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Increase Productivity with Website Blocking

Website Blocking is an outstanding and an easy-to-use feature of ActivTrak that helps you quickly block suspicious, harmful, useless, and time-wasting websites on an individual computer or in a workgroup.

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Website Blocking is an outstanding and an easy-to-use feature of ActivTrak that helps you quickly block suspicious, harmful, useless, and time-wasting websites on an individual computer or in a workgroup. Once you have these time-wasting and useless websites blocked, you will see a tremendous improvement in productivity. Here are some of the best points about ActivTrak’s Blocking Application:

Simply Select and Block Website

ActivTrak helps you quickly select the websites you want to block through its pre-defined lists of websites under different categories like adult, shopping, banking, news, email, etc.

Create your own list

Start concentrating on the things that matter in your business and know that your employees are staying safe while on company computers and networks. If you have a list of domains that you want to block, then add that into ActivTrak’s blocking list and you are done. You can add as many websites as you want in the ActivTrak’s blocking list. block websites website blocking

See which websites are blocked for which user and on which computer

Once you have added the sites you want blocked on selected computer(s), you can now check the report to glance through the performance of ActivTrak’s Blocking feature. Report shows you the list of websites that are blocked, users for which websites are blocked, and computer on which websites are blocked. You may want to filter the reports as well using the different options like Time, Users, Computers, etc. how to block a website with ActivTrak's website blocker

Control the Internet Usage as You Want

  • Are you a concerned parent who is worried about what website their kids visit over the internet?
  • Are you an employer who wants to restrict the access to social media or other irrelevant sites at your business place?
  • Are you a management personnel at some educational institute’s computer lab and you want to stop students’ access to age restricted content on the internet?
To take advantage of this cutting-edge technology, all you need to do is to create a free account with ActivTrak and log in.

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ActivTrak helps organizations make data-driven decisions to improve hybrid work. Our workforce analytics platform provides visibility that improves team productivity and performance, ensures compliance with policies and expectations, and informs allocation of wo... Read more

ActivTrak helps organizations make data-driven decisions to improve hybrid work. Our workforce analytics platform provides visibility that improves team productivity and performance, ensures compliance with policies and expectations, and informs allocation of workforce investments.

 

More than 9,500 customers trust ActivTrak’s unique privacy-first approach and award-winning technology which has been recognized by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000 and G2 ‘Best Of’ category awards. ActivTrak is backed by Elsewhere Partners and Sapphire Ventures.

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