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?

[molieman]

Installed a vB 4.0.2. p1

FANTASTIC!!!!! Thank you from a number cruncher

Lost white background color on forum page, after install.

[pitt34]

One question and one problem:

How to change timezone in Gravity Insights Dashboard?

I have something like that "czy akap nie jest r�wnia pochy�� do niewolnictwa? " in Today's Most Viewed Conversations in Dashboard.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by pitt34

One question and one problem:

How to change timezone in Gravity Insights Dashboard?

I have something like that "czy akap nie jest r�wnia pochy�� do niewolnictwa? " in Today's Most Viewed Conversations in Dashboard.

We're not supporting multiple time zones for the time being. All times are in Pacific time (UTC -8). Sorry.

Regarding the crazy characters, we may be having some character encoding issues. Let me know if you keep seeing things like that.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by molieman

Installed a vB 4.0.2. p1

FANTASTIC!!!!! Thank you from a number cruncher

Lost white background color on forum page, after install.

Thanks!

I think the background color issue is the same as the bad footer error noted by some other users. Workin on it!

[dacho]

Thanks
But I did not understand why I need your site to get the Google Analytics data

[Snug]

installed... love it, cant wait to see this in action after a few days of activity

[molieman]

Originally Posted by molieman

Installed a vB 4.0.2. p1
Lost white background color on forum page, after install.

Actually effected all my forum pages

Would hate to uninstall this beauty, any clue on a fix for this? or why this may of happened?

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Never mind, I didn't see the above response

[mialutz]

Love love love my gravity insights! Some very awesome information and they guys have been very prompt with assistance when I've needed it. We're running it on a private forum with about 5500 members at this point.

Did I mention I love it!

[lemonadesoda]

^^Private forum? What information is transmitted to Gravity Insights?

If you have Gravity Insights installed, when a user visits your community you transmit traffic information (such as which webpages a user views) and user activity information (such as post content and related metadata). By transmitting this information to us, we are able to enable Gravity Insight's killer features without putting a significant load on your servers.

TBH, I think gravity have done an EXCELLENT job. Looks great, and nice info. But be warned about privacy/confidentiality issues if it is relevant to you.

[pitt34]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

We're not supporting multiple time zones for the time being. All times are in Pacific time (UTC -8). Sorry.

Regarding the crazy characters, we may be having some character encoding issues. Let me know if you keep seeing things like that.

Are you going to support multiple time zones?

Sorry, I didn't desribe the problem precisely. "Crazy characters" are instead Polish diacritic sings, so you don't support latin-2 encoding.