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App Store Discovery and Engagement

Analyze how users interact with your app on the App Store.

Overview

The App Store Discovery and Engagement report provides details about how users engage with your apps on the App Store itself. This includes data about user engagement with your app’s icons, product pages, in-app event pages, and other install sheets.

  • Territories: Worldwide

  • Platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS

  • Availability:

    • Daily: Every day.

    • Weekly: Every Friday for the previous week (Monday to Sunday).

    • Monthly: On the fifth day of the following month.

  • History: On request, data is available beginning from January 1, 2024.

  • Completeness: Within three days. Weekly and monthly reports are complete by default.

  • Privacy: Data is available in two reports: standard and detailed. Standard reports include fields not easily related to uniquely identifiable user data. Detailed reports include all fields and also include additional privacy measures for the data, to help protect uniquely identifiable information for individuals. Download the standard report unless you need to analyze the unique fields in the detailed report. To learn more, see Protecting user privacy in report data.

The Analytics Reports framework delivers new portions of report content as instances. Each instance can contain one or more batches of data, to accommodate late-arriving events, or in rare cases, data corrections. To learn more, see Data Completeness and Corrections.

Report Fields

Report Field

Description

Data Type

Standard Report

Detailed Report

Date

Date on which the event occurred. For weekly and monthly instances, this column represents the first day of the week and month, respectively.

date

App Name

The name of the app provided by you during app setup in App Store Connect.

string

App Apple Identifier

Your app’s Apple ID.

integer

Event

The type of event that occurred.

string

Page Type

The page type associated with the event.

string

Page Title

The name of the product page or in-app event page that led the user to discover the app.

string

Source Type

Where the user discovered the app.

string

Source Info

The app referrer or web referrer that led the user to discover the app.

string

Campaign

The Campaign Token of the campaign created in App Analytics. Column available starting November 19, 2024.

string

Engagement Type

User action, if any, on the impression or page.

string

Device

The device on which the event occurred.

string

Platform Version

The OS version of the device on which the event occurred.

string

Territory

The App Store country or region in which the event occurred.

string

Counts

The total number of events that occurred.

integer

Unique Counts

The total number of unique users that performed the event.

integer

Glossary

Dimension

Value

Definition

Event

Impression

A user viewed your app icon in a list alongside other apps, including in search results, charts, and the Today, Apps, and Games tabs. Page views are not included in these counts.

Event

Page view

The user was presented with a dedicated page for your app or in-app event.

Event

Tap

The user tapped on an impression or page for your app or in-app event.

Page Type

No page

Your app was presented to the user outside of a dedicated page, such as in a list alongside other apps.

Page Type

In-app event

An in-app Event page.

Page Type

Notification

An App Store notification.

Page Type

Product page

A product page.

Page Type

Store sheet

An App Store Skstoreproductviewcontroller.

Page Type

App version history

Your app’s version history page.

Page Type

App privacy

Your app’s privacy detail page.

Page Type

Developer page

Your developer page.

Page Type

App accessibility

An app accessibility detail page.

Page Type

Media view

Pages containing your app’s media (such as screenshots and previews).

Page Title

Various

The name of the product page or in-app event page that led the user to download the app. Possible values include the name you set for your page in App Store Connect, default product page, no page, or null.

Source Type

App Store search

Users who discovered your app within search results on the App Store. Includes Search Ads results. Doesn’t include the Suggested section of the search landing page.

Source Type

App Store browse

Users who discovered your app while browsing the App Store. Includes results in the Suggested section of the search landing page.

Source Type

App referrer

Users who discovered your app from within another app. Includes impressions and page views loaded in a Skstoreproductviewcontroller. Includes Apple apps, such as Messages, except Safari.

Source Type

Web referrer

Users who discovered your app after browsing a website in Safari.

Source Type

App Clip

Users who discovered your app from within an App Clip.

Source Type

Notification

Users who were presented with your app from within an App Store generated notification.

Source Type

Unavailable

The source type is unavailable. Includes apps downloaded using App Store gift cards, promotional codes, or Mobile Device Management software.

Engagement Type

Get

The number of taps on the Get, Buy, or Pre-order button. To differentiate between these values, view the App Store Download and App Store Pre-Order reports.

Engagement Type

Update

The number of taps on the Update button.

Engagement Type

Redownload

The number of taps on the Download button.

Engagement Type

Open

The number of taps on the Open button.

Engagement Type

IAE reminder

The number of times a user activates a reminder for your in-app event.

Engagement Type

IAE reminder deactivated

The number of times a user de-activates a reminder for your in-app event.

Engagement Type

Notification tap

The number of taps on a notification.

Engagement Type

Share

The number of taps on the Share button.

See Also

App Store Engagement