# Displaying Average Response Time

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-average-response-time/131265>\
**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** sql-query\
**Created:** [October 17, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-average-response-time/131265 "2019-10-17T15:27:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/displaying-average-response-time/131265/2 "2019-10-21T01:42:20Z")

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I recommend you start backwards.

Make some mockups of exactly how you want your forum to look and properly define in words what the various concepts you are trying to surface mean.

That will give you a spec to work from.

For very high touch areas that require extensive caching you are going to need a plugin. [Data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) allows you to expose queries to groups so you could expose the ability to run and see it to everyone.

I also recommend you start a lot smaller than this task. Maybe just start by writing the queries you want in [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true), see if you can even find the data you want.

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