Gravity Insights: real-time forum statistics & analytics

[gravityinsights]

Gravity Insights real-time forum analytics

UNDERSTAND YOUR FORUM CONTENT AND USERS. MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.

Gravity Insights is a real-time forum analytics service. Gravity Insights is the only analytics service designed to help forum administrators understand their content and users and make their sites better. With Insights, you?ll have a detailed understanding of who comes to your site, why they come to your site and how they interact with your content.

Please visit http://insights.gravity.com for more information.


Feature Highlights
Dashboard

Hourly trends for the last 24 hours
Recent stats & trends (pageviews, visitors, new members, new threads, new replies, searches)
Active Threads
Active Users
Trending Topics


Real-time Dashboard

Real-time stream of new threads
Real-time stream of new media



Who's using Gravity Insights

Crackberry
Mothering.com
Poke Community
PBNation
vBSEO
and hundreds more



What people are saying?

Kevin Michaluk, Co-founder Crackberry.com: "Insights does an outstanding job giving us an instant overview of what's happening in real time on the CrackBerry.com forums. There's always a ton of activity and sometimes it's hard to keep up. Gravity Insights not only shows us which threads are the most active, but also gives us an easy way to identify new members who are contributing great content."

Ed Rieker, President of PbNation: "There are a lot of generic analytics services out there. Gravity Insights is NOT one of them. Insights does an amazing job of distilling all the activity in our community into useful information. Monitoring the forum in real-time has also never been easier. Because of Gravity Insights, I now know exactly what's happening on our site. The Gravity team is outstanding, a pleasure to work with and very responsive to our needs. I highly recommend them."

Patrick Clinger, President and CEO, ProBoards, Inc.:"With Gravity Insights I can see what's happening across the millions of ProBoards forums. Gravity Insights is the first analytics service that I've found that includes relevant forum statistics and can scale to meet our heavy traffic volume. As a big analytics user, I continue to be surprised by all the new things I'm discovering with Gravity Insights."



How does Gravity Insights work?
It?s pretty simple. Gravity Insights is a standard vBulletin plugin. Once installed, Gravity Insights puts a lightweight beacon (similar to Google Analytics) on every vBulletin generated webpage. In addition, Gravity Insights has custom hooks that initiate asynchronous server-to-server calls between your vBulletin server and the Gravity Insights servers. These hooks allow Gravity Insights to track all the things that standard analytics software can?t track (like new threads, new replies, new member registrations, etc.).


Requirements to use Gravity Insights
Gravity Insights has been tested with very large and very small forums. You?ll need vBulletin version 3.6 or later to use Gravity Insights. Gravity Insights also supports phpBB, Vanilla Forums, and ProBoards.


Legal stuff?
Gravity Insights is copyright protected by Project Rover, Inc. You?re free to use Gravity Insights (subject to our terms and privacy policy) on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid license.


Anything else?
Drop us an email at insights@gravity.com if you have any questions.

If you try Gravity Insights, please click mark as installed and rate the plugin to show your support. And again, let us know what you think ? good or bad! How can we make Gravity Insights better for you?

[Floris]

Looks very interesting. Will dive into this and compare it against what we already use internally.

It might be a good side tool together with quantcast and google analytics

[gravityinsights]

Looks very interesting. Will dive into this and compare it against what we already use internally.

It might be a good side tool together with quantcast and google analytics

Thanks Floris! Let us know what you think.

[Brandon Sheley]

Looks interesting, seems a lot like woopra was when it was free
are there plans to charge for this service at some point?

[gravityinsights]

Looks interesting, seems a lot like woopra was when it was free
are there plans to charge for this service at some point?

We've reserved the right to charge in our terms. We don't plan to charge for basic analytics service, but may create a premium pay version at some point.

[Phobos49]

Looks good! Installed. Thank you!

Question: Is it possible to change the timezone of the graph?

edit: Can anybody tell me the difference between "Replies" and "Conversations"?
edit2: Difference between "Conversation Views" and "Pageviews"?

edit3: This plugin ends up in an error-message on forumhome by the browser saying: "Error: 'VBAnalyticsCookie' is undefined! -> so I deactivated it for the moment

[ctrlbrk]

Tagged. Looks interesting and nicely done -- will keep an eye out for next release ;)

Mike

[PixelFx]

looks interesting, may have to try it with our sites

[final kaoss]

I'll give it a shot

[gravityinsights]

Thanks all! Let me know what you think if you get it installed. I'm planning some major additions to the service and would love to hear feature requests.

[final kaoss]

How about real time referral tracking. Kindof like how extremetracking does it.

Last referrals & last search engine referrals.... except show us more than 20 of each at a time

http://extremetracking.com/open;ref1?login=rarlab2

[6piston]

hi gravity insights, thanks for this great tracker! loving the real time display :)

[tidefans]

Hi.
Great product. Thanks for releasing it!

