Talk:Wikimediastatus.net
Add reference numbers or images for what a "spike" might be defined as
Context: I'm looking at the graphs, and IIUC the scales at the sides are all dynamic. This makes it hard for a lay-person to instantly understand whether a spike is normal or a problem.
- I.e. During times of stability the graphs will always show many small spikes for a huge variety of reasons. Whereas during outages the scale will change and small spikes will be flattened while 1+ large spikes will appear.
- E.g. Today the "User-reported connectivity errors" graph (screenshot) shows a graph of "0–1.5 reports/second". As a lay-person looking at that page for the first time, I am uncertain whether the brief spike to ~1.02/s indicated a small problem or a big problem.
I suggest adding something to the Status-page to help explain what a spike might look like or be defined as. E.g.
- Perhaps adding some numbers into the tooltips? (E.g. "A variation of 0–1/s is a normal baseline; major outages usually go over 9000/s.")
- Perhaps linking/embedding a screenshot of an old major problem? (or a gallery, as some graphs might remain stable when others are spiking. E.g. this screenshot includes the outage from March 29 but only shows spikes in 2 of the 5 graphs.)
I can currently get a slightly better understanding by looking at the "week" and "month" tabs, but if there's a completely/relatively smooth month then I wouldn't even have that!
Tab links from grey to blue
In the list of 5 graphs, I almost didn't notice the "Day | Week | Month" UI elements because the links are colored grey. I suggest changing these links to be blue, so they are more noticeable and intuitively link-colored. (More context at mw:User:Quiddity/Blue link color). Cheers, Quiddity (talk) 19:13, 31 March 2022 (UTC)