How to see your Discord server’s activity, growth and best posting time
Analytics shows your server in numbers: how many members write or talk, which channels are alive, when people are online and how many newcomers stay. It is part of Premium and counts by itself from the moment your server has it.
Takes about 2 minutesFree, Premium raises limits
What you will end up with
Six numbers with their change against the period before, a chart per day, the busiest hour of the week, your top channels and members, the members who went quiet, and what became of your newcomers.
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ZombyIOAppToday at 14:32
📊 Last week on Pixel Crew
November 4 to November 10
💬 Messages
3,482 (12% more)
🙋 Active members
214 (3% less)
👥 Members
41 joined · 12 left
🎙️ Time in voice
61 h 20 min
⏰ Busiest time
Saturday, 20:00
📍 Busiest channels
#general, #memes, #help
🏆 Most active
@Mia, @Leo, @Sam
ZombyIO Analytics · compared with the week before
Where to find it
Open the dashboard, pick your server and choose Analytics in the sidebar (on a phone: under Features in the bar at the bottom). That is two clicks from your server list. You can also press Ctrl K anywhere in the dashboard and type the name.
In the dashboard, pick your server and choose Analytics in the sidebar, right below the overview. Counting runs by itself on Premium: the first numbers appear within ten minutes of the first message.
At the top, pick 7, 30 or 90 days. Every number compares the period with the one before it.
zomby.io/dashboard/…/analyticsAnalyticsEnabledPeriod7 days30 days90 daysYour server in numbersMessages14,210 · 12% more than the 30 days beforeActive members312Joined184
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Step 2: Check the time zone
Under What is counted, pick your server’s Time zone. Days start at midnight there, and the heatmap shows its hours, so “busiest on Saturday at 20:00” means 20:00 on your clock.
Tip
Leave out channels where numbers would mislead, such as a counting game or a bot channel, under Channels left out. Bots never count.
zomby.io/dashboard/…/analyticsWhat is countedBots never count. Leave out channels where numbers would mislead, like a counting game or a bot channel.Time zoneEurope/BerlinChannels left out#counting
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Step 3: Read the numbers
Active members are members who wrote at least one message or spent at least a minute in voice. When your server is busiest shows the hour to post announcements and plan events. Went quiet lists members who were active in the period before and have been silent since: a good list for a personal hello.
Under New members you see how many newcomers said something, how many are still here and how many left within a day.
zomby.io/dashboard/…/analyticsWhen your server is busiestAverage messages per hour on each weekday, in your server’s time zone. Darker is busier.Busiest: Saturday around 20:00. Announcements and events land best then.Went quietMia212 Messages beforeLeo168 Messages before
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Step 4: Get a weekly report in Discord
Under Weekly report in Discord, switch on Post the weekly report, pick a channel, a day and an hour, and press Save. Once a week the bot posts last week’s numbers there, Monday to Sunday.
Tip
A staff channel is the right place: the report names the most active members and channels.
zomby.io/dashboard/…/analyticsWeekly report in DiscordOnce a week the bot posts last week’s numbers in a channel you pick. Made for a staff channel.Post the weekly reportChannel#staff
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ZombyIOAppToday at 14:32
📊 Last week on Pixel Crew
💬 Messages
3,482 (12% more)
🙋 Active members
214
⏰ Busiest time
Saturday, 20:00
ZombyIO Analytics · compared with the week before
Open analytics
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Step 5: Download the numbers
Press Download as CSV at the top to get the period’s days, channels and most active members as a file for a spreadsheet.
zomby.io/dashboard/…/analyticsDownload as CSV
Free and Premium
Premium costs €6 a month per server and is shared by every admin of that server. It raises limits, it does not unlock the feature.
Free and Premium
What
Free
Premium
Analytics with 13 months of history
Not included
Included
Something not working?
The problems people run into most often, and how to fix each one.
The page shows no numbers
Counting starts when your server has Premium, so earlier days have no numbers. New numbers arrive every ten minutes. If counting is switched off in the banner, nothing new is added.
Voice time looks too low
Time counts while a member is in a voice channel and not deafened. A stretch without any change counts for up to twelve hours. After a short restart of the bot, members already in a call count again from their next change, such as a mute or a move.
A member shows as “Member”
Names are asked from Discord when the page is opened and kept for a few hours. A name that could not be asked yet shows as “Member” and appears on a later visit. Members who left are marked as such.
What is stored about members?
Only numbers: messages and voice time per day, and on which days somebody was active. Never what anybody wrote. Member numbers are deleted after six months, and members can have theirs deleted with their account.
Ask in the ZombyIO support server. Bring your support ID, your server’s support ID and a sentence about what you expected to happen, and someone will look at it with you.
