Statistics Modifications - [DBTech] vBAnalytics v1 (vB4)

vBAnalytics: What is it?
vBAnalytics provides detailed and customized analytics from traffic including bounce rates, landings, pageviews, visits and many more customized just for vBulletin! Think Google Analytics but made for vBulletin!

Uses
If you ever wanted Google Analytics to provide more attention to your forum specific aspects than this is a must have for you. It provides statistics specifically requested from experienced board owners and displays them in an friendly and knowledgeable manner. Allowing even the most novice of board owners to know exactly what his users like and dislike in his community.

Use vBAnalytics to see how your individual forums are doing overtime, great to see if recent changes to boost activity there actually worked. You could do the same thing to individual pages in your forum, to see if recent changes to boost activity on those pages actually worked. With the pro version you can monitor search trends, to see what your users are searching on your forum and what links they click from the search allowing you to tailor to the needs of your community.

The benefits of this mod can raise your traffic and your overall member experience by showing exactly what the most and least popular aspects of your forum is. Tracking landings, bounces, visits and pageviews is a quintessential part of finding out where work needs to be done in order to improve your forum's activity and success.

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Please remember to click the, button to the right if you installed the mod ---->

What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features
Automatically Track Analytics: Automatically track forum analytics. Daily or hourly scheduled tasks ensure data integrity and consistency without any involvement from you.

Flexible & Comprehensive: From forums, threads, members, registrations, searches and overall analytics tracking, vBAnalytics is the most comprehensive analytics add-on for vBulletin. Allowing you to specify what exactly you want to track and how the tracked data displays to you.

Comparing Data: Allows you to compare different data from different time periods to easily compare via graph and aggregated results.

Real-time Stats: You can see the exact analytics of your forum in real-time without having to wait like you would in other Analytics systems.

Conversions: Monitor new registrations to see how your site appeals to new users. Track register bounce rates, pageviews & time before and after members register to your site!

• Daily analytics tracking for:
  • Entire forum
    • Visits
    • Bounces
    • Pageviews
    • Pages/Visit
    • Total Time on Site
    • Average Time on Site
    • Referrals
  • Forums
    • Replies
    • Threads
    • Visits
    • Bounces
    • Landings
    • Pageviews
    • Pages/Visit
    • Referrals
  • Pages (this_script)
    • Visits
    • Bounces
    • Landings
    • Pageviews
    • Pages/Visit
    • Referrals
  • Registrations
    • Registrations
    • Activated Accounts
    • Bounces
    • Pageviews before and after registering
    • Posts
    • Time on site before and in the process of registering
    • Average time on site before and in the process of registering
  • Admin Defined Threads
    • Visits
    • Bounces
    • Landings
    • Pageviews
    • Pages/Visit
    • Referrals
    • Posts
    • Posts/Day
  • Admin Defined Members
    • Visits and the areas they were made in.
    • Bounces and the areas they were made in.
    • Pageviews and the areas they were made in.
    • Posts and the forums they were made in.
    • Threads and the forums they were made in.
    • Pages/Visit
    • Total Time on site.
    • Average Time on site.
  • Analytics for Searches
    • Amount of Searches
• Detailed graph shows timeline of analytics.
• Choose the metric you wish to compare in the timeline.
• Shows aggregated results of all metrics below graph.
• Compare two different time periods and/or page/forum/search/thread.
• Ajax-enabled browsers can compare and view analytics without page refresh.
• Google Analytics-esque page design to improve user expierence.

