hi lemonadesoda... to address your privacy issue. If you have a private forum you do not wish us to track you can mark it in our config file and we will not log any data for that forum at all. For example some of our largest clients have confidential admin only forums which they mark as private and those stats aren't recorded. If you have a public site, all the information we gather is publicly available already.

thanks,
Jim

Been using this for a while now. Find it very useful to see what my members are viewing and how I can structure commonly searched items better. The team has been quite responsive in tweaking the product to run better and provide better information.

I'm looking forward to upcoming features as well...

With the ability to exclude forums, I went ahead and installed. Pretty cool so far, only have a small amount of data yet to play with of course so I can't see some of the functionality yet.

Will/is it possible to get some of this data on our forums? I'd like to be able to display what the most active conversations are, etc. Would make perfect forum blocks and CMS widgets.

Also, I'd like to see more integration with vBulletin as far as config options go. I have a large list of forums to exclude, etc. Would be nice if we had (through the AdminCP) a way to select what forums we WANT, or the ones we want to exclude. Whichever is smaller. Much easier to maintain that way.

hi Trek thanks for the feedback. We're definitely planning on opening up these APIs to forum admins so you can surface this data on your site in the very near future, along with "trending topics" (one of the things we do with the post content).

On the vbulletin admin CP panel integration issue... We run on some of the largest forums on the net (proboards, pbnation.com, etc..) and they're #1 concerns are performance, ease of integration and maintainability. Having the IDs manually entered in the config file allows us to not require any integration with your database or have the need to write to files on disk. When you're dealing with 400+ servers it's alot easier to tweak a file and rsync it over to all without needing to tweak the permissions as well.

thanks,
Jim

Hi Trek, Thanks for the note. Yes, post content and images are sent to Gravity Insights. If you have specific forums you do not wish to track, you can set those forum IDs in your config file and no data will be tracked or transmitted for those forums. Just to be clear, post and image content is not transmitted “anyone else.” It’s transmitted to us so that we can provide advanced features to you that wouldn’t otherwise be possible (like trending topics and the live content / media streams). We’re working on additional functionality now that will provide you a better sense of your users' interests similar to how services like Quantcast provide demographic data. We think that this type of information will be invaluable to forum operators who are trying to monetize their sites and attract new advertisers.

We appreciate your concern and thanks for the feedback.

Nice add-on!!!
Tagged. :)

Haven't heard anymore updates on this matter. Makes my site look bad.

This has effected the "body_background" and the stylevars for body_background is set correctly. I hate to lose data already collected :( I love it.

Please let me know how close you are in correcting this anomaly?

Bug on: http://insights.gravity.com/dashboard

i lose a chunk of my pages too. is it just a case of changing where it hooks into the page?

i have no idea what i'm talking about...

for those having the footer issue PM me and I'll work with you today to get a resolution. I've contacted those who've already submitted the issue and hopefully we'll get it resolved today asap.

If you are having the issue if you could load up the page, view source and copy/paste that into an email to insights@gravity.com it will help me to understand the problem faster.


thanks,
Jim

done.

quick fix: edit Insights - Pageview Beacon template and

replace with this:

When i install the plugin i get an http 500 error "
The website cannot display the page

obviously uninstalled for the time being.

edited the product xml file and that seems to have fixed it.

about to test the official fix now...

official fix does the job too

hi all, thanks to raistlinthewiz, Matt and Pete for helping debug the issue. We have the official fix included in this thread now and the download from http://insights.gravity.com has been updated to 1.3.1 as well.

Please let me know if you come across any other issues :)
thanks,
Jim

Works fantastic, thank you for the fix :) :) :)

welcome, thanks for re-installing :)

Hmm this isnt breaking my forum anymore but it doesn't seem to be recording any data. Ill gve it a good 36 hours to see what if anything is recorded.

If you installed the updated version, did you put your site_guid in the siteconfig.ini ? Possibly that may be the problem. Just a thought. :)

No i actually downloaded it from the official site after i registered. Was told no file edits are required if downloading from the official site. I appreciate your help though..
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Edit my bad you are correct i quickly downloaded the updated file from vB.org so yup that would be my problem. Off to make a quick edit now. ;) thanks for the tip.
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I find after watching the information displayed on Gravity-Insights web-site, the information gathered not totally accurate, at least not compared to my AWSTATS for the site.

Correct me if I'm wrong, please, the only information collected is from the forum, not the CSS. So all articles read or moving around from home page is not recorded, is this correct? An example is; Yesterday AWSTATS page views indicated 73K, Gravity-Insight shows 9.72K. That's quite a bit off.

I also have Downloads II, PhotoPost, and Classifieds, I don't believe those areas are recorded either.

This could be a complete misunderstanding in my part, perhaps an explanation of exactly each item represents would help.

I don't mind sharing my sites information, but I do want the information to be an accurate representation.

I find the streaming information to be interesting and helpful, but the numbers are critical for me to sell my site for advertising.

hi Matt, you are correct that only the forum data is tracked right now. If there is enough interest we could provide a piece of javascript that could be used on all pages for other pages on the site.

Some of our bigger forums like the separation so they compare how their community is doing vs the rest of the site.

I reinstalled and nothing has changed.

The same problem:

Got this installed from your site so no need for editing any files ? is this correct ?

When i view the dashboard it has "no data found" any reason why this is showing ?

Does this change after say 1 day or have i done something wrong ?

cheers in advance

hi guys, we pushed a new download of the plugin at http://insights.gravity.com
1.4.0 It should address the remaining issues we've been seeing. If you have any other problems feel free to email me directly at: insights@gravity.com
thanks,
Jim

also, I am seeing some data come in without a proper siteguid so please double check your insightsconfig.php or siteconfig.ini files to make sure you have a valid siteguid from insights.gravity.com

thanks
Jim

Well after the latest update all my problems have been solved. I love this unique way of tracking our forum specific data. A+ stuff. Wondering if we can switch the stats to operate within our forums Default timezone?

the live search stats are an amazing tool. love this

awesome! glad we were able to get it working for you. Currently the times are PST but we do have time zone bases stats scheduled for the future.

let us know if there's any other features you'd value

thanks,
Jim

Are you still having these issues? Have you verified that your config file has a valid siteguid?
Email me and we can walk through it together if you're still having issues... insights@gravity.com

thanks,
Jim

sorry for the late reply, but all is working great now, must of just needed a day to collect the data ?

cheers

Thanks! Installed.

What about the ability to have other webmasters view the statistics but not be able to edit any information.

For example i have 3 other admins but do not want to give them my login information to the Gravity Insights website. An option for me to grant them access to those stats would be good. :)

how about adding last weeks stats to the charts??

that's available :)
PM me to get it set up. The front end hasn't been finished yet but the backend fully supports multiple users on an account.

there is a mixture of realtime and daily data that gets processed, depending on how complex it is to run across the data.

Snug - coming very soon. :) we're working on doing a better job of letting admins look at historical data (last week, last month, etc.).

I'll give it a shot, looks interesting.

PM sent.

Another question - can there be a setting in the config file to exclude either certain usernames, IPs, or user groups?

bodero - that's something we're thinking about. would this be to exclude counting you and your moderators from being counted or did you have something else in mind.