Distraction Cost Calculator: what do distracting sites cost you each year?
Enter your daily habits and get a receipt of what each site may be costing you. The figures are an estimate from what you type, not measured browsing.
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Total: 100 min per workday
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Distraction Receipt
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Distracting sites may cost me about $19,167/year (383 h). Cutting by 50% could win back 192 h and $9,583. This is an estimate from your inputs, not measured browsing.
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How this is calculated
Every number on the receipt comes from the fields on this page. There is no average user, no industry benchmark, and no lookup of your history.
- Add the minutes per workday across the site rows.
- Yearly hours = minutes per workday × workdays per year ÷ 60. Yearly cost = yearly hours × hourly rate.
- Weekly cost uses a 5-day work week: minutes × 5 ÷ 60 × hourly rate. Monthly cost is the yearly cost divided by 12, spread across a calendar year, not a 4-week month.
- Salary mode sets the hourly rate to salary ÷ workdays ÷ 8. The 8-hour day is an assumption. If workdays is 0, that rate is $0 and the yearly total is $0.
- Full workdays are yearly hours ÷ 8. Workweeks are those days ÷ 5. “Could cut by” multiplies only the yearly hours and yearly cost. It does not change the weekly, monthly, or yearly totals above it.
Dollars on the receipt are rounded to the nearest dollar, so the site lines can differ from the yearly total by about a dollar. Hours per year are rounded to the nearest hour on the receipt. The sample rows start at 100 minutes per workday, $50 per hour, and 230 workdays. Replace them with your own guess.
Pricing a minute at your rate does not mean that minute was lost wages. To record real time per site, use SiteKeeper time tracking. To cap a site, see website limits.
Frequently asked questions
How is the cost calculated?
The calculator adds the minutes you enter for each site. Yearly hours equal those minutes times the workdays you enter, divided by 60. Yearly cost equals those hours times your hourly rate. Weekly cost uses the same minutes for a 5-day week. Monthly cost is the yearly cost divided by 12. If you enter a salary instead of an hourly rate, the hourly rate is the salary divided by your workdays and then by 8 hours. None of these steps use browsing data or a published average.
Is this my real browsing time?
No. The site names and minutes are whatever you type. The sample rows start at 100 minutes per workday, $50 per hour, and 230 workdays so the receipt is not blank. This page does not read your browser history.
Why is the default 230 workdays?
230 is a round planning figure: 52 weeks times 5 weekdays is 260, minus about 30 days for holidays and leave. It is not an official average for a country or a job. Change it if your year is different. With 230 workdays, a 5-day week lines up as 46 weeks, so the weekly cost times 46 equals the yearly cost.
Does an hour on a site equal an hour of lost pay?
Not necessarily. The calculator prices every minute at the rate you enter. Some of that time may be a break, research, or something you meant to do. The cut-by control only shows what that percent of the yearly total would be. It does not predict what you will actually get back.
Are the numbers I type sent to SiteKeeper?
No. The math runs in your browser on this page, and the inputs are not submitted to SiteKeeper. SiteKeeper never sells or shares your data.
How do I measure real time instead of guessing?
SiteKeeper is a free Chrome extension that records time on the sites you visit and can block a site when you hit a limit you set. That measurement is separate from this calculator. Install it from the Chrome Web Store, then compare those minutes with the guess you typed here.