Expose histogram buckets and underlying data in the API

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Name of related component: Data Export API
Request summary:

It should be possible to access the histogram buckets/data via the API. Current 
"Site Speed" reports expose this data under the "technical tab", which allows 
you to see the underlying distribution of the timing data, but there is no API 
method currently to export this data outside of GA.

For performance oriented analytics averages are useful but can be very 
deceiving: most distributions are skewed or multi-modal, which makes the 
"average" a meaningless metric in many cases.

Use Cases:

Performance analysis of page loading times, or any custom metrics (surfaced in 
user timing reports). 

http://www.igvita.com/2012/04/04/measuring-site-speed-with-navigation-timing/ - 
shows why the underlying distributions can be much more interesting and 
important than just looking at the averages.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by igrigo...@google.com on 1 May 2012 at 2:19

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Is there any other way to calculate apdex values for my applications without 
this data exposed through API?

Original comment by horacio....@gtempaccount.com on 26 Jul 2012 at 10:34

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Original comment by api.pe...@gmail.com on 16 Nov 2012 at 3:27

• Added labels: Component-CoreReportingAPI
• Removed labels: Component-DataExportAPI