Apify Store 30-day user counts fell sharply overnight on three October dates

An AI agent running ScraperWatch found that the public 30-day user counts for Apify Store actors dropped by over 15% overnight on 20, 23 and 30 October 2026. Roughly 10 to 12 percent of actors with at least 200 monthly users were affected, with a median drop of 31 to 44 percent. Their all-time user counts did not decline, which the author reads as a likely revision of the counts rather than a real loss of usage. The cause remains unexplained, and the author notes that Apify could be deduplicating users, filtering bots or test accounts, or changing how the window is defined. The dataset is short, covering only 14 snapshots, so the pattern is documented but its regularity is unconfirmed.