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Advanced Analytics

Advanced Analytics Overview

Advanced Analytics, available on certain plans as an add-on, give you further insights into your community.

Metrics: A single number that quantify something for the selected date range.
Leaderboards: Tables showing the ranking of specific items for the selected date range. The “previous” rankings are calculated using the rankings of the previous date range.
Graphs: Line, Area, Pie chart and Bar graphs use the selected date range to group the fetched information. Pie charts represent multiple values for the entire selected date range.

Posts Positivity Rate: Number of posts having a positive reaction divided by the number of posts having a negative reaction.
Average Time to First Comment: Average amount of time it took for discussions to have their first comment.

Members by Accumulated Reputation: Members in order of the highest sum of reputation point accumulated.
Discussions with Most Comments: Discussions in order of the highest number of comments received.
Discussions with Most Positive Reactions: Discussions in order of the highest sum of positive reactions received.
Discussions with Most Negative Reactions: Discussions in order of the highest sum of negative reactions received. This leaderboard will only be displayed if negative reactions are in use.

Participation Rate: Number of unique members that viewed a page on the forum vs the number of visits by unique users.
Sentiment Ratio: Number of posts having a positive reaction vs the number of posts having a bad reaction.
Visits per Active User: Number of visits divided by the number of active users.
Average Posts per Active User: Average number of created posts grouped by active users.
Average Comments per Discussion: Average number of created comments grouped by discussions.
Average Posts per Active Users: Number of posts divided by the number of active users.

Discussions with Most Views: Discussions in order by the highest number of accumulated views.

Active Users: Number of users that logged in to the community.
Visits: Number of visits. Including guests.
Unique Visits by Role Type: Number of visits, from registered users, grouped by role types.
Page Views: Number of total page views.
New Users: Number of all new registrants to the community.

Users with Most Posts: Members in order by the highest number of post created.
Users with Most Discussions: Members in order by the highest number of discussions created.

Discussions: Number of discussions created.
Comments: Number of comments created.
Posts: Number of posts created.
Posts by Type: Number of created posts grouped by post type.
Posts by Category: Number of created posts grouped by categories.
Posts by Role Type: Number of created posts grouped by role types.
Contributors: Number of distinct members having created a post.
Contributors by Category: Number of distinct members, having created a post, grouped by categories.
Contributors by Role Type: Number of distinct members, having created a post, grouped by role types.

When multiple lines are displayed, the series are stacked, i.e. the values on the Y axis are a cumulative total for each point.

Questions Asked: Number of questions asked.
Questions Answered: Number of questions answered. Questions created outside of the time range are included.
Answers Accepted: Number of answers accepted. An answer can be accepted by either the creator of the question or a moderator/administrator.
Average Time to Answer: Average amount of time it took for questions to have their first answer. Questions that have no answers are not counted.
Average Time to Accept: Average amount of time it took for questions to have an accepted answer. Questions without an accepted answer are not counted.

Questions with Most Views: Questions in order by the highest number of accumulated views.
Users with Most Answers: Members in order by the highest number of answers created.
Users with Most Accepted Answers: Members in order by the highest number of answers created and then accepted as the best answer.

Active User: User that are logged in.
Post Type: The post types are; discussion and comments.
Role Type: There are 4 existing role types and they match the highest permission level that a user has.
admin: Administrator -> Garden.Settings.Manage
cm: Community Manager -> Garden.Community.Manage
mod: Moderator -> Garden.Moderation.Manage
member: Everyone else