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Pareto and ABC analysis online

Sort the items by contribution, add up the shares as you go, and the structure of a business usually becomes visible in one line: a handful of products carry most of the revenue, and a long tail carries almost none. This page does that sorting, the cumulative arithmetic and the classification.

Your data never leaves this device

Your data

Paste a table straight from Excel or Google Sheets, or drop a CSV file. Nothing is uploaded anywhere — the whole calculation runs inside this browser tab.

CSV, TSV or plain text. Files saved in windows-1251 are detected and re-read automatically, so Cyrillic headers do not turn into garbage.

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Result

The drawing library is downloaded only when you press the button, and only on this page.

This page has no server side at all. The table you paste is parsed by JavaScript inside your own browser, the chart is drawn on a canvas element on your machine, and the export file is assembled locally. Nothing is uploaded, stored or written to any log. You can disconnect from the network after the page has loaded and everything will still work — which is the simplest way to verify the claim yourself.

Facts and limits of this method

Sorting Descending by value; the order is the analysis
Class A Items up to 80% cumulative contribution
Class B From 80% to 95%
Class C The remaining tail above 95%
Chart Bars coloured by class with the cumulative curve on a second axis
Negative values Taken as absolute; a negative contribution has no place in a share of a total

When it misleads you

How it is calculated

Items are sorted by their absolute value in descending order and their shares of the total are accumulated top to bottom. The cumulative column is the whole analysis: everything else, including the class boundaries, is read off it.

Class A ends where the cumulative share first reaches 80%, class B where it reaches 95%, and everything after is class C. The boundaries are applied to the cumulative curve rather than to item counts, which is why class A can contain three items in one dataset and thirty in another.

The chart draws bars in class colours with the cumulative percentage as a line on a second axis running from 0 to 100. That second axis is fixed rather than data-driven — a cumulative curve that does not end at 100% would be an arithmetic error, and pinning the axis makes such an error visible immediately.

The export contains every item with its value, its share, its cumulative share and its class letter, so the classification can be joined back to your original data rather than retyped.

Questions and answers

Why is my split not 80/20?

Because the 80/20 ratio is a rule of thumb from one specific observation about land ownership, not a property of all data. What matters is the shape of your curve: how concentrated your contributions actually are.

Where do the A, B and C boundaries come from?

From the cumulative share: A up to 80%, B to 95%, C beyond. These are the conventional thresholds in inventory management, and they are applied here to the curve rather than to a fixed number of items.

Can I use this for inventory management?

For the revenue dimension, yes. But criticality is not the same as value — a cheap part that stops the line deserves class A treatment whatever this table says. Use the classification as one input, not as the decision.

What happens to items with equal values?

They keep the order they arrived in. With many ties the class boundaries fall arbitrarily between identical items, which is a sign the classification is not carrying much information for your data.

Is my data uploaded?

No. Sorting, accumulation and classification all happen in your browser.

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