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Markdown Character Count - a status bar contribution that reports out the number of characters in a Markdown document as you interact with it.
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 25 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| status bar | #353of 2,533↓2 7d | — |
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
3 releases · first published Jul 2016
Character Count’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.