How does WFilter Web Surfing Time Report work?

peter2011 · Postby **peter2011** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:04 am

Been testing wfilter and so far so good!

Quick question, how the the Web Surfing Time Report work? does it take an average time someone spends online?

We currenlty use surf control and that take an average (which we can set).

gengw2000 · Postby **gengw2000** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:03 am

Because it is difficult to determine whether the user is actually reading the page, we calculate the Internet Browsing Time by using a special algorithm. We use the "Read Time Threshold" as the basis for measuring browse time. The Read Time Threshold is 3 minutes by default.

For example, an employee goes to www.cnn.com. If a request is made to www.google.com 2 minutes after the initial request to www.cnn.com, 2 minutes of browse time are assigned to cnn.com. A subsequent request to www.msn.com 4 minutes later will assign 3 minutes to google.com and begin a new session for msn.com.

peter2011 · Postby **peter2011** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:47 am

Also just had a though, if windows did an update or anti virus update,

adobe etc these all add time to the browsing time.

Is there a way to exclude some sites?

gengw2000 · Postby **gengw2000** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:58 am

You can add these websites to the "website exception list" in certain recording levels to except them from being calculated. Please check the attached screenshot.

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