<template>
<div>
<div class="wrap">
<h1>Hand it the measurements, not the quartiles</h1>
<p>
Every box below is built from 140 raw page-load timings. The series
carries those measurements and nothing else: the median, the quartiles
and the whiskers are computed for you. Switch the whisker rule to see
the choice it involves, because a distribution with a slow tail looks
like a different story depending on where the whisker stops.
</p>
<div class="actions">
<button data-whiskers="minmax" class="on">Whiskers: min to max</button>
<button data-whiskers="tukey">Whiskers: 1.5 x IQR</button>
</div>
<div class="chart-wrap">
<div id="chart">
<apexchart
type="boxPlot"
height="440"
width="700"
:options="chartOptions"
:series="series"
></apexchart>
</div>
</div>
<div class="note" id="note"></div>
</div>
</div>
</template>
<script>
import VueApexCharts from 'vue-apexcharts'
import ApexCharts from 'apexcharts'
// Shared by the vanilla-js, React and Vue builds.
//
// Each device gets its RAW measurements: one number per page load. No
// quartiles, no median, nothing precomputed. `points` is the sample, and the
// library derives the five-number summary from it.
var DEVICES = [
{ name: 'Desktop', center: 1.4, spread: 0.30, slowTail: 1.4 },
{ name: 'Laptop', center: 1.9, spread: 0.38, slowTail: 1.8 },
{ name: 'Tablet', center: 2.8, spread: 0.55, slowTail: 2.4 },
{ name: 'Phone (5G)', center: 3.2, spread: 0.62, slowTail: 3.0 },
{ name: 'Phone (3G)', center: 6.1, spread: 1.30, slowTail: 4.5 }
]
function makeSample(cfg, index) {
var seed = 8191 * (index + 3)
function rand() {
seed = (seed * 16807) % 2147483647
return (seed - 1) / 2147483646
}
var out = []
for (var i = 0; i < 140; i++) {
// Box-Muller, then a few genuinely slow loads: the tail is the point of
// the chart, and it is what the two whisker rules disagree about.
var u1 = Math.max(rand(), 1e-9)
var z = Math.sqrt(-2 * Math.log(u1)) * Math.cos(2 * Math.PI * rand())
var v = cfg.center + z * cfg.spread
if (i % 34 === 0) v = cfg.center + cfg.slowTail * (0.6 + rand())
out.push(Math.round(Math.max(0.2, v) * 100) / 100)
}
return out
}
var RAW = DEVICES.map(function (cfg, i) {
return { x: cfg.name, points: makeSample(cfg, i) }
})
function wireWhiskerControls(chart) {
var buttons = [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('[data-whiskers]'))
var note = document.querySelector('#note')
function apply(mode) {
buttons.forEach(function (b) {
b.className = b.getAttribute('data-whiskers') === mode ? 'on' : ''
})
chart.updateOptions({
plotOptions: { boxPlot: { whiskers: mode } }
})
if (note) {
note.textContent =
mode === 'tukey'
? 'Whiskers stop at 1.5 x IQR. The dots past the whisker are the outliers.'
: 'Whiskers reach the slowest and fastest load. Nothing is hidden.'
}
}
buttons.forEach(function (b) {
b.addEventListener('click', function () {
apply(b.getAttribute('data-whiskers'))
})
})
apply('minmax')
}
export default {
components: {
apexchart: VueApexCharts,
},
data: function () {
return {
series: [{
name: 'Load time',
type: 'boxPlot',
data: RAW
}],
chartOptions: {
chart: {
id: 'loadTimes',
type: 'boxPlot',
// Fixed width so the layout cannot shift with the page.
width: 700,
height: 440,
toolbar: {
show: false
},
},
plotOptions: {
boxPlot: {
colors: {
upper: '#5A87FF',
lower: '#B7BEFF'
},
// Every observation, drawn over its own box. With the 1.5 x IQR rule the
// dots beyond the whisker are exactly the outliers that rule excludes.
points: {
show: true,
size: 2.5,
jitter: 0.45,
opacity: 0.55,
},
},
},
legend: {
show: false,
},
yaxis: {
title: {
text: 'Page load (seconds)'
},
min: 0,
},
xaxis: {
title: {
text: 'Device'
},
},
tooltip: {
shared: false,
intersect: true,
},
},
whiskerTimer: null,
}
},
mounted: function () {
// The vue-apexcharts wrapper owns the render, so reach the live instance by
// its chart.id before wiring the controls.
var me = this
me.whiskerTimer = window.setInterval(function () {
var chart = ApexCharts.getChartByID('loadTimes')
if (!chart) return
window.clearInterval(me.whiskerTimer)
wireWhiskerControls(chart)
}, 50)
},
beforeDestroy: function () {
window.clearInterval(this.whiskerTimer)
},,
}
</script>
<style>
body {
font-family:
-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, sans-serif;
background: #fafbfc;
color: #2c3e50;
margin: 0;
padding: 32px 16px;
}
.wrap {
max-width: 780px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
h1 {
font-size: 22px;
margin: 0 0 8px;
}
p {
color: #5b6b78;
line-height: 1.5;
margin: 0 0 24px;
}
.chart-wrap {
background: #fff;
border-radius: 8px;
padding: 16px;
box-shadow: 0 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);
}
.actions {
margin: 20px auto 12px;
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
gap: 8px;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
}
.actions button {
color: #5b6b78;
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #dfe6ec;
padding: 7px 14px;
font-weight: 600;
font-size: 13px;
border-radius: 6px;
cursor: pointer;
}
.actions button.on {
color: #fff;
background: #008ffb;
border-color: #008ffb;
}
.note {
text-align: center;
font-size: 13px;
color: #5b6b78;
margin-top: 12px;
min-height: 20px;
}
</style>