Internet Usage
What is Internet Usage Tracking?
Internet Usage is a measure of how long users in your organisation spend on the Internet as part of normal day-to-day activities.
Existing internet reporting tools provide statistics of internet usage based on downloads or the number of times a user visits a website. These tools assess a user’s interaction with the internet by broadly looking at all browser activity, whether active or dormant, and incorrectly assume that web traffic is being generated even if the browser is not being used.
Organisations can incorrectly assume that a staff member was on social media all day when in reality the staff member looked at social media at the start of the day and minimised the web browser instead of closing the browser. Due to the design of social media websites and current reporting tools, the web browser in its minimised state keeps updating existing tools, generating large amounts of traffic and therefore incorrectly reporting that the staff member was using social media all day.
Why is Internet Usage Tracking important?
Introspectus records active browser windows and actual usage, removing the assumptions made by other tools. Introspectus records the browser activity of a users ‘active’ window.
Introspectus records the top level web address (URL) being used of each ‘in focus’ browser window and records the start time the window becomes ‘active’ and the time when the window is no longer ‘active’. This information is used to generate reports to inform you how users interact with the internet.
Introspectus will help you identify locations or users with application performance related issues.
Introspectus Key Features
What's the solution?
Introspectus is different from other reporting tools. Introspectus gathers user web activity statistics to measure how long end users actually spend on the internet. As a decision maker within an organisation, you can identify:
- Staff members utilisation of their computers.
- Approximate start and end times (dependent on computer usage).
- Confirm that staff are working when they are remote from the office.
This information is presented in a number of ways, as shown in our different report types below.
Internet Usage Reports
Our goal is to provide actionable analytics and insights for your business needs. Introspectus gives you a clearer picture of how your staff interact with the internet every day.
Corporate Usage – Internet by Category
This Introspectus report:
- Gives the organisation an overview of the time spent by your staff in different web categories, as an accumulated value over a specified time period.
Corporate Usage – Internet by URL
This Introspectus report:
- Gives an organisation an overview of the time that your staff are spending on websites as an accumulated value over a specific time period.
- Shows the top 20 Web addresses listed in order of most used to least used.
- Displays the average for a longer period of time to compare how this behavior is changing.
- Provides underlying data used to generate the summary report.
User Behaviour – Internet
This Introspectus report:
- Give the organisation an overview of the time spent by your staff on the internet.
- Displays the total time spent on the internet for non-corporate-based web addresses.
- Shows the top 20 staff member’s time on the internet, listed in order of most used to least used.
- Displays the average for a longer period of time to compare how this behaviour is changing.
- Provides the ability to view the underlying data used to generate the summary report.
User Behaviour – Individual
This Introspectus report:
- Provides a high-level overview of a staff member’s day, differentiating between ‘work related’ and ‘non-work related’ activities.
- Displays a staff member’s day divided into 15-minute slices of corporate (Green) and non-corporate (Red) activities.
- Shows the first computer activity of the day and the last computer activity of the day.
- Displays computer activity at any time of the day, from any work-related workstation and any location.
