# Units for reports
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** fixed
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974 "2021-10-13T18:54:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/1 "2021-10-13T18:54:03Z")
I’m poking around in reports and I’m looking at ‘Time to first response’
I have deduced (okay, assumed) that the y-axis scale is some unit of time, but darned if I know which one. A high of 210 days to first response is a bit different than 210 femtoseconds…
There’s a similar problem on the more prosaic tabular form:
But actually it’s a bit worse here since there _is_ a label (‘Count’) that doesn’t make sense in a ‘time’ context. And that’s actually one reason I flipped over to the graph, to see if it made more sense that way.
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### Author:  [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/2 "2021-10-13T19:17:27Z")
It’s in hours. The question mark has a tool-tip:
As for the “Count” … 🧛
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/4 "2021-10-14T06:51:31Z")
Hi @ganncamp, yes it’s in hours, in the chart and also the “count” column.
Agreed it’s not perfectly clear, can’t work on this right now, but will make a note to think how I could improve this.
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### Author:  [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2021, 11:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/7 "2021-10-14T11:40:10Z")
> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> think how I could improve this.
Maybe not hide important information under a question mark? 😁
I’m reminded that the ‘?’ information is available by default on the list of reports. Why show it there and hide it on the actual report?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/8 "2021-10-14T16:47:09Z")
> [@ganncamp](#):
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> Why show it there and hide it on the actual report?
Sorry, I don’t understand. It’s actually visible on each report page. Can you show me where it’s not visible please, that’s probably a mistake if that’s the case.
> [@ganncamp](#):
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> Maybe not hide important information under a question mark? 😁
The reason we do this it that multiple times the actual description of the axis is very hard to explain in few words and we wouldn’t have space to show it here. So while I agree I would prefer to have the description directly on the axis, it was more convenient to have a solution working on every cases.
I recently updated the chart library we use, and I think I could come up with something better now.
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### Author:  [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/9 "2021-10-14T17:41:24Z")
It’s not visible on the report page until you mouseover the ‘?’:
Vs being visible by default in the list of reports:
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/11 "2026-03-02T14:07:03Z")
For the chart-view, I’ve added this label for this specific report so it’s now visible on the yaxis as well:
[PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38147)
This should make sure it’s clear what the graph is about, even when overlooking the description in the text above.
I think this suffices for this topic, so closing this one out.
To provide further feedback, head over to [Admin Reporting & Analysis: Incremental Changes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-reporting-analysis-incremental-changes/395768)
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/units-for-reports/205974/12 "2026-03-05T14:07:23Z")
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