THRESHOLD VARIANCE REVIEW · 2026-05-17

Dashboard arrows — neutral threshold

Distribution of |delta| per metric across 90 day-over-day pairs in ~/Downloads/dare_analytics_cache/.

Recommended threshold: 2.0% — see the report markdown alongside this file for the full reasoning ("What this tells us / Watch items / Recommendations" pattern).
MetricPref dirnp50p90p990.3% 0.5% 1.0% 2.0%
% of moves < threshold (would show →)
Requestsup1026.55%57.42%1551.77%0% 10% 10% 10%
Page viewsup1021.28%158.21%894.63%0% 0% 0% 10%
Unique visitorsup1014.70%53.60%853.91%0% 0% 0% 10%
Bandwidthneutral1059.77%179.41%1498.46%10% 10% 10% 10%
Threats blockedup1059.02%752.00%11082.19%0% 0% 0% 0%
Cache hit rateup107.47%22.86%39.26%0% 0% 10% 10%
4xx sharedown1011.50%55.74%79.77%0% 0% 10% 20%
5xx sharedown1025.99%656.00%1114.70%0% 0% 0% 10%
404 countdown1014.25%41.97%1932.72%10% 10% 10% 20%

Source: ~/Downloads/dare_arrows_threshold_review.py. Latest snapshot: 2026-05-03 → 2026-05-16.