Vanilla Analytics - Vanilla Success
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p>Vanilla comes with a number of out of the box Analytics options to help you track, measure, and report on the health and activity of your community. Being able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your community is crucial in developing successful strategies to reach your community goals. </p><p>Vanilla offers you the ability to integrate third party solutions such as Google Tag Manager & Analytics, and Adobe Omniture through our Pockets feature.</p><h2 data-id="vanilla-statistics">Vanilla Statistics</h2><p>If you are on our legacy Business plan, you will see our Vanilla Statistics under the Analytics tab where you will find a graph which gives you insights into your community's metrics. You can adjust the time frame from the top right calendar picker and choose to view the graph by Month, over longer time frames, and by Day, for shorter time frames.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/J4PM9CUWFADV/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/J4PM9CUWFADV/image.png" alt="User: "User: "image.png""" height="180" width="320" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>Users </strong>- Number of new Users who have joined the community within the chosen time frame.</li><li><strong>Discussions</strong> - Number of new Discussions published to the community within the chosen time frame.</li><li><strong>Page Views</strong> - Number of Page Views on the community within the chosen time frame. <em>This will include page views made by Guests.</em></li><li><strong>Comments </strong>- Number of new Comments published on the community within the chosen time frame.</li></ul><p><strong>Recent News</strong></p><p>In this section of your Dashboard you will find the most recent blog articles and news from the Vanilla team. This is a great resource to keep yourself up to date on both community best practices and the most recent Vanilla updates.</p><h2 data-id="vanilla-analytics">Vanilla Analytics</h2><p>If you are on our Essential or higher plans, you will have <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/433-analytics-beta" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">Vanilla Analytics</a> automatically enabled and can take advantage of all of our Out-of-the-box dashboards as well as have the ability to create your own custom dashboards and charts.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/YX2NU4TD6GCT/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/YX2NU4TD6GCT/image.png" alt="User: "image.png"" height="180" width="320" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Overview With Vanilla’s updated Analytics experience you can: run out-of-the-box reports to measure the health and activity of your Vanilla communities and build custom Analytics dashboards to create your own reporting and visualize the data that matters most to you. Enabling the Analytics Experience Update Our updated…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/VWGAXAF5OFCO\/microsoftteams-image.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/433-analytics-beta","embedType":"link","name":"Analytics BETA - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/433-analytics-beta" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/433-analytics-beta </a> </div><p><br></p><h2 data-id="analytics-api">Analytics API</h2><p>You also have the ability to query the analytics and leaderboards via our API however you will need to have a developer resource to do so as it is very complex. For more information please contact you CSM and they will assist you.</p><h2 data-id="google-tag-manager-and-analytics">Google Tag Manager and Analytics</h2><p>A large number of our clients compliment our Analytics solutions with their own Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. They are able to achieve this by adding in the GTM embed code into a Pocket.</p><h3 data-id="read-more">Read more</h3><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Google Tag Manager Setup Setup Google Tag Manager for webpages, by using the following steps from Google - or watch the video above. Adding Google Tag Manager to Foundation Theme The following applies to Foundation themes and for those looking to measure Google Analytics activity in the Vanilla KB. You will have two…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/VWGAXAF5OFCO\/microsoftteams-image.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/136-using-google-tag-manager-with-vanilla-forums","embedType":"link","name":"Google Tag Manager & Vanilla Forums - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/136-using-google-tag-manager-with-vanilla-forums" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/136-using-google-tag-manager-with-vanilla-forums </a> </div><p><br></p> </article> </main>