718373 - Meaningless averages in the overview

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Statistics, defect, P5)

Description

[Wladimir Palant]

On https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/autoinstaller/statistics/ I currently see the following numbers for the applications overview:

Firefox 9.0 	1	(74%)
Firefox 8.0 	0	(9%)
Fennec 9.0 	0	(9%)
Firefox 10.0 	0	(5%)
Thunderbird 9.0 	0	(2%)

Also, apparently the daily user count is "2 average in last 30 days" (the strange absolute numbers in the table seem to be explained by the impossibility of expressing "5%" when only having two users).

Of course the average isn't really 2 users - it's actually 19 users because only statistics for three days are available so far (it's a brand-new extension). That would mean on average one daily user with Firefox 10 - this makes a little more sense. AMO's statistics dashboard should really calculate averages based only on days that it has data for.

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/