Missing histogram data for Nov 15, 2010

[Alex Bender]

https://cdn.httparchive.org/reports/top1k/2010_11_15/speedIndex.json

Response { type: "cors", url: "https://cdn.httparchive.org/reports/top1k/2010_11_15/bootupJs.json", redirected: false, status: 404, ok: false, statusText: "Not Found", headers: Headers, body: ReadableStream, bodyUsed: false }
histogram.js:1:4233

[Barry Pollard]

The ranking lenses (top 1000, 10000… 1 million) were only added from May 2021 so didn’t exist for 2010.

[Rick Viscomi]

One could argue that we shouldn't show start/end options for dates that we know are not supported by the lens. For example, some metrics provide a min/max date when we know about its availability window. Perhaps we should do the same for lenses.

httparchive.org/config/reports.json

Lines 118 to 125 in 5a63e50

 "bytesVideo": { 
   "name": "Video Bytes", 
   "type": "KB", 
   "description": "The sum of transfer size kilobytes of all videos requested by the page. A video is identified as a resource with the `mp4`, `swf`, `f4v`, or `flv` file extensions or a MIME type containing `flash`.", 
   "histogram": { 
     "minDate": "2015_05_01" 
   } 
 }, 

[Barry Pollard]

Potentially, but can also result in fighting the GUI and confusing users.

For example I'm in 10k lens (only available for 2022). I want as much WordPress data as possible. If the date was filtered, I might not realise there is a lot more than for 10k, and at the very least there's two steps.

So both ways have their downfalls.

Maybe a better option would potentially be to leave the date pickers alone, but use an error message (where it's less obvious what the limits are than for the timeseries):

"Error: Histograms for 10k are only available from April 2022"

[Alex Bender]

as a general rule, I suppose, if error could be precalculated\predicted, it's better to notify user beforehand

[Rick Viscomi]

Reopening so we can continue thinking through our options

[Alex Bender]

would it be possible to change it from dropdown to choicefiled?

[Rick Viscomi]

@alex-bender any interest in drafting that in a pull request?

[Alex Bender]

sure, will try to do that tomorrow

[Mike Gifford]

Any progress on this @alex-bender

[Alex Bender]

Hey, thanks for the ping. Looks like I can win longest stalled issue challenge.
Could you please describe a bit more what should be done since I'm not fully understand what's exactly should be done?

If there should be error message or notification, where should it be placed. In what case should it be displayed and so on..