Your Higher Logic Vanilla (Vanilla) community includes several out-of-the-box analytics tools to help you track, measure, and report on the activity and health of your community. When you can identify the strengths and weaknesses of your community, you can be more successful at developing strategies that will enable you to reach your community's goals.
📝 NOTE: We recommend placing third-party tracking within your site in the Dashboard > Appearance > Branding & Assets > Style Guides > Edit a Theme. If you have any questions, contact Vanilla Support.
Analytics options
Vanilla has three analytics options; the one available in your Vanilla community is dependent on when you became a Vanilla customer and/or your plan level.
- Vanilla Statistics is our most basic analytics feature. It is available as the default (and only) option for our older customers on our Basic and lower plans.
- Advanced Analytics is the default option for our more recent customers, featuring a more robust suite of analytics data.
- Analytics BETA (an updated version of Advanced Analytics) is our most feature-rich analytics offering. It is the default option for all new Vanilla customers, and is available to all cloud customers who have Advanced Analytics as part of their subscription.
Learn more
Check out the article below to learn more about each of these Analytics offerings.
Analytics API
You can also query the analytics and leaderboards via our API. Note that doing so is technically complex and should be done by an experienced developer.
📝 NOTE: For information and assistance, contact your CSM.
Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics
You can complement your Vanilla analytics with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics by adding in the Google Tag Manager embed code as described in: