What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Highlights matching closing and opening tags
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#5 on Marketplace for “highlight”, #213 on Open VSX.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| highlight | #5of 7,767 | #213of 364↓1 7d |
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
39 releases · first published Apr 2017
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Highlight Matching Tag’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.