Metric reference
This page defines every analytics card in Colossus, view by view. Cards follow the view's date range and filters unless a card says otherwise, and count in the server's time zone. Colossus counts what messages carry, never their text.
Growth: joins, leaves and retention
Under Analytics › Growth. Cards narrow by role, not by channel.
- Members
The server's member count at the end of each period, as Discord reports it. Always the whole server.
- Net growth
Joins minus leaves. Members who come back are shown apart from new ones.
- Boosts
Server boosts active at the end of each period.
- Join sources
Joins by way in: an invite, the vanity URL, Server Discovery, a bot or an integration.
- Joins by hour
Joins by weekday and hour.
- Newcomer replies
Of joiners who sent a first message, the share answered within a day.
- Activation
The share of joiners who posted or joined voice within 7 or 30 days.
- Role uptake
The share of joiners who picked up any role within 7 or 30 days.
- Retention
The share of each period's joiners still in the server after 7 or 30 days. This card, Activation and Role uptake stop 7 or 30 days before today, while the newest joiners' window runs.
- Leavers by segment
Leavers by the segment they were in when they left.
- Tenure at leaving
How long leavers had been members.
Engagement: messages, replies and voice
Under Analytics › Engagement. Cards narrow by role and by channel.
- Messages
Messages per period, split by text, attachments, links, GIFs and stickers.
- Reply share
The share of messages that reply to another.
- Reply time
How long replies took, from under a minute to over two hours.
- Reactions per message
Reactions given per message.
- Voice time
Minutes in voice, split into speaking, muted and away.
- Streaming and camera
Minutes sharing a screen or on camera.
- Moderation
Deleted messages, timeouts and bans, without who or why.
- Activity by hour
Messages or voice by weekday and hour.
Audience: presence, segments and activity
Under Analytics › Audience. Presence and app cards need the bot's Presence intent and read the whole server; Members by last activity and Account age narrow by role only.
- Presence
Members online, idle, on do not disturb or offline.
- Online by hour
The average members online at each hour.
- Apps
Time members spent showing an app, such as a game, on their profile.
- Segments
Members by activity: New (joined in the last 7 days), At risk (active before, not in the last 14 days), Most invested (the most messages and voice), Lurker (hardly any) and Active (everyone else).
- Participation
Active members who only wrote, only spoke, or did both.
- Members by last activity
Current members by how long ago they last wrote or spoke.
- Account age
Current members by the year their Discord account was made.
Leaderboards: top members, invites and channels
Under Analytics › Leaderboards. Press a column to rank by it, a member or channel to open it in Lens, and Download CSV for the whole board.
- Activity
The top 200 members by messages, voice time, reactions given or reactions received.
- Levels
Members by level and XP, as
/leaderboardranks them, over All time unless you change the range. Shown while levelling is on.- Inviters and Invite links
Joins brought in by each member's invites and by each invite link, and how many stayed.
- Channels
Every channel with activity in the range, by messages, threads and voice, busiest first.
- Emoji and Commands
The emoji members use most, and how often Colossus's own commands were run.
- Apps
Apps on members' profiles, by time spent.
- Events
Scheduled events, by members interested and members who attended: those in the event's voice channel from just before it started until it ended.
Lens: one member or channel in detail
Under Analytics › Lens, one member or one channel in detail. The member Lens needs Member profiles and leaderboards access.
- Members
One member's messages and message types, voice, hours, conversations, apps, commands and emoji, and with levelling on their XP and level under Levelling. Pick a second member to compare.
- Channels
One channel's messages, the ten members who post there most, and for a voice channel its voice states. Pick a second channel to compare.