Friday 1 July 2016

Website Usage

We have fairly strict policy on what websites that we visit here in this office.  They are all logged in a central server, and our managers can look at them at their will.  It’s fair enough, when you are think about it. We are paid to work here, not surf around doing silly things.  Now this got me thinking… If all our websites are logged in a central server, what are the websites that the central government offices surf around on the most?  

The civil service officer get paid on our money.  Shouldn't we find out what their surfing habits are?  So, I set myself the task of asking ALL the central government departments asking them the same question:

Please can you tell me what were the top 10 most visited websites that members of staff visited from 01/01/15 to 01/01/16.


Name of Department
Answer
Refused.
Refused
Unable to Answer - See response for detials
Refused
Refused
Refused

Refused
Refused
Refused
Refused
Refused
Refsued due to records being kept for 6 months

Refused
www.google.co.uk
syndication.twiter.com
pbs.twimg.com
www.facebook.com
fbcdn-profile-a.akamilhd.net
www.google-analytics.com
ping.chartbeat.net
civilservicelearning.civilservice.gov.uk
fbstatic-a.akamilhd.net
twitter.com   
ping.chartbeat.net, www.google-analytics.com, ecx.images-amazon.com, www.google.co.uk, www.independent.co.uk, www.dle.mod.uk, pictures2.autotrader.co.uk, www.telegraph.co.uk
Refused
Refused

The thing that strikes me is that most of them couldn't actually answer.  This makes me wonder how they can monitor their systems and what is going on.  Maybe it is just that they haven't got a system which makes it easy for them to collect this data. Which makes me wonder why the others have...

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