diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 03fead69..252b6ede 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@
 			<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
 			<version>2.6</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-math</artifactId>
+			<version>2.2</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
 			<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
@@ -489,9 +494,9 @@
 							</execution>
 						</executions>
 						<configuration>
-							 <targetGroups>all</targetGroups>
-							 <wroManagerFactory>ro.isdc.wro.maven.plugin.manager.factory.ConfigurableWroManagerFactory</wroManagerFactory>
-							 <destinationFolder>${basedir}/target/generated-sources/wro4j/</destinationFolder>
+							<targetGroups>all</targetGroups>
+							<wroManagerFactory>ro.isdc.wro.maven.plugin.manager.factory.ConfigurableWroManagerFactory</wroManagerFactory>
+							<destinationFolder>${basedir}/target/generated-sources/wro4j/</destinationFolder>
 						</configuration>
 					</plugin>
 					<plugin>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java
index 93bad97e..b582cca9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedUtils.java
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
 package com.commafeed.backend.feeds;
 
+import java.util.List;
+
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.math.stat.descriptive.SummaryStatistics;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Document.OutputSettings;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Entities.EscapeMode;
 import org.jsoup.safety.Whitelist;
 import org.mozilla.universalchardet.UniversalDetector;
 
+import com.commafeed.backend.model.FeedEntry;
+
 public class FeedUtils {
 
 	public static String guessEncoding(byte[] bytes) {
@@ -95,4 +100,14 @@ public class FeedUtils {
 		}
 		return sb.toString();
 	}
+
+	public static long average(List<FeedEntry> entries) {
+		SummaryStatistics stats = new SummaryStatistics();
+		for (int i = 0; i < entries.size() - 1; i++) {
+			long diff = Math.abs(entries.get(i).getUpdated().getTime()
+					- entries.get(i + 1).getUpdated().getTime());
+			stats.addValue(diff);
+		}
+		return (long) stats.getMean();
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FetchedFeed.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FetchedFeed.java
index 9ea08532..b1be3e25 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FetchedFeed.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FetchedFeed.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package com.commafeed.backend.feeds;
 
-import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import com.commafeed.backend.model.Feed;
 import com.commafeed.backend.model.FeedEntry;
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import com.google.api.client.util.Lists;
 public class FetchedFeed {
 
 	private Feed feed = new Feed();
-	private Collection<FeedEntry> entries = Lists.newArrayList();
+	private List<FeedEntry> entries = Lists.newArrayList();
 
 	private String title;
 	private long fetchDuration;
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ public class FetchedFeed {
 		this.feed = feed;
 	}
 
-	public Collection<FeedEntry> getEntries() {
+	public List<FeedEntry> getEntries() {
 		return entries;
 	}
 
-	public void setEntries(Collection<FeedEntry> entries) {
+	public void setEntries(List<FeedEntry> entries) {
 		this.entries = entries;
 	}