For all links pointing to specific threads (i.e. in the Live Stream Thread, Content page, etc) it is not putting in the /forums/ directory after my domain name.

For example http://www.mydomain.com/showthread.php?t=103590 SHOULD BE http://www.mydomain.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103590

The insights directory is located at http://www.mydomain.com/forums/insights

Can you help me understand what I need to do to fix this?

[gravityinsights]

Hey all - We've been busy adding new features to Gravity Insights. Some of the latest new features include:

Traffic sources (sites & search terms)
Detailed sub-forum stats
On-site search
User behavior
Historical stats


If you already have a Gravity Insights account, just go to http://insights.gravity.com and log in to see all the updates. As always, we'd love to hear from you with any questions, feedback or feature requests.

Thanks,
The Gravity Insights Team

[vlady2k]

add win-1251 support, please.

[rsuplido]

Looks great! I've installed it on two sites.

As I have just installed it, will it be able to get all the the data in the forum and create stats from them?

What are 'Normal Users' and how do you grant them permission to see the stats? I created a Normal user and it says: "We're sorry but it appears you don't have access to view this page." Any way I can grant a user to a specific site only?

Also, please add support for date ranges and not just 'Today'. Looks like the 'Group By: Yesterday | 2 Days Ago | April 2010 | March 2010 | February 2010 | Year' is good enough.

Thanks for creating this!

[rsuplido]

Looks like 1.5.1 files were updated and yet the version is still 1.5.1

Anyway, product-gravityinsights.xml has an extra single quote at the end of line 27.

[gravityinsights]

Looks like 1.5.1 files were updated and yet the version is still 1.5.1

Anyway, product-gravityinsights.xml has an extra single quote at the end of line 27.

thanks for the catch, fixed and re-uploaded :)

[Audax666]

Hi,
here is my Feedback.
I like this mod! I don't see exactly yet, what efforts it provides me, but it's very interessting to browse through the analytics data.
And teh new version has lot more than the previous!
Good work!

Has anone some hints who do you use the stats to push your board?
What are your favourite or most helpful stats?

[wtrk]

I tried this for a few days. It didnt work very well. first off the 3.8.x version of the plugin is corrupted and you cant unzip the file so i tried the 4.x version. The real time stats didnt work right, it didnt track the new user signups and a bunch of other things didnt work quite right. Its a neat idea, just needs a lot of work.

[gravityinsights]

I tried this for a few days. It didnt work very well. first off the 3.8.x version of the plugin is corrupted and you cant unzip the file so i tried the 4.x version. The real time stats didnt work right, it didnt track the new user signups and a bunch of other things didnt work quite right. Its a neat idea, just needs a lot of work.

What OS are you running? I just downloaded and unzipped the mod on my OS X and Windows 7. The zip doesn't appear to be corrupt. BTW, it easiest just to get the plugin from insights.gravity.com since it saves you the hassle of putting the GUID into the plug-in yourself.

Regarding inaccuracies, The 3.8 version and 4.0 version of the plug-in are different, which was probably the cause of some (if not all of the inaccuracies).

Anyways, we'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can make it better! Thanks for the heads up.

[psychonikeo]

just installed and working perfectly overhere!

One thing, here it's 1.5.2 and on your site the download is 1.5.1

[boomcar68]

Installed,but it seems it's not working properly.
First i get a white screen when going to the http://www.f-f-f-clan.com/forum/insights.php
I also get an error at the top of the page....
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home2/fffclanc/public_html/forum/global.php(827) : eval()'d code on line 175 :confused:

Can some1 help me out?

[BirdOPrey5]

Downloaded from the insights website, installed as directed... got the following error on top of all forum pages:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/{mysite}/public_html/forums/global.php(834) : eval()'d code on line 116


Had to disable for now... any ideas?

vB 3.8.6 PL1.

Line 116 of my global.php file is:

$vbulletin->userinfo['lastvisitdate'] = -1;

[MikesSite]

Forced to uninstall, slowed my big board down WAY too much.

[BirdOPrey5]

I ended up uninstalling too- too many complaints from users the browser was 'waiting' on gravity insights... but it was a great service when it worked...

[need2fart]

Will this display a graph in the users page? For example this page from city-data.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/12/38.png

^ Is that Gravity Insights?

[BirdOPrey5]

No. I've never seen that mod before.

[gravityinsights]

At 12:00 AM Pacific time on April 28th, 2012, Gravity Insights will be permanently shut down and you will no longer be able to log in to the service to view your forum analytics.

Prior to shutdown, you should remove the Gravity Insights plugin from your website. You can find step-by-step instructions for uninstalling the plugin on our support site:
http://support.insights.gravity.com/index.php?p=/discussion/131/gravity-insights-permanently-shut-down-as-of-april-28th-2012

If you have any questions, please send us an email to insights@gravity.com.

Thank you,
The Gravity Insights Team