• Analytics Administration
  • Statistics Page shows analytic stats of today in real-time
    • Most Active Pages/Forums/Threads
    • Least Active Pages/Forums/Threads
  • Maintenance page to update the date of the first post in each forum and the total thread views for each forum.
  • Analytics Searching shows analytics stats of today in real-time for:
    • Forums
    • Threads
    • Pages
    • Searches
    • Sessions
  • Settings
    • Enable Modification
    • Enable Navbar Tab
    • Forum Integration
    • Default Overview - Number of days in the past to show for default in the analytics viewer.
    • Google Analytics template integration.
    • Enable hourly tracking instead of daily tracking. (Pro)
    • Threads to Track Over Time
    • Users to Track Over Time
    • Update Forum Total Views
    • Option to prune sessions older than x days.
• Per Usergroup
  • Can view vBAnalytics

Pro-only Features:

• Front-end
  • In-depth Conversions (New Registrations) tracking.
  • Average Time on Site.
  • Analytics for Searches.
• Analytics Administration
  • Option for hourly tracking.
  • Scripts to Exclude
  • Forums to Exclude

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• Link to Product Description page of this modification

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Notes:

1. Do not run any of the scheduled tasks manually. They are set up to run at the allotted times for a reason. If you run a scheduled task manually your analytics data will be extremely inaccurate.

[Sforums]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Hi,

I've uploaded a hotfix that may fix this issue. Even if you are not getting this issue you should apply this update as it will slightly increase the accuracy of the analytics.

Please redownload the package and upload:

• dbtech/vbanalytics/hooks/global_complete.php
• dbtech/vbanalytics/hooks/global_start.php
• dbtech/vbanalytics/cron/sessions.php

No product re-import will be necessary.

- Jon

Thanks, it works now.

[DragonByte Tech]

Hello,

1.0.4 of vBAnalytics has been released. It includes many of the hotfixes I've provided here since initial release.

vBAnalytics 1.0.4:

• Fix: Certain third-party AJAX based add-ons would show a PHP warning.
• Fix: Rare database error that would be caused sometimes due to sessionhash conflicts.
• Fix: A few template typos in: dbtech_vbanalytics_results
• Change: Reworked session tracking into a manner that follows a session even if they log-out then log-in, etc.

To apply the update, you'll need to download the zip file, unpackage it then upload and overwrite the files. In addition, you'll need to reimport the product XML files as I've corrected some template typos.

[Qwest]

Does this cover one of the most important metrics? That being registration funnel.

Like, how they arrived, what keyword they used or where they were linked from initially so we know what traffic sources/keywords are sending us users that register?

[CharlieDelta]

Will you be adding the option to remove the "HiVelocity Hosting" from the copyright footer as with all other DBT mods?

[RRCamellini]

someone already installed version 1.0.4 in vb 4.1.11 without errors?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Qwest

Does this cover one of the most important metrics? That being registration funnel.

Like, how they arrived, what keyword they used or where they were linked from initially so we know what traffic sources/keywords are sending us users that register?

Registrations and referrers will be covered in 1.1.0 which will be ready soon.

It will show the exact referrer of every user.

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Will you be adding the option to remove the "HiVelocity Hosting" from the copyright footer as with all other DBT mods?

Wow. Sorry about that . We use a shell to quickly create the outlines of new mods and, for some reason, the setting for that wasn't included. I will make sure the shell gets fixed and that the option is added in 1.1.0. In the meantime, if you want to manually remove the copyright we won't hold it against you- or you could forward me your ACP information and I can do it for you if you are unsure how.

Originally Posted by RRCamellini

someone already installed version 1.0.4 in vb 4.1.11 without errors?

I have received no error reports on here or back at our support forums regarding v1.0.4.

[DragonByte Tech]

Update:

v1.1.0 Beta has been released at our forums. Following a successful beta period a lite version will be released which includes an update to this thread. Full details of what's new in v1.1.0 can be found at our forums and will be posted here following the lite release.

Included in this release are registration and user tracking, Google Analytics template integration, and, as promised, the Hivelocity branding removal option.

- Jon

[Mukashi]

Just had a member of staff on my forums notice that the analytics page remains visible regardless of what the settings are in the admin CP for their usergroup (including for unregistered users). Anyone else having this issue?

[Andyrew]

This has stopped working on my forums, seems to be around the 24th, not sure if that's when I updated vb or not but the graph has just flat lined ever since.



EDIT: Now I see why it's showing this, because it thinks I had 88811 visits on the 24th. Actual visits was 4,282

[ptceuro]

thanks so much!!