On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Martin Thomson <m...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Valentin Gosu <valentin.g...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>> Thumbnails, or columns on the right for each selected browser with
>>> median (or mean), with the best (for that site) in green, the worst in
>>> red would allow eyeballing the results and finding interesting
>>> differences without clicking on 100 links.......  (please!)  Or to avoid
>>> overloading the page, one page with graphs like today, another with the
>>> columns I indicated (where clicking on the row takes you to the graph
>>> page for that side).
>>>
>>
>> What I noticed is that pages with lots of elements, and elements that come
>> from different sources seem to have a higher variability. So pages such as
>> flickr, with lots of images with various sizes, or pages that load various
>> ads.
>
> You currently graph every test result, sorted.  This can be reduced to
> a single measurement.  Here I think that you can take the 5th, 50th
> and 95th percentiles (mean isn't particularly interesting, and you
> want to avoid extreme outliers).  The x axis can then be used for
> something else.  The obvious choice is that you turn this into a bar
> graph with browsers on that x-axis.  You could probably remove the
> browser selector then.

Oh, to be a little less obtuse, I think that means that you get a
column graph with error bars on each column.  Your x-axis is by
browser (and version) with two columns for each (first view and
refresh).
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