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RangeLast 7 daysLast 30 days
35h 51m
on metered habits across the house over the last 7 days: 13h 27m gaming, 16h 36m video. 15h 12m was earned back through quizzes and chores.

Nova 7 · young

Over a budget on 2 of 7 days
Online, last 7 days 7h 24m 1h 3m a day on average
Metered habits 6h 16m gaming 2h 11m · video 4h 5m
Earned by learning 3h 48m 108 min quizzes · 2 chores approved
Schoolwork lookups 45 23 blocked requests

Where the time went

Minutes per day. Gaming, video and social are counted by the meter; everything else online is the rest of the daily ledger.

2h1h 30m1h30 min0Fri 28 Aug: 52 minSat 29 Aug: 1h 40mSun 30 Aug: 1h 41mMon 31 Aug: 39 minTue 1 Sep: 47 minWed 2 Sep: 48 minThu 3 Sep: 57 min52Fri1h40Sat1h41Sun40Mon47Tue48Wed57Thu

Music, schoolwork and messaging are never metered, so they only ever show up in ‘other online’.

Show the numbers
DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Fri 28 Aug1226001452
Sat 29 Aug25530022100
Sun 30 Aug33490019101
Mon 31 Aug142600039
Tue 1 Sep192700147
Wed 2 Sep93600348
Thu 3 Sep1928001057

Losing time, gaining time

Above the line: minutes earned through quizzes and approved chores. Below: minutes the meter counted against the habit budgets. Parent bonuses are excluded, because a gift is not something they earned. The two sides are not meant to match: earning is capped by design.

1h1h2h2h0Fri 28 Aug: 0 min earned, 38 min meteredSat 29 Aug: 27 min earned, 1h 18m meteredSun 30 Aug: 22 min earned, 1h 22m meteredMon 31 Aug: 1h earned, 40 min meteredTue 1 Sep: 1h 37m earned, 46 min meteredWed 2 Sep: 0 min earned, 45 min meteredThu 3 Sep: 22 min earned, 47 min metered38Fri271h18Sat221h22Sun1h40Mon1h3746Tue45Wed2247Thu

metered time down 1h, earning up 1h 10m (the last 3 days against the 3 before).

Show the numbers
DayQuizzesChoresEarnedMeteredBalance
Fri 28 Aug00038-38
Sat 29 Aug2702778-51
Sun 30 Aug2202282-60
Mon 31 Aug0606040+20
Tue 1 Sep37609746+51
Wed 2 Sep00045-45
Thu 3 Sep2202247-25

Which services

DNS lookups per service over the last 7 days. A lookup means the device asked for that service by name. It is a proxy for activity, not data volume and not minutes: HTTPS hides everything else.

YouTube: 98 lookups · 3.1 GB · 2h 9m📺 YouTube98 lookupsRoblox: 47 lookups · 450 MB · 59 min🧱 Roblox47 lookupsSpotify: 31 lookups · 367 MB · 5h 21m🎧 Spotify31 lookupsSnapchat: 24 lookups👻 Snapchat24 lookupsKhan Academy: 18 lookups · 126 MB · 1h 28m📚 Khan Academy18 lookupsNetflix: 17 lookups · 2.1 GB · 55 min🎬 Netflix17 lookupsMinecraft: 15 lookups · 94 MB · 33 min⛏️ Minecraft15 lookupsInstagram: 15 lookups📸 Instagram15 lookupsGoogle Classroom: 12 lookups🎓 Google Classroom12 lookupsTikTok: 8 lookups · 841 MB · 28 min🎵 TikTok8 lookups

Bars are coloured when the service falls in a metered category (gaming, video, social). Grey means we never count it against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

Show the numbers
ServiceCategoryLookupsBytesMetered minutes
YouTubevideo983.1 GB129
Robloxgaming47450 MB59
Spotifyaudio31367 MB321
Snapchatsocial2400
Khan Academyschoolwork18126 MB88
Netflixvideo172.1 GB55
Minecraftgaming1594 MB33
Instagramsocial1500
Google Classroomschoolwork1200
TikTokvideo8841 MB28

Bytes and metered minutes come from the firewall counters on the addresses those services resolved to, so they are measured, not estimated. Lookups and bytes answer different questions: do not add them together.

What Nova looked up most
DomainLookups
youtube.com36
googlevideo.com34
roblox.com32
ytimg.com28
snapchat.com24
spotify.com19
khanacademy.org18
googleapis.com16
minecraft.net15
rbxcdn.com15
classroom.google.com12
scdn.co12

Rangi 11 · young

Over a budget on 4 of 7 days
Online, last 7 days 13h 5m 1h 52m a day on average
Metered habits 13h 57m gaming 6h 9m · video 6h 50m
Earned by learning 5h 35m 95 min quizzes · 4 chores approved
Schoolwork lookups 70 191 blocked requests

Where the time went

Minutes per day. Gaming, video and social are counted by the meter; everything else online is the rest of the daily ledger.

