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From the README:

> The Average HTTP Response

> As calculated from the most recent daily batch of telemetry data from the Firefox nightly build.

> But y tho?

> I was looking over some logs, trying to see if a new feature I had made had resulted in an increase of errors/non-200 responses as a quick and dirty "Did I break something" metric. I decided to throw the data in a spreadsheet and do stats at it before trying to do anything Python-y or whatever, but forgot to turn the error codes into strings, so they were treated as just values, meaning I got back things like averages and the like. I had just learn that Mozilla puts out public telemetry data, so I threw that into a spreadsheet, texted a friend the entire story, and he responded

> > Wow! That is AGGRESSIVELY useless!

> At that point I knew I must tell the world...