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> In 2013, Gmail was available 99.978% of the time, which averages to less than two hours of disruption for a user for the entire year. Does anyone understand
by jamesclarke 13y ago
> In 2013, Gmail was available 99.978% of the time, which averages to less than two hours of disruption for a user for the entire year.
Does anyone understand why they use the term "averages" in this statement? What is being averaged? Isn't it just 0.022% * minutes in a year.
- bredman 13y agoI think this means not all outages tracked affected all users equally. Some users would have seen more or less downtime than the 2 hours mentioned.
- jamesclarke 13y agoYou are probably right. In which case they should also mention that 99.978% is also an average.