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?

[Skyrider]

Just installed, getting the error:

require_once(DIR . '/insights/insights.php'); set_error_handler('insights_errhandle'); $obj = new InsightsVbulletin($vbulletin); $gravity_output = $obj->getFooterCode($GLOBALS['foruminfo'], $GLOBALS['threadinfo']); $GRV_find = ''; $GRV_add_before = "$gravity_output". PHP_EOL; $output = str_replace($GRV_find,$GRV_add_before.$GRV_find, $output); restore_error_handler();

at the top of the forums.

Originally Posted by puertoblack2003

I like this concept but i noticed that it pulls info from sections that is private and not viewable to the public...

Check insightsconfig.php:

<?php
/** array of forum id's that you do not wish to transmit to insights
; they could be your private forums or your admin only forums that you don't wish to track
place one id for each element in the array
EXAMPLE:
$hidden_forums = array(23, 45, 498);
would not send data for categories 23, 45 and 498
*/
$insights_config['hidden_forums'] = array();

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by TeknoSounds

Oh hey, just for sh*ts and giggles, should like compile everyone who's hooked up to you stats as like a global stats from Gravity. Ya know how like gmail lists how much space they're providing everyone?
So not like detailed stats as far as usernames and threadnames n such, but like total pageviews, users online, etc.

Anyway, just a thought for fun I think it'd be interesting to see

Great idea! We've thought about this in the past, but haven't gotten around to it quite yet. Maybe we'll do it next time we rev the site design.

[Haifaa]

Hi gravityinsights

thank you for providing such services but when I tried to install it the forum page come with the attached warning page.

what is the problem?

(I'm new to manage forums ) (the var is 4.0.2) (Arabic forum)

your replay is highly appreciated.

thank you

[MRGTB]

I've just visited a forum were this hack is really slowing things down. I can see in my browser at the bottom stuff loading last and slow from: input.insights.gravity.com

I think others should know this service can slow your whole loading times down.

[TeknoSounds]

Right...there was a time when the gravity website was down and it was taking forever for my site to load on a refresh.

[gravityinsights]

Hey all - Please PM me if you are experiencing any latency with your site. This is very important to us and I want to get to the bottom of any issues.

Thanks!

[Trek]

Apparently the site is down as when anyone was making a reply to any thread, it would time out and throw DB errors as well as a script error in insite.php (if I remember the file correctly off the top of my head).

Disabling this mod, solved the problem. So basically it appears that when the logging server can't be contacted, it takes down you website... not good. Anyway, as I said, disabled it, all is working fine now.

[x626xblack]

Originally Posted by TeknoSounds

Today I noticed there was a user on the Recent Users that is not in my member list.

Why would it be picking that up?

user is lhx123456

That happens when a user registers and is in between registering and and activating with the activation email. Go to user ACP> User groups and you should see him /her listed as users awaiting email confirmation.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by Trek

Apparently the site is down as when anyone was making a reply to any thread, it would time out and throw DB errors as well as a script error in insite.php (if I remember the file correctly off the top of my head).

Disabling this mod, solved the problem. So basically it appears that when the logging server can't be contacted, it takes down you website... not good. Anyway, as I said, disabled it, all is working fine now.

thanks for the report Trek, we have been moving data centers to upgrade our potential capacity, and we experienced a network routing issue with several of our web boxes. This issue should be resolved on the gravity side and we're going to be rolling out a new plugin with better timeout support to detect and disable itself if this were to happen again.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

thanks,
Jim

[cfish]

This mod invalidates the XHTML doctype when checked at W3C. It's a shame because vB4 actually validates without this mod. The opening <script> tag does not contain the mandatory "type" attribute. It should be written as:

<script type="text/javascript">

Please action this because it's an easy thing to do and it will endear you to the Standardistas out there.

Those of you who would like to correct this problem now, do the following:

1. Open insights.php in a text editor
2. On line 119, find: $output="<script>
3. Replace with: $output="<script type=\"text/javascript\">
4. Save the file and upload to /forum/insights/, overwriting the previous version.