GAT Shield Personal

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Visualising your Chrome experienceGAT Shield Personal is a powerful utility tool to analyse and audit your Chrome environment. It will allow you to track your usage time, analyse and risk asses your extensions, discover your environment variables, including space used, ip address, hardware, versions etc. In addition it can be configured to track time spent not just on sites but on specific pages and tasks. Part of the GAT family of tools, this is a powerful free utility which everyone who
uses Chrome for work or business should have.

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VERSION 2.8.5 UPDATE

*New branding.

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VERSION 2.8.3 UPDATE

*Extensions audit tab now shows the 'update url' property for extensions/apps not installed through the Chrome Web Store
*Extensions audit tab now allows you to remove extensions directly.

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VERSION 2.7.1 UPDATE

*Faster loading and significantly improved performance of the UI.
*Check out our updated 'About Us' page in the UI! (click the GAT for Chrome icon next to the address bar)

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VERSION 2.6.0 UPDATE

*For performance reasons, GAT for Chrome will now store only the most recent 90 days of browsing activity data.

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VERSION 2.4.10 UPDATE

*Added analytics.

NOTE: you may have to re-enable GAT for Chrome after installing the update.
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VERSION 2.4.8 UPDATE

*Bug fixes, fix issues with IP address display.

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VERSION 1.9.7 UPDATE

*Bug fixes(incorrect 'total active time' displayed).

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VERSION 1.9.6 UPDATE

* Performance enhancements.
* Improved support for IP address detection- if you have multiple IP addresses on your device, or have an IPv6 address, this should now be properly reported in the Environment tab.
* New 'Origin' field in the Extensions view- this will show if an extension came from the Chrome Web Store, or was installed by some other means(e.g. sideloaded, installed by your domain policy).
* Changes to site name reporting - if you visit a Chrome extensions page, this will appear in your browsing statistics as simply the id(e.g 'bmolaacbagnmpdfhgaomcfhgofgnfgif'). Time spent on the Chrome New Tab page will be reported as 'newtab', and so on. This makes it easier to quickly understand your browsing activity. NOTE: if you have Special Cases set up in the Configuration tab, you should check that these will work with the new names assigned.

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VERSION 1.6.7 UPDATE

* Bug fixes.
* A new icon.
* Support for the upcoming GAT Single Sign-On solution.

NOTE: you may have to re-enable GAT for Chrome after installing the update.
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VERSION 1.5.0 UPDATE

Our latest release of GAT for Chrome features 3 core improvements.

* Automatic syncing of your browsing activity information everywhere you use Chrome - if you are signed into Chrome on different computers, GAT for Chrome will now automatically sync its data between them. You can now get a full overview of your Chrome activity throughout the day, no matter how many devices you switch between!

* Improved performance and resource usage - we have worked hard to reduce the memory footprint of GAT for Chrome and make it more responsive. Performance should now be much improved for users with large amounts of browsing activity.

* More accurate tracking of your browsing activity - release 1.5.0 features improved algorithms for tracking of activity, giving a more accurate view on your 'active' time spent on Chrome.

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Detailed Description

GAT for Chrome has 5 main sections.

In the first tab it provides ‘Browsing Activity Visualization’, where it tracks the time you spend on each site and gives you a detailed breakdown of when you started and when you finished browsing on that site, detailing graphically the visits to the site across the time of the day. In addition it also gives to a graph showing you the percentage of time each site takes up in your browsing day. Finally it gives you the combined picture showing you the full working timeline for the day. A calendar lets you look back across your previous usage history. You can also search for a particular site on any given day.
When you press the large Refresh button the display will update with any new browsing activity since you opened the tab. The button will animate to remind you of this when there is new browsing activity to be shown.
This feature set is ideal for measuring self productivity or for client billing, as well as just seeing where your day went.

The second tab discovers all your installed extensions and rates them based on the amount of access they require to your Chrome environment. We also developed a scoring system to identify the total level of access required. All the columns are sortable and mousing over the ‘Access Requested’ field shows you exactly the access each extension needs - a detailed help page also helps explain this to you.

The third tab allows you to see all your downloads, the names of the files, size, where they came from, where they are stored and if the download completed or not.

The fourth tab shows you all your Chrome environment settings from IP address to the CPU you are running on, from memory total to memory available, from device location as it appears to others to space used, and much more.

The fifth tab lets you configure particular pages to track for usage. This is ideal for separating out your time spent on different parts of the one site, it can be used for example to let you see how much time you spend on Google spreadsheets, or Google slides or Google docs. For specific site tasks billable to clients it will allow you to track time spent.