What the number actually measures
Every ten seconds the tracker asks one question: was there any keyboard or mouse input in that window? The activity level is the share of windows that answer yes.
That is deliberately not a count of keystrokes. Typing furiously for ten seconds and pressing one key in the same ten seconds score the same, so there is nothing to be gained by hammering the keyboard — and nothing to lose by spending an hour reading a specification.
It is a measure of presence, not of quality or effort. A designer thinking about a layout and a support agent closing forty tickets can both be at 100%, and neither number says who had the better day.
Auto-clickers get reported
Mouse jigglers and auto-clickers exist precisely to fake an activity level. The tracker checks the names of running programs against a list we keep up to date on the server, and emails the manager when one of them turns up.
- The check runs on a half-hourly cycle while tracking is on.
- At most one such email a day per person, so a single afternoon does not flood an inbox.
- Every alert carries an unsubscribe link, for teams that would rather not be told.
It compares program names against a list. It is not a behavioural model and does not claim to be — which is why the email says a known tool was detected, and leaves the conversation to you.
Nothing is keylogged
The tracker records that input happened. It does not record what was typed, and there is no keystroke log anywhere in the product to read back.
Which plan
Activity levels are measured on the Professional plan. The value is captured at the moment a screenshot is taken and stored with it, so switching the plan on starts the record from that day forward — it cannot fill in a month that was never measured.
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