: Chuck Baker

Chuck Baker — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:45:42 +0000

I, too, would like to see a graph of suggested donation amount (x-axis) vs average $/download (y-axis). That way I could see, for instance, of all the add-ons that suggest a donation amount of, say, $1.99, those add-ons averaged $0.002 per download.

By: seo wales

seo wales — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:30:00 +0000

@Vin, I disagree. I think a popular addon will not be able to charge as much, if they charge a lot then someone else will just remake the addon, also that people will think this is just a feature that should be there anyway and so won’t believe they should pay a lot.

The smaller volume addons could be niche and highly desirable and so could net larger donations (but overall of course will still likey take less revenue). FWIW.

By: Vin

Vin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:28:03 +0000

Can you put some data behind which addons are requesting which dollar amounts? An addon that gets downloaded hundreds of thousands of times per week probably has a better shot at a higher volume of contributions than a download with only one hundred downloads a week; regardless of the contribution amount.

It might be helpful to see: contributions vs downloads percentage per addon, as I assume that will paint a clearer picture of the contribution frequency per requested dollar amount.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:03:38 +0000

This is interesting feedback. I think one more plot would make it a lot clearer (to me at least) what is the optimal price… In your number of transactions vs transaction amount there is no way to know if the reason $5 is the highest is b/c more addons request that amount. Would it be possible to see a plot with number of transactions divided by number of addons with that suggested donation vs amount of the suggested donation or something similar to that?

Thanks for the awesome work you all have been putting into help out us devs.

By: Michael Kaply

Michael Kaply — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:48:52 +0000

> The top 6 amounts are all under $5, with the notable exception of the $10 category.

I think you meant $5 or under since the top amount was 5 dollars.