vBulletin Manual

vBulletin allows you to retrieve statistical information about your online community from within the control panel - including the number of new user registations, posts or threads per day, week or month. The information can be displayed to you within the vBulletin control panel, or you can download it into Microsoft Word.

When you select the View link in the control panel (available under the Stats section), you will be presented with the following screen:

This form will allow you to specify the following paramaters:

Type of stats - Use this option to choose whether to look at the data for new posts, new threads or new user registrations
Date From and Date To - you can opt to show all information between a certain range of dates with these options.
Time frame - you can choose to group the data by day, week or month. This allows you to look for trends over the short, medium or long terms.
Sorting - choose whether to display oldest dates first, or most recent dates first.
Format - choose whether you want the results of the report to appear in the control panel (as HTML), or whether you would prefer to download a seperate file in Microsoft Word Format (as RTF).

When you click the submit button, the report will be generated. Please note that this is a fairly intensive process, and so the report may take several seconds to be generated. If you chose to view your stats in a MS Word style report, you will be prompted to save the file to your hard disk, and you will then be able to open it from there into Microsoft Word. The document will look a little like this:

If you chose to view your stats in a HTML format, the following screen will appear:

The bars that are colored red are those which indicate a number of posts/users/threads that is below the date range average. Blue bars indicate an above average number of posts/users/threads.