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?

[Bodero]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

bodero - that's something we're thinking about. would this be to exclude counting you and your moderators from being counted or did you have something else in mind.

That's exactly what I'd like to do (exclude myself).

[gravityinsights]

UPDATE: Users can now add multiple users to their accounts. The new users cannot create or delete existing users, but have full access. We have more fine grained access controls in later versions planned. You can access this by logging into insights and going to My Account -> Manage Users

thanks ,
Jim

[Jabong82]

I have a question. I just installed this and I noticed reading the above that one of the future features are:

"Sub forum analytics: A number of admins have asked for analytics on specific sub-forums."

All my activity for my website occurs in Sub-forums as I use the Forums to divide categories. So basically the site goes Forum->Subforum->Content.

No threads are actually created in forums, only the sub-forums. Does that mean I won't receive any data?

Thank you in advance.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by Jabong82

All my activity for my website occurs in Sub-forums as I use the Forums to divide categories. So basically the site goes Forum->Subforum->Content.

No threads are actually created in forums, only the sub-forums. Does that mean I won't receive any data?

Thank you in advance.

Jabong82 - Good question. The answer is NO. You will receive all the data. What people are requesting is that they be able to see stats on individual subforums. For example, right now you can easily see new content creation (new threads, new replies) and activity (thread views) happening anywhere in your forum. What you cannot see today (but which we're working on right now) is the ability to choose a particular sub-forum and just see the data for that sub-forum.

[bigcurt]

I don't think I need this mod for anything; but it LOOKS beautiful and looks like you did a great job.

[ssslippy]

So u copy all post information and resell it? So for those who have any private forums that data is sold. Their policy allows then to data mine your forum and sell everything u post may it be public or private.

So what stops u from selling my content?

[Jabong82]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

Jabong82 - Good question. The answer is NO. You will receive all the data. What people are requesting is that they be able to see stats on individual subforums. For example, right now you can easily see new content creation (new threads, new replies) and activity (thread views) happening anywhere in your forum. What you cannot see today (but which we're working on right now) is the ability to choose a particular sub-forum and just see the data for that sub-forum.

Thank you for your response.

I have one question though.

I have other moderators on my site that I would prefer to only be able to view information regarding the forum they moderate. Would this be a possibility in the future? Thank you.

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by ssslippy

So u copy all post information and resell it? So for those who have any private forums that data is sold. Their policy allows then to data mine your forum and sell everything u post may it be public or private.

So what stops u from selling my content?

We don't resell anything. From our terms:

Gravity will not share information collected through and explicitly associated with Your Site with any third parties unless Gravity (i) has Your consent; (ii) concludes that it is required by law or has a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Gravity, its users or the public; or (iii) is providing such information to third parties to carry out tasks on our behalf (e.g., billing or data storage) subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on Gravity's instructions and in compliance with this Agreement and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

[gravityinsights]

The Plugin has been updated to version 1.5.0 and is now more stable with some performance enhancements. It is a highly suggested upgrade to increase accuracy and increase speed.

[malas2007]

right now everything is okay, thank you.