Today – one of our potential customers asked us the following question: Is it possible to see dates and times associated with internet activity?

Stating from the fact that Cyclope Employee Surveillance shows all the websites and visit duration the answer is definitely yes.

Cyclope aggregates hourly reports into daily reports and weekly reports and so on. So if a users visits examplesite.com today at 9 AM for 2 minutes and today at 11 AM for 10 minutes – you will see in the today reports that the user has spent 12 minutes on the examplesite.com. If we want to know the hours when the examplesite.com was visited and the period on time we have to follow the next steps.

In order to do that – after you select a user that have visit a website that you want to investigate – go to Statistics / Overtime and modify the working hours (for example from 9 AM to 10 AM) and go to Statistics / Internet Activity and you can select the option Show worktime only (9:00-10:00) and you will be able to see if the website was accessed in this time interval and for how many time.

I have attached a few screenshots with the details:

I have selected my user (Dan Gurghian) and I have checked the Internet Activity report and I have noticed that a non productive website (http://www.gsp.ro/ – the top sports related website in Romania) was accessed for 0:09 hours

I have modified the working hours in order to see when the website was accessed

I have checked the Internet Activity report and the website that I have mentioned was accessed for 0:06 hours during 9 AM and 10 AM.

In this way you can investigate when (date and time) a website was accessed by one user.

We know that this method is not very convenient for everyday usage that is why we recommend using it when you want to investigate the usage of non productive websites (accessed during working hours) only. By default Cyclope statistics are aggregated for each and offer you an overview with all the users’ activity – which can be split using the Overtime report into smaller time intervals.

The new version of Cyclope will include a Custom Build report which allows you to select a user of a group of users, to define a time interval and a report type (like Internet Activity) and the report that will be generated will contain only data related to the users, period and action that you have selected.