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?

[dwkmi]

How is this better than Google Analytics?

[gravityinsights]

Thanks cfish for catching that one.

We changed that tag to be W3C compliant. The fix will be available in the next release.

Apologies to the Standardistas.

[cfish]

I'm really loving Insights - gives a great real-time overview of forum activity. The one thing I'd like to add is the ability to set your timezone so that the activity graph on the dashboard shows local time and corresponds to your own timezone setting on the forum.

[gravityinsights]

cfish - We hear you. It's on our roadmap. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[cfish]

OK, here's another request for the roadmap. The "New Members" statistic is potentially very useful for informing forum admins and mods of potential spam attacks. A sudden rise in registrations is a good indicator. Curently, this statistic is only available for today. It would be great to see this on a graph that showed the last 30 days. Or at the very least, to be able to compare today/yesterday as you can with visitors/pageviews etc.

[cfish]

Sorry, ignore my last post. I just found the "New Member Signups" under the "Traffic" tab. A little misleading but it's there none the less.

[civilwartalk]

Gravity,

This is a great utility/service you are providing, I'm really impressed with the information I'm getting.

I have question, this is a free plug-in, and you are giving forum owners a free service, and you claim that you aren't giving any third parties information without our consent, so how are you covering your expenses? Surely you wouldn't be spending lots of money developing this service for forums without some type of revenue generation, would you?

Sorry, but I'm just a little concerned about continuing use with your product, even though I really like it a lot....

[baghdad4ever]

thanks installed

but we have problem with arabic username






2- is there any server load issue with this ?



thanks

[civilwartalk]

Originally Posted by civilwartalk

Gravity,

This is a great utility/service you are providing, I'm really impressed with the information I'm getting.

I have question, this is a free plug-in, and you are giving forum owners a free service, and you claim that you aren't giving any third parties information without our consent, so how are you covering your expenses? Surely you wouldn't be spending lots of money developing this service for forums without some type of revenue generation, would you?

Sorry, but I'm just a little concerned about continuing use with your product, even though I really like it a lot....

Nevermind, now I get it!

[kall]

What's happened to the Switch Sites option on insights.gravity.com?