Track time on web sites

[wiz561]

Hi!

I was wondering if anybody knew of a way you can log the time spent on a web site. For example, how many hours were spent on facebook?

I know of a chrome add-on that does this, but wondered if this can be accomplished on merlin or through snort.

Thanks!

 

[RMerlin]

Hi!

I was wondering if anybody knew of a way you can log the time spent on a web site. For example, how many hours were spent on facebook?

I know of a chrome add-on that does this, but wondered if this can be accomplished on merlin or through snort.

Thanks!

That can't be done from a router. A typical webpage can take 2-3 seconds to load, after which the router has no idea how much time the user spends on that page since it's done transferring it.

 

[wiz561]

Thanks for the response. I agree that it would be difficult to track from the router.

I believe that I *may* be able to accomplish something close to this by using Squid. It sounds like you can run reports with Squint (through Squid) that will generate a report with this information. However, this is a web proxy solution and not really built into merlin. You also have to keep in mind that keeping a web site open in the background may give bad results.

Thanks!