Web tracking software

[ddrueding]

Client has a couple hundred employees and wants to know if they are going places they shouldn't on company time. They don't want to block it (yet), just know how serious a problem it is. I can see the logs from Dan's Guardian or similar, but the issue is that a single users purchase of a single item on e-bay is 30+ lines. Is there some way to give a more readable summary of a large groups surfing habits?

I'm using a smoothwall as their firewall, so anything linux based would be fairly straightforward to implement.

 

[blakerwry]

I believe squid can give you a good overview of what sites your users are visiting, plus it's built into smoothwall as a transparent proxy.

 

[ddrueding]

Thanks for the tip, blakerwry. The 3 that looked most promising were Squidalyser, Squint, and SARG.

SARG seems to be the only one thats still in development (others last revised ~2002), but Squint seems to have the best looking reports. I'll give SARG a try and see if I can customize the reports.

 

[ddrueding]

Turns out SARG has an active pre-built plugin for Smoothwall V2.0 and 3.0. Looks great. Testing now.