App Speed - usertimings

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Name of related component: Documentation

URL of the documentation page 
:https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v2/usertim
ings

Issue summary:
By using the category, name and label you get a nice way to group events, so 
you can drill down on them. But I've noticed something unexpected in the 
results.

I'm using it like this:
sendTiming("HTTP",   7000, "CALL", "HTTP");
sendTiming("HTTP",   3000, "CALL", "DB");
sendTiming("HTTP", 10000, "CALL");

In GA I can see these results the next day
If I drill down to the 'label' level, I can see the HTTP and DB timings as 7 
and 3 secs. As expected.
But if I look at the 'name' level, I do not get the expected measurement of 10 
secs, but I get an average of 6.7 secs with 3 measurements. 
So apparently it always summarizes itself with its sub measurements, and then 
returns the average. eg (7+3+10) / 3 = 6.7.
To me, this seems weird, it shouldn't group different levels of timings. Seems 
like comparing apples and oranges.

So, probably I'm not using the api correctly.
But I just can't figure out what the right use case would be, for using 'label' 
measurements, when they are added and averaged with its parent.

The documentation just tells you the parameters are there, but not what the use 
case would be
Original issue reported on code.google.com by koen.die...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2013 at 7:36
AbdFatah / analytics-issues

App Speed - usertimings #273
