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?

[VonDoom]

Originally Posted by molieman

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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Exit information: A couple of admins asked if we could track what the last conversation that a user viewed was – especially for guest users.

[molieman]

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.

[gravityinsights]

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.

[pitt34]

I reinstalled and nothing has changed.

The same problem:

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to services_DashboardInfo::setSite() must be an instance of site_Model, instance of stdClass given, called in /var/www/insights/application/default/controllers/DashboardController.php on line 25 and defined in /var/www/insights/application/default/services/DashboardInfo.php on line 48

[betts02]

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

[gravityinsights]

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

[gravityinsights]

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

[VonDoom]

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?

[VonDoom]

the live search stats are an amazing tool. love this

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by VonDoom

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?

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