# Feeding analytics

Source: https://docs.gdc-world.net/cats-health/feeding-analytics/

## Periods

The feeding analytics show which foods you feed most, which ones your cats like best, and at which meal times they eat best. You find them in the menu under **Feeding log**, as **Analytics**.

*[Image: The feeding analytics with the periods and the rankings Most fed and Best rated food]*

At the top you choose the period that all rankings are based on:

- **All time**: every feeding ever logged.
- **Last 30 days**: today and the 29 days before.
- **7 days**: today and the six days before.

On the right you see how many entries fall into the chosen period (for example **148 ENTRIES**).

A short period shows what is happening now, for example whether a new food is going down well. **All time** gives the most reliable picture, because it rests on the most ratings.

## Calories per day

Below the period, **Calories per day** shows how much each cat ate, in kcal. For every portion the app takes the grams the cat got, times the share its rating says it ate (see [Ratings](https://docs.gdc-world.net/cats-health/settings/#feeding)), times the food's calories (see [Add or edit a food](https://docs.gdc-world.net/cats-health/food/#form)).

Each cat has a line with its **average per day** and how many days were fully counted, for example **12 of 14 days fully counted**, and a bar for every day of the period. With **All time** each bar is a week instead, the average of its fully counted days. Hold the pointer over a bar, or tap it, to see the date and the value. All cats share one scale, so their bars can be compared.

- **Not fully counted:** a portion without a rating counts for nothing until you rate it. The same goes for a food that has no calories, no content per container or, for older meals, no typical serving. A day with such a portion is drawn faint and is left out of the average, so a gap does not look like a cat eating less.
- **Estimates, marked ≈:** older meals that were logged for all cats at once count as the food's typical serving for every cat, and a portion stored without grams counts as its number of containers times the content per container. Calories are always the food's current label value.

Deceased cats are not shown. Archived foods do count, because the cats ate them.

## Rankings

There are three rankings. Each shows a rank number, the name, a bar and the value.

**Most fed** (*Ranked by number of servings.*): the six foods fed most often. Each entry counts once, however many cats shared it.

**Best rated food** (*At least two rated servings.*): the six foods with the best average rating.

**Best rated meal times** (*Average acceptance per meal time.*): all your meal times, best first. Extra feedings appear here as their own line, **Extra feeding**.

### How the scores work

Each rating counts as the share of the portion it means was eaten, as set in [Settings](https://docs.gdc-world.net/cats-health/settings/#feeding): for example **x** 0 %, **o** 33 %, **+** 67 % and **++** 100 %. A cat likes a food as much as it eats of it.

- Every cat's rating counts on its own. If one cat loves a food and the other refuses it, they average out.
- Cats that were not rated are left out, so a missing rating does not pull the average down. A refused meal does count, as 0 %.
- The value shows the rating closest to the average, with the average itself in brackets. For example **+ (74 %)** means "on average a little more than +".
- The bar shows the average compared to all of it eaten (100 %). For **Most fed** it shows the count compared to the top food.

A food or meal time needs at least two ratings before it is ranked, so a single good rating cannot put it at the top. If nothing has enough ratings yet, the ranking says **Not enough data yet — two rated entries per item are needed.**

Archived foods are left out of **Most fed** and **Best rated food**, so the rankings show only the foods you currently choose from (see [Archive a food](https://docs.gdc-world.net/cats-health/food/#archive)). They still count in **Best rated meal times** and in the number of entries, because those describe your meal times and the period, not a food.

So the more consistently you rate (see [Ratings](https://docs.gdc-world.net/cats-health/feeding-log/#ratings)), the more meaningful these rankings become.