How much time do you waste surfing the web?
Jun 28th, 2007 by Jared Schwager
In an effort to get my butt off the chair a bit more this summer, I’ve decided to limit my time surfing the web a bit more. There are a lot of great applications that can count how many minutes you are on your computer, but they do not count the time you’ve spent just surfing the web.
After doing a bit of searching around, I found an extension for Firefox called TimeTracker. It’s a simple addon which counts how long the Firefox window is in focus. So every time you go on to do something else in another application, it will stop counting. This really helps you get an idea of how much time you waste every day just surfing the web.
Give it a try and see how much time you’re consuming browsing the web. How much of your day is spent surfing?
Update (07/04/2007):
I just found out you can also add a filter list to TimeTracker in the options so it will pause the timer on certain sites, e.g., grupenet.com is on my filter list.
Thanks Jared. I use another add-on “MeeTimer” that does the same thing. It also allows you to group sites to categories. So that you can see where you are spending your time.
If it’s some enjoyed though, then it’s not really time wasted!
What I’d like is a tracker that records how much time I waste trying to write a blog post. I use wordpress and sometimes feel like I sit here for five minutes waiting for an update to save. Usually it saves instantly - but man when you have to wait, you have to wait!! Now that’s wasted time!
I can’t wait for someone to come up with “how much time do you waste seeing how much time you waste on the web?”