Hi Christoph, That's a very good point, some people are faster than the others by nature, and some use more paper than the others :) But it still leaves me with the fact of how do I determine from the logs how long per day a person spent browsing the net?! I am using external authenticator to pull user names and passwd from AD which get inevitably logged in access.log. My analyser goes through and builds a database indexed by user and date, containing what each user visited during that day. But how much time they spent doing it. Have they spent 2 or 3 hours browsing some norties or 10 mins something business related? If you know how to add up the total browsing time from the access.log let me know please Thanks Tomas -- tp -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Haas [mailto:email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 24 February 2006 13:50 To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: reading logs On Friday 24 February 2006 12:53, Tomas Palfi wrote: > From the access.log file, which field or from what parameter can I > determine how long the users stayed on line or browsed the pages. HTTP is stateless. Squid can record how long it took to deliver the page. But then the page stays on the user's screen. How should Squid be able to know what the user does then like how slow or fast he can read or how much time he spent on the toilet? He may even have logged off, gone outside and be run over by a truck. You won't know. > PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY <cough> Kindly Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All _______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned by Messagelabs _______________________________________________________________________ PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail is private and confidential. If you have, or suspect you have received this message in error please notify the sender as soon as possible and remove from your system. You may not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Thank you for your co-operation. Please note that whilst best efforts are made, neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan the email and attachments (if any). This e-mail has been automatically scanned for viruses by MessageLabs.