Facebook Application Statistics Get an Overhaul

It is safe to say that the facebook f8 platform for 3rd party developers to launch applications on the facebook infrastructure, is a massive hit. Over 5000 applications have now been developed and more are flooding facebook everyday.

This has led to a call by developers and investors to be able to get more detailed stats on how their applications are doing. Facebook responded by introducing stats that tells you how many users are active on each application in any given day. This was a step in the right direction but left people wondering how many installs they had.

Facebook has moved quickly to rectify the problem and are now doing even better to improve the application statistics. Here is an overview of the changes from the facebook developers blog:

"Tonight we launched a stats page for applications in our effort to give you guys more information about how your apps are doing. Currently, the page displays some basic information about the number of adds, removes, blocks, and total users, as well as a summary of sampled HTTP requests for your app. You can check out the application stats by following the "More Stats" link underneath your application name on the right-hand column of this page. We’ll continue to add relevant and interesting data to the page as we can. In the meanwhile, if you have any suggestions for improvement or other stats that you'd like to see, please let us know on the wiki ."