How does everyone measure active/super active users? ie people who have logged in or commented in the past month, for example. The dashboard tells me the number of visits and comments etc, but I don’t know how to chunk this down easily into actual users. We’ve got 1400 members on our community, but…

The data explorer plugin will let you look at the data in a more granular fashion than the basic information which admin>dashboard shows. See, for example, Active users in the last 30 days

Oo sounds interesting, how do I go about setting that up? I’m not a developer so have no idea where to begin.

See “Installation” at the bottom of: Discourse Data Explorer

These queries will help: Top 50 posters Returns the top 50 posters for a given monthly period. Results are ordered by post_count. It accepts a ‘months_ago’ parameter, defaults to 1 to give results for the most recently completed calendar month. -- [params] -- int :months_ago = 1 WITH query_period…

you could also get in touch with @DiscourseMetrics.com and @Bas (about Community Analytics) their tools can give you loads of extra stats so you don’t have to do the work … I’m looking at such tools at the moment myself Up till now I’ve been doing this just in excel - you can export your user data…

[image] robmc: I’ve found that most analysis tools are under-valuing the role of readers because of a focus just on the activity of posting. There is a big difference between inactive members and active readers! I think you are correct in saying this. There are ways (e.g. separating logged i…

Great queries Sarah! Thanks for share. I updated the query list , if you have more to add, please just send PR :pray: Thanks again !

[image] SidV: Great queries Sarah! Thanks for share. I can’t take credit – @simon wrote them.

how to get the daily counts based on unique IPs ? is the Dashboard> User Visits based on IPs, (including logged in users and vistors ?) thanks…

[image] deepblue: is the Dashboard> User Visits based on IPs I don’t think so. It is about logged in users. [image] Admin dashboard report reference guide User Visits The total number of user visits in the forum for the selected time period (today, yesterday, last 7 days, etc). A User Vi…

How to measure active users?

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HAWK (Hawk) November 23, 2017, 8:36pm 11

I can’t take credit – @simon wrote them.

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