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Did the Play Store move today?

Apple never announces an algorithm change. So every morning we compare every tracked keyword and every top-100 chart we hold with the day before, and count the share that moved ten places or more. A calm day means what changed is yours; a shaken day means wait before you touch anything.

Play: tracked keyword positions on the search page, no charts (Google publishes none).

6 Play keywords tracked so far. The Play reading needs two mornings of positions; it starts the day after the first phrases are tracked. Track Play keywords

Today · every storefront

Collecting

Two mornings of data are needed for a first reading.

Keywords
0 of 0
tracked positions moved ≥10
Charts
0 of 0
top-100 rows moved ≥10

Last 30 days

share of watched positions that moved

12 Aug10 Sep

calm, under 15% moderate shaken, 30% and over

By storefront

The same reading per country. A shaken storefront on a calm day is a local change, often a category re-ranking.

Two mornings of snapshots are needed for the first per-country reading.

Shaken days

None yet. When a morning crosses 30% it gets its own dated page here, with who climbed and who fell.

What to do on a shaken day

  1. 1. Do not touch the listing. A change you make today gets credited or blamed for Apple's move.
  2. 2. Open My keywords: the yesterday column shows which of yours moved, and whether the whole store moved with them.
  3. 3. Wait a morning. Half of the shaken days settle back the next day.

How the reading is made

Two samples, every morning at 07:20 UTC
Every keyword tracked on aso.best, position today against yesterday in the same store. And every top-100 chart we snapshot: 22 storefronts, free, paid and grossing, every category for the largest stores.
What counts as moved
Ten places or more, or leaving a list from a position that was not already at its edge. Small moves happen every day and are ignored.
Calm, moderate, shaken
Under 15% moved is a normal day. 30% and over is shaken and gets a dated page. The keyword sample is ignored on days with fewer than 20 comparable positions, so a thin sample cannot swing the reading.
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