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 kall

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

You should be able to switch sites just below the top menu bar on the right hand side. Note that the option only appears if you are managing multiple sites. If you want to add a second site, you can go to settings > manage accounts and add additional sites to manage. If you're not seeing the link you can send an email to insights@gravity.com with your site URL/name and we'll look into it.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by baghdad4ever

thanks installed

but we have problem with arabic username

is there any server load issue with this ?

re: arabic language, we'll look into it. I think we're supporting arabic language elsewhere so it may be a minor fix.

re: server load. No. We've battle tested Gravity Insights with large and small forums. Our web beacons are strategically placed so that web page content will always load quickly and communication between our web servers and yours is done asynchronously to minimize impact.

[kall]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

You should be able to switch sites just below the top menu bar on the right hand side. Note that the option only appears if you are managing multiple sites. If you want to add a second site, you can go to settings > manage accounts and add additional sites to manage. If you're not seeing the link you can send an email to insights@gravity.com with your site URL/name and we'll look into it.

Yeah.. I should be seeing it. It was always there, but at some point since y'all announced the Premium service and things changed, it disappeared.

Others are having the issue, I saw a few-day-old post on your support forums asking the same thing.

Email sent.

*edit* Going to Settings > Manage Sites first is a bit quicker than going to Manage Account then Manage Sites..

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by kall

Yeah.. I should be seeing it. It was always there, but at some point since y'all announced the Premium service and things changed, it disappeared.

Others are having the issue, I saw a few-day-old post on your support forums asking the same thing.

Email sent.

*edit* Going to Settings > Manage Sites first is a bit quicker than going to Manage Account then Manage Sites..

The bug should now be fixed! Let us know if you're still having issues.

[Skyrider]

Honestly, I've temp disabled this plugin. Getting multiple reports that within FireFox & Chrome typing messages are getting very slow, and I noticed this myself as well..

Within quick replies & editing messages.. When typing messages, you type much faster than the letters/numbers come on the screen.. Only happens when the browser is experiencing a huge lag. After disabling the plugin, it was all solved.

[lapiervb]

Looks good but why hasnt it been updated since April? Does it work with the several vbulletin updates since April. Also I see its $99 is it worth paying for the premium version?

[MikesSite]

I received this hack / service when I purchased vBSEO and a few weeks later I had to disable it. My forum has been running extremely slow since installing insights and my traffic has suffered drastically because of it. I disabled the hack and it seems better. It's a shame because this is a very nice addition to any forum, but it certainly seemed to slow down mine to the point of disabling.

FYI - I'm on a dedicated server too.

[S3Ponline]

That’s interesting.

Are you on 4.1pl2?

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by MikesSite

I received this hack / service when I purchased vBSEO and a few weeks later I had to disable it. My forum has been running extremely slow since installing insights and my traffic has suffered drastically because of it. I disabled the hack and it seems better. It's a shame because this is a very nice addition to any forum, but it certainly seemed to slow down mine to the point of disabling.

FYI - I'm on a dedicated server too.

Same here. BigBoard with quite a few servers running for diff services, yet Gravity Insights was slowing my forums! And support is terrible, I waited 1 week until I got a reply. I am a vbseo customer.

Great tool but I cant afford losing visitors.

[MikesSite]

Originally Posted by S3Ponline

That?s interesting.

Are you on 4.1pl2?

3.8.6 PL1

Originally Posted by COBRAws

Same here. BigBoard with quite a few servers running for diff services, yet Gravity Insights was slowing my forums! And support is terrible, I waited 1 week until I got a reply. I am a vbseo customer.

Great tool but I cant afford losing visitors.

Sorry to hear, unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you. The tool is very useful, but certainly no where near the loss of traffic. My traffic suffered a lot, in fact almost 10K less visitors in under a month.