# Time To First Reponse - Bug!?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-first-reponse-bug/115081
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-first-reponse-bug/115081 "2019-04-15T09:28:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jousefm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jousefm)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-first-reponse-bug/115081/1 "2019-04-15T09:28:33Z")
Hi guys!
I am very suspicious about the time to first response data gathered from the forum, I always have peaks in there which do not make sense at all. We usually answer posts within a 8 hour window or faster, so why does is there always a peak. Am I missing something? Example:
Best,
Jousef
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-first-reponse-bug/115081/2 "2019-04-15T11:48:10Z")
Are there multiple peaks or just that day? Isn’t the scale minutes? Isn’t it likely that someone asked a question in the middle of the night and it went unanswered until morning?
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### Author:  [@jousefm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jousefm)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-first-reponse-bug/115081/3 "2019-04-15T12:31:17Z")
No it is only 1-3 days that have a peak and I take the time to first response **per day**!
Could be but how would you get the 200 hour peak then? 🙂
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-first-reponse-bug/115081/4 "2019-04-15T14:22:05Z")
OH. The scale is hours, not minutes. I wasn’t sure about that.
My best guess is that there were some very old topics that somehow had not had responses, like some topic in a category that you’d not expect to get responses. It seems improbable that the metrics are computed incorrectly.
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### Author:  [@jousefm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jousefm)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-first-reponse-bug/115081/5 "2019-04-15T15:47:29Z")
Thanks for your answer Jay! Already investigated this and I assume it takes also posts from the past which is a bit “odd”.
From what I have found the algorithm looks like this:
`builder.where(“p.user_id != t.user_id”)`
→ Also means that the owner of the topic posting the first reply, should not be considered a reply at all
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Maybe someone else has an idea on this 🙂