3h2h1h0Fri 28 Aug: 1h 30mSat 29 Aug: 2h 38mSun 30 Aug: 2h 45mMon 31 Aug: 1h 32mTue 1 Sep: 1h 10mWed 2 Sep: 1h 35mThu 3 Sep: 1h 55m1h33Fri2h45Sat2h48Sun1h53Mon1h40Tue1h46Wed1h55Thu

Music, schoolwork and messaging are never metered, so they only ever show up in ‘other online’.

Show the numbers
DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Fri 28 Aug424290090
Sat 29 Aug6593700158
Sun 30 Aug68881200165
Mon 31 Aug495860092
Tue 1 Sep523990070
Wed 2 Sep524950095
Thu 3 Sep414110023115

Losing time, gaining time

Above the line: minutes earned through quizzes and approved chores. Below: minutes the meter counted against the habit budgets. Parent bonuses are excluded, because a gift is not something they earned. The two sides are not meant to match: earning is capped by design.

1h 30m1h 30m3h3h0Fri 28 Aug: 1h 10m earned, 1h 33m meteredSat 29 Aug: 0 min earned, 2h 45m meteredSun 30 Aug: 1h 30m earned, 2h 48m meteredMon 31 Aug: 1h 10m earned, 1h 53m meteredTue 1 Sep: 1h 25m earned, 1h 40m meteredWed 2 Sep: 10 min earned, 1h 46m meteredThu 3 Sep: 10 min earned, 1h 32m metered1h101h33Fri2h45Sat1h302h48Sun1h101h53Mon1h251h40Tue101h46Wed101h32Thu

metered time down 2h 8m, earning down 55 min (the last 3 days against the 3 before).

Show the numbers
DayQuizzesChoresEarnedMeteredBalance
Fri 28 Aug10607093-23
Sat 29 Aug000165-165
Sun 30 Aug306090168-78
Mon 31 Aug106070113-43
Tue 1 Sep256085100-15
Wed 2 Sep10010106-96
Thu 3 Sep1001092-82

Which services

DNS lookups per service over the last 7 days. A lookup means the device asked for that service by name. It is a proxy for activity, not data volume and not minutes: HTTPS hides everything else.

YouTube: 205 lookups · 5.2 GB · 3h 32m📺 YouTube205 lookupsRoblox: 103 lookups · 1.2 GB · 2h 45m🧱 Roblox103 lookupsSpotify: 61 lookups · 327 MB · 4h 46m🎧 Spotify61 lookupsSnapchat: 51 lookups · 153 MB · 27 min👻 Snapchat51 lookupsInstagram: 50 lookups · 189 MB · 22 min📸 Instagram50 lookupsNetflix: 35 lookups · 3.5 GB · 1h 30m🎬 Netflix35 lookupsDiscord: 22 lookups💬 Discord22 lookupsMinecraft: 21 lookups · 264 MB · 1h 32m⛏️ Minecraft21 lookupsKhan Academy: 18 lookups · 114 MB · 1h 20m📚 Khan Academy18 lookupsBBC iPlayer: 18 lookups📺 BBC iPlayer18 lookups

Bars are coloured when the service falls in a metered category (gaming, video, social). Grey means we never count it against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

Show the numbers
ServiceCategoryLookupsBytesMetered minutes
YouTubevideo2055.2 GB212
Robloxgaming1031.2 GB165
Spotifyaudio61327 MB286
Snapchatsocial51153 MB27
Instagramsocial50189 MB22
Netflixvideo353.5 GB90
Discordsocial2200
Minecraftgaming21264 MB92
Khan Academyschoolwork18114 MB80
BBC iPlayervideo1800

Bytes and metered minutes come from the firewall counters on the addresses those services resolved to, so they are measured, not estimated. Lookups and bytes answer different questions: do not add them together.

What Rangi looked up most
DomainLookups
youtube.com88
googlevideo.com61
gstatic.com47
roblox.com47
snapchat.com43
rbxcdn.com34
googleapis.com31
spotify.com27
docs.google.com25
scdn.co25
instagram.com24
ytimg.com24

Piper 14 · standard

Over a budget on 2 of 7 days
Online, last 7 days 19h 43m 2h 49m a day on average
Metered habits 15h 38m gaming 5h 7m · video 5h 41m
Earned by learning 5h 49m 199 min quizzes · 2 chores approved
Schoolwork lookups 73 53 blocked requests

Where the time went

Minutes per day. Gaming, video and social are counted by the meter; everything else online is the rest of the daily ledger.

4h3h2h1h0Fri 28 Aug: 2h 19mSat 29 Aug: 3h 26mSun 30 Aug: 3h 29mMon 31 Aug: 2h 42mTue 1 Sep: 2h 23mWed 2 Sep: 2h 42mThu 3 Sep: 2h 42m2h19Fri3h28Sat3h29Sun2h42Mon2h23Tue2h42Wed2h42Thu

Music, schoolwork and messaging are never metered, so they only ever show up in ‘other online’.

