Improvements to Advanced view for plugin authors

[tellyworth]

This is a general ticket for iterative improvements to the Advanced view. Plugin authors in particular need better stats, and other improvements to help direct their attention to important issues.

[tellyworth]

Possible improvement: show trend line on downloads chart. (Also switch to columns for consistency?)

[tellyworth]

Possible new chart: show active install growth/shrinkage over time, with trend.

[tellyworth]

Possible new table: show recent popular search terms that led users to the plugin page. Only for plugin owners!

[tellyworth]

In 6245:

Plugin directory: add JS for active install growth chart.

Also add a trend line to the downloads chart.

See #3016

[tellyworth]

In 6249:

Plugin directory: add active install growth chart to advanced view.

See #3016

[obenland]

@tellyworth Any more work necessary here, or can this be closed?

[daveshine]

@tellyworth
You posted a suggestion about adding a new info for plugin authors about recent search terms - this was in February 2017. Is this still being worked on?

This would be a blessing for plugin authors to gather more information in order to make their plugin pages more friendly and relevant for users.

I agree that this should only be available to logged-in authors of the plugin (not committers, but the "owning" .org accunt only).

Can we expect this will land somewhere soon on our plugin pages?
I have quite a few plugins on .org and this would totally help me.

Thanks in advance!