Theme

You have the option to switch the theme between dark and light modes. The dark theme offers a low-light user interface that's easier on the eyes in dim environments, while the light theme provides a brighter interface that may be preferred in well-lit spaces.

Time

The Time settings within the Netography platform provide users with options to customize how time is displayed. There are two main features:

1. 24/12 Hour Toggle: You can switch between a 24-hour and a 12-hour clock format. The 24-hour format displays the time in a military-style configuration, while the 12-hour format is a more conventional way to represent time with AM and PM.

2. Time Zone Selection: You can select your desired time zone from the dropdown menu, ensuring that the time displayed within the platform aligns with their specific geographical location. Additionally, there is an 'OS TIME ZONE' button that allows you to synchronize the platform's time setting with your operating system's clock.

Websocket Throttle

The Netography tries to offer the best and most performant web interfaces by utilizing modern technologies such as Client Side Routing and Websockets.  Websockets in particular allow our server to stream data to your web browser without you having to click on a link or button.   Notifications and realtime flow records are examples of data arriving to your browser, from our backend servers, via the use of these websockets.

While extremely useful, and providing much better performance than traditional AJAX or page (re)loads to load new data, there are some limiting factors to using websockets that may impair your user experience with the portal.

Websockets mainly rely the following technology stacks in order to deliver data to your browser:

1. Network: how fast data is delivered to your computer relies on how fast your network can establish (and how well it can maintain) connections, along with how fast the data can arrive from our servers to your computer. 
2. Client/Computer: While websockets can send data extremely fast to your computer, if your computer cannot handle that amount of data (and the CPU required to process the updates from that data), you can essentially DDOS your own CPU, causing performance issues and sometimes even crash your browser!  Clients using Firefox on a 5 year old laptop can (and will) have a much worse experience than Clients using a modern gaming PC with Chrome.

Netography has a feature in your user's profile that can help remediate these issues!  While you likely cannot affect the speed and capacity of your network (much outside of the router to your computer), you can take charge of how much data we send over that network.   If you find that some pages or charts are rendering slowely, or you have a spike in traffic and your CPU can't keep up, you can adjust the amount of data we send out via the websockets using the Websocket Trottle setting in your user's profile.

Lowering the throttle will send less data, giving your computer more time "between data" to process the incoming information.   

For example, we have found that the Chrome Browser in MacOS operates well at the default setting of 50%, however, Firefox in Windows 10 operates better with a websocket throttle setting of 10%

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This setting is determined by not only the amount of memory or CPU your machine has, but also other programs that are running and available resources.  It pretty much is a custom setting to "tune" the Netography portal to fit your computer specifically.