# Evaluating app performance using apdex, let's dive in and look at an example!

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**Created:** [May 2, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/evaluating-app-performance-using-apdex-lets-dive-in-and-look-at-an-example/3475 "2024-05-02T20:34:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![michael](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/michael/32/319_2.png) [@michael](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/michael)\
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One of our big goals this year is to improve the performance of the CHT for health workers as they interact with their apps. There are many variables that can affect performance of the app: complexity of configuration, amount of data on the device, and the specs of the device itself, to name a few.

One of our first steps towards improving app performance was by making it easier to measure and evaluate performance across the entire app. We did this by improving the [telemetry system](https://docs.communityhealthtoolkit.org/apps/guides/performance/telemetry/) in two ways:

1. we added telemetry to more areas of the app; and
2. we included an apdex score on several pages

Apdex is a measurement of a user’s level of satisfaction based on the response time of requests when interacting with an application. [This article](https://sematext.com/blog/how-to-use-your-apdex-score-to-measure-user-satisfaction/#how-is-apdex-score-calculated-the-formula) gives a good overview of what apdex is and how it is calculated. But the end result is that we are able to calculate a “Score” for a given page or interaction, and have a framework for how that score can be interpreted.

_(NOTE: apdex improvements are in [4.7.0](https://docs.communityhealthtoolkit.org/core/releases/4.7.0/))_

## Evaluate app performance using apdex

**Scenario:** We set up a test server with these new features and ran automated tests that simulated user interactions on actual devices. Then we looked at the telemetry records for all of the interactions and displayed these in a dashboard.

**Example:** In the screenshot below, let’s look at `contact_detail:village:load`. This is recorded whenever the detail view of the Contact Page loaded a “village” (_the [contact\_type](https://docs.communityhealthtoolkit.org/apps/reference/app-settings/hierarchy/#app_settingsjson-contact_types), which is dependent on your configuration_).

**Results** 👇🏽

1. In our testing scenario, users **loaded the village screen 40 times** (23 + 15 + 2)
2. **23 of those 40 times** , the response time was _ **\< 3 seconds** _
3. **15 of those 40 times** , the response time was _ **between 3 and 12 seconds** _
4. **2 of those 40 times** , the response time was _ **more than 12 seconds** _
5. Based on this, our **apdex score for this page** is calculated to be _ **0.76** _
6. **0.76** evaluates to having a “_ **Fair** _" score

With these scores, we have some concrete data to understand where users are most often experiencing slowness and where we might want to focus our efforts. In a subsequent post, I’ll highlight how we are already using this data to inform decisions.

 ![Screenshot 2024-05-02 at 3.50.32 PM copy](https://communityhealthtoolkit.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4ba822b071516e0a1b81aaf6f0504f35a9613f50.png)