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 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

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

[betts02]

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

cheers

[BlackJacket]

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.

[Snug]

how about adding last weeks stats to the charts??

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by BlackJacket

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.

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.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by betts02

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

cheers

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

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by Snug

how about adding last weeks stats to the charts??

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

[doopz]

I'll give it a shot, looks interesting.

[Bodero]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

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.

PM sent.

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

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by Bodero

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.