Statistics Modifications - Gravity Insights: advanced forum statistics & analytics

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

1. Crackberry
2. Mothering.com
3. Poke Community
4. PBNation
5. vBSEO
6. 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?

[V8Owner]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

hi Peter, everything starting to look ok on the stats now?

Everything is working very well now thank you .

It really does give you some great insights into your own forum.

Looking forward to getting a month of data.

Any chance in the dasboard you can add a "yesterday" column next to the today realtime results. Just to show what happened yesterday.

It is a little confusing being in another time zone in Australia.

Thanks for all your help, very happy

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by V8Owner

Everything is working very well now thank you .

Any chance in the dasboard you can add a "yesterday" column next to the today realtime results. Just to show what happened yesterday.

definitely a great suggestion, we'll roll that into our product plan

thanks for the feedback.
Jim

[TeknoSounds]

Greetings, I noticed an issue with links to threads.

I currently have my forums in another folder besides the site root, however links in insights show from the site root.
i.e. normal link:
http://teknosounds.com/messageboard/...1-DnB-in-Texas

Link from insights (real-time stream, tho all other links will end up doing the same, giving a 404 not found error)
http://teknosounds.com/showthread.php?t=20521

Also for a suggestion based on V8Owner's post, have a user-based setting for timezone offset.

[gravityinsights]

hi TecknoSounds,
we allow the option to configure a "thread mask" in the My Account -> Manage Sites section of insights. I have set this for you just now, but if you were to add another site you can read the help file on thread masks to see how to set this up in the future. Let me know if you have any other issues
thanks,
Jim

[rsuplido]

Any update on granting 'Normal Users' access to the stats?

[TeknoSounds]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

hi TecknoSounds,
we allow the option to configure a "thread mask" in the My Account -> Manage Sites section of insights. I have set this for you just now, but if you were to add another site you can read the help file on thread masks to see how to set this up in the future. Let me know if you have any other issues
thanks,
Jim

Ahh! Thanks sir! Much appreciated

[TeknoSounds]

Oh hey, just for sh*ts and giggles, should like compile everyone who's hooked up to you stats as like a global stats from Gravity. Ya know how like gmail lists how much space they're providing everyone?
So not like detailed stats as far as usernames and threadnames n such, but like total pageviews, users online, etc.

Anyway, just a thought for fun I think it'd be interesting to see

[Jabong82]

Does Gravity do custom work for hire? Like say if we wanted to display some stats in a different way to better suit our forum?

[puertoblack2003]

I like this concept but i noticed that it pulls info from sections that is private and not viewable to the public...

[TeknoSounds]

Today I noticed there was a user on the Recent Users that is not in my member list.

Why would it be picking that up?

user is lhx123456