Show the numbers
DayGamingVideoSocialDownloadsOtherTotal online
Fri 28 Aug423231034139
Sat 29 Aug65806300206
Sun 30 Aug667063010209
Mon 31 Aug393834051162
Tue 1 Sep324533033143
Wed 2 Sep383227065162
Thu 3 Sep254439054162

Losing time, gaining time

Above the line: minutes earned through quizzes and approved chores. Below: minutes the meter counted against the habit budgets. Parent bonuses are excluded, because a gift is not something they earned. The two sides are not meant to match: earning is capped by design.

2h2h4h4h0Fri 28 Aug: 27 min earned, 1h 45m meteredSat 29 Aug: 1h 52m earned, 3h 28m meteredSun 30 Aug: 27 min earned, 3h 19m meteredMon 31 Aug: 42 min earned, 1h 51m meteredTue 1 Sep: 27 min earned, 1h 50m meteredWed 2 Sep: 1h 42m earned, 1h 37m meteredThu 3 Sep: 12 min earned, 1h 48m metered271h45Fri1h523h28Sat273h19Sun421h51Mon271h50Tue1h421h37Wed121h48Thu

metered time down 3h 17m, earning down 25 min (the last 3 days against the 3 before).

Show the numbers
DayQuizzesChoresEarnedMeteredBalance
Fri 28 Aug27027105-78
Sat 29 Aug3775112208-96
Sun 30 Aug27027199-172
Mon 31 Aug42042111-69
Tue 1 Sep27027110-83
Wed 2 Sep277510297+5
Thu 3 Sep12012108-96

Which services

DNS lookups per service over the last 7 days. A lookup means the device asked for that service by name. It is a proxy for activity, not data volume and not minutes: HTTPS hides everything else.

YouTube: 171 lookups · 4.3 GB · 2h 58m📺 YouTube171 lookupsRoblox: 99 lookups · 1.0 GB · 2h 18m🧱 Roblox99 lookupsSpotify: 63 lookups · 360 MB · 5h 15m🎧 Spotify63 lookupsInstagram: 58 lookups · 946 MB · 1h 51m📸 Instagram58 lookupsNetflix: 43 lookups · 2.9 GB · 1h 15m🎬 Netflix43 lookupsSnapchat: 29 lookups · 763 MB · 2h 13m👻 Snapchat29 lookupsKhan Academy: 21 lookups · 495 MB · 5h 46m📚 Khan Academy21 lookupsFortnite: 19 lookups · 738 MB · 57 min🔫 Fortnite19 lookupsMinecraft: 16 lookups · 220 MB · 1h 18m⛏️ Minecraft16 lookupsGoogle Classroom: 16 lookups🎓 Google Classroom16 lookups

Bars are coloured when the service falls in a metered category (gaming, video, social). Grey means we never count it against a budget: music, schoolwork, messaging.

Show the numbers
ServiceCategoryLookupsBytesMetered minutes
YouTubevideo1714.3 GB178
Robloxgaming991.0 GB138
Spotifyaudio63360 MB315
Instagramsocial58946 MB111
Netflixvideo432.9 GB75
Snapchatsocial29763 MB133
Khan Academyschoolwork21495 MB346
Fortnitegaming19738 MB57
Minecraftgaming16220 MB78
Google Classroomschoolwork1600

Bytes and metered minutes come from the firewall counters on the addresses those services resolved to, so they are measured, not estimated. Lookups and bytes answer different questions: do not add them together.

What Piper looked up most
DomainLookups
youtube.com67
googlevideo.com63
roblox.com53
rbxcdn.com46
ytimg.com41
scdn.co35
instagram.com32
snapchat.com29
spotify.com28
gstatic.com27
cdninstagram.com23
googleapis.com22

How these numbers are measured

Lookups are not bytes and not minutes.
The gateway is the DNS server, so it sees which names a device asked for. HTTPS hides everything after that. A lookup count is a proxy for activity, nothing more.
Minutes come from the meter, not from DNS.
A minute is counted when a device moves more than a small amount of traffic to a category's addresses in that minute, so a backgrounded app does not quietly rack up time. It is about right, not perfect.
Bytes, where shown, are measured.
Byte figures come from nftables counters on the addresses a service resolved to. They are never derived from lookups.
Shorts and full YouTube cannot be told apart.
They share domains, so both count as video. YouTube Music counts as video too.
A VPN makes all of this blind.
It hides destination addresses, so categorisation and metering both fail. That is a conversation, not a chart.
8% of DNS lookups are not attributed to anyone.
Those came from a device that is not yet assigned to a person. Name it on the Devices tab and it starts counting.

Days follow the gateway's clock. Genkan logs domains, never content: it is a family conversation aid, not a surveillance console.