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?

[relaxiha]

Hello. I registered my name. But does nothing to download! Where to download? Where should I install and being?

[gravityinsights]

Hey Relaxiha - Sign into your account. The first time you sign in it will take you directly to the download page. Let me know if you have any problems.

[relaxiha]

I registered my. But what came to download! Only here can be compiled
http://insights.gravity.com/dashboard

[relaxiha]

i find and installed thanks.

INSTALLATION ----------------------------------- 

1. Upload the insights directory to your vBulletin webroot. After the upload it should look like: vbulletin_webroot/insights

2. Access your admin panel. 
	* On the left hand side click on Plugins and Products. 
	* Click on Manage products. 
	* Click on Add/Import Product
	* Choose to upload the product XML file from your local computer
	* Browse to find the product-gravityinsights.xml product file
	* Click "IMPORT" button
	* It should import properly, once it's uploaded you're done. You
	  may now log into your insights account (please note it may be a day before your account is fully up and running)

[gravityinsights]

relaxiha - Glad to hear it! I should have mentioned the install instructions are in README.txt which is included with the plug-in downlad.

[HoSStiA]

How to config Thread Mask etc. for forum with vBSEO installed?

[gravityinsights]

HoSStiA - The default thread mask should work fine. vbSEO renames your URLs, but leaves vBulletin's thread structure intact. A quick example using vbseo.com:
*vbSEO thread URL: http://www.vbseo.com/f55/subdomain-41325/
*standard vBulletin thread URL: http://www.vbseo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41325

Both URLs render the same thread. So, the mask would simply be http://www.vbseo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=%thread_id%

I'm happy to check out your site and let you know how to setup the mask. PM me an URL for a random thread.

[Kolbi]

Want to see some screenshot

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by Kolbi

Want to see some screenshot

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.