Overview
Understand how mods are shaping your game.
Analytics in CurseForge for Studios gives you the insights to measure mod ecosystem impact on your game, compare the behavior of vanilla and modded players, track ecosystem health over time, and make informed decisions about content, discovery, and monetization.
Two Audiences
Analytics data in CurseForge for Studios serves two distinct audiences:
Game Studios
Game studios can monitor their modding community's health and performance. This includes tracking the total volume of mods and active creators, analyzing player interaction patterns, and identifying content that encourages adoption. Furthermore, studios can observe financial trends for premium mods and the efficiency of cloud cooking processes. These high-level analytics are strictly for studio use and are not shared with mod authors.
Mod Authors
Mod authors get insight into their own content: how their mods are being downloaded and engaged with, where players drop off in the discovery funnel, and how their premium mods are selling. Author analytics are accessible in the CurseForge for Authors portal and are scoped to each author's own mods. Studios benefit from authors having this data because creators who understand their performance produce more consistent, higher quality content.
Data Collected
The SDK collects analytics in five categories. All data is accessible in the console.
| Category | Enabled by default | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Performance and Stability | Yes | Studio |
| Mod Discovery Funnels | No | Authors |
| User Engagement | No | Studio & Authors |
| Premium and Revenue | Yes if supported by the game | Studio & Authors |
| Cloud Cooker Status | Yes if supported by the game | Studio & Authors |
Dashboards
| Dashboard | Audience | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Mod Ecosystem Health | Studio | Top-level metrics for your mod ecosystem: creators, total mods, downloads, DAU, and DAU who engaged with mods. |
| Engagement | Studio & Authors | How players interact with mods during play sessions, broken down by platform. |
| Premium Mods | Studio & Authors | Revenue trends, sales volume, and conversion data for premium mod purchases. |
| Cloud Cooker Status | Authors | Cooking job status, queue depth, and success rates across platforms. |
| Downloads | Authors | Download volume and trends for each mod a creator has published. Each author gets data on their own mods only. |
| Funnels (coming soon) | Authors | Mod browser funnel data showing where players drop off between impression and install. |