Analytics
Time Spans And Resolutions
Timezone
All date times reflect the browsers specific timezone and can not be adapted.
Time span
The time span is the selected range of time in which data should be considered. The start date time of a time span is always included while its end date time is excluded.
Example: 2022-08-30T00:00:00 (incl.) - 2022-08-31T00:00:00 (excl.)
We provide the following time spans with predefined lengths:
| Timespan | Description |
|---|---|
| Today | includes exactly those data points collected today, starting at 00:00 ending at the current time of day. |
| Yesterday | includes exactly those data points collected yesterday, starting at 00:00 of yesterday ending at 00:00 of today |
| 7 days | includes exaclty data points from the last 7 complete days and those of the day that has started up to the current time of day. |
| 1 Month | includes at least* data points from the last complete month and those of the month that has started up to the current time of day. |
| 3 Month | includes at least* data points from the last 3 complete month and those of the month that has started up to the current time of day. |
| 6 Month | includes at least* data points from the last 6 complete month and those of the month that has started up to the current time of day. |
| 12 Month | includes at least* data points from the last 12 complete month and those of the month that has started up to the current time of day. |
*Adjustments
The actual length of the selected time span is automatically extended to cover full time bins depending on the selected resolution! See Availabilities and Combinations.
Resolution
The resolution is the length of the time spans of the individual bins, also called time bins, used in series charts. The combination of the selected time span and the resolution defines the actual length of the time span and thus the number of series data points presented in series charts.
Example: A selected time span of *1 day* with resolution *hour* produces 24 time bins. While a selected time span of *7 days* and resolution of *day* produces 8 time bins, the last seven complete days and the current incomplete(!) day.
We support the following predefined resolutions:
| Resolution | Description |
|---|---|
| Hour | one time bin always starts at hh:00 and has the length of either one hour or the current incomplete hour*. |
| Day | one time bin always starts at 00:00 of the day and has the length of either one day * or the current _incomplete day_. |
| Week | one time bin always starts Mondays 00:00 of the week and has the lngth of either one week or the current incomplete week*. |
| Month | one time bin always starts at the first of the month 00:00 and has the length of either the month in question or the current incomplete month*. |
*Incomplete Bins
The last bin of a time series is always an incomplete time bin ending at the current date time.
Availabilities and Combinations
The following combinations of time spans and resolutions are available. Assuming the current date time now = 2022-08-30T22:37:50 the table shows the exact final time spans for the individual combinations:
| 2022-08-30T22:37:50 | hour | day | week | month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| today | 2022-08-30* - now | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| yesterday | 2022-08-29* - 2022-08-30* | n.a. | n.a. | n.a. |
| 7 days | n.a. | 2022-08-23* - now | n.a. | n.a. |
| 1 month | n.a. | 2022-07-01* - now | 2022-06-27* - now | n.a. |
| 3 months | n.a. | 2022-05-01* - now | 2022-04-25* - now | 2022-05-01* - now |
| 6 months | n.a. | 2022-03-01* - now | 2022-02-28* - now | 2022-03-01* - now |
| 12 months | n.a. | 2021-08-01* - now | 2021-07-26* - now | 2021-08-01* - now |
*Note, we omit the time (T00:00:00) of the date times for readability.
Comparison To Previous Time Span
We provide a comparison for each summary chart of each domain. Here, for each summary KPI there is a comparison with the time span having the same duration directly preceding the current time span. The change between the current value and the comparison value is presented as percentages. 