What Are Vanilla Dashboard Analytics?
All Vanilla hosted plans includes basic analytics which allow forum administrators to review vital activity on their forums over specific time periods.
What is the difference between Dashboard Analytics and Advanced Analytics?
The Dashboard Stats is more useful for technical means. The “pageviews” for example, are a true total of how many times the page was accessed, regardless if it was accessed by a human or by a bot— in other terms, this stat is also counting web crawlers into the total of "page views”.
The Advanced Analytics (a paid option powered by Keen.io) is intended as more of an indication of how the health of the community — this is more sophisticated and filters out web crawlers and bots in order to identify true human users.
The users in the dashboard reflect the number of new registrants during the time period that you select. Note that this is a different metric than the “active users” in the Advanced Analytics refer to the number of users who logged into the community for the date specified (regardless of if they were a user for years or are a new registrant).
Advanced Analytics
You will see an overview of your community’s analytics by clicking on the ‘Dashboard’ tab. For more in-depth data, click on the ‘Analytics’ tab. (The advanced analytics seen in this tab are available on certain subscription plans only.)
The site overview will present you with the following:
- Number of page views generated for the time period
- Number of new users that have joined the community for the time period
- Number of new discussions that have been created for the time period
- Number of new comments that have been created for the time period
Using the tabs at the top, you can view daily or monthly stats. The arrows will let you select the time period you are viewing.
Vanilla Statistics will also create a rolling table of data on the following:
Using the tabs at the top, you can view daily or monthly analytics. The arrows will let you select the time period you are viewing.
Vanilla will also create a rolling table of data on the following:
- Most Active Users
- Most popular discussions discussions
Using the tabs at the top, you can view daily or monthly analytics. The arrows will let you select the time period you are viewing.
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