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?

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by Ramsesx

You'll find screenshots on the Gravity site.

Some feedback, install was quick and easy and it's interesting to see the realtime visitors online and stats but I am not really sure if this are at the moment really usefull informations (for me). One bug, if clicking on a thread listed under Today's Most Viewed Conversations there opens a new page but says not input files specified.
Serverload seems normal although this is catching informations on real-time. One question, what's happening if your Gravity site is down for any reasons? Will this result any bad impact to my site?

Thanks for this addon.

Ramsesx - Thanks for the feedback!

Regarding the thread bug, clicking the thread should take you to a preview of the thread. If it doesn't work, check that you set up your thread mask properly (in Account Settings -> Manage Sites).

Regarding your question, the Gravity Insights beacon is very light, so you should not notice any latency. If Gravity were ever to go down, we'd simply miss activity on your site during that time. Your site will still load properly and request to our servers will quickly timeout.

[andyv72]

hello...
Need help...

After install:

Warnung: require_once([path]/insights/insights.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 1)

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/web1222/html/insights/insights.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/***/******/html/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 1

[Ramsesx]

Have you uploded all files andy, especially the insights.php?

[Greight]

Please post some screenshots.

[raistlinthewiz]

i've installed insights on my 4.0.2 pl1 forums but it brokes the forum layout when i enable it...

check the screenshot:

[Storyteller69]

How is the transfer of the user IP addresses handled? Are thereby completely transmitted and evaluated, or they are partially "rendered useless"?

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by andyv72

hello...
Need help...

After install:

Warnung: require_once([path]/insights/insights.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 1)

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/web1222/html/insights/insights.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/***/******/html/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 1

andyv72 - let's connect thru email and i'll help you trouble shoot.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by raistlinthewiz

i've installed insights on my 4.0.2 pl1 forums but it brokes the forum layout when i enable it...

raistlinthewiz - thanks for the screenshot. checking it out now! i'll get back to you.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by Greight

Please post some screenshots.

Added a couple screenshots for you. you can also check out our website: http://insights.gravity.com.

[GoldenChaos]

This is great stuff - I've been having some issues with accuracy, but otherwise I'm very impressed and this blows any other forum stats option (especially vBulletin's built-in horror) out of the water.

Kudos, Gravity.