Site Health: More human readable values

[birgire]

I wonder if the info displayed on the /wp-admin/site-health.php?tab=debug page should be more human readable.

For example:

PHP time limit	90

It might not be obvious to everybody that it's in seconds. What about:

PHP time limit	90 seconds

instead? Similarly:

Max input time	90

We have:

Themes Directory Size	8.56 MB

and:

memory: 2 GB

but we're missing the "Bytes" and the extra space in:

PHP memory limit	512M
Upload max filesize	32M
PHP post max size	32M

It would be great to have unit-consistency here, that would make it easier to understand.

Some of these values originate from e.g. php.ini that uses it's own special formatting, but I wonder if that would be relevant for many users.

Maybe the more technical information/values could be in the "copied" text and
the more human readable values displayed on the admin page?

[birgire]

Language info - before

[birgire]

Language info - after

[Clorith]

The debug information is intended to be technical, it is meant to be shared with a support person or similar, so the primary focus isn't on the human readable aspect of it.

As the values are a direct representation of what they are in various config locations, they really shouldn't be modified in any way either, as it would skewer the data for anyone looking it up with technical insight them selves.

Due to the above, I'm going to mark this as wontfix for now, if anything does come up that indicates it should be otherwise in the future, I'm willing to reconsider at that time though.

[birgire]

Thank you for reviewing @Clorith

On the other hand there are already various display values being adjusted to make them more human readable.

For example the values of constants like:

'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY'    => array(
	'label' => 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY',
	'value' => WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY ? __( 'Enabled' ) : __( 'Disabled' ),
	'debug' => WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY,
),

I found this recent ticket #46909 to Provide a user-friendly value for default comment status. The display value of the default comment status option default_comment_status is now modified with:

'default_comment_status' => array(
	'label' => __( 'Default comment status' ),
	'value' => 'open' === $default_comment_status ? _x( 'Open', 'comment status' ) : _x( 'Closed', 'comment status' ),
	'debug' => $default_comment_status,
),

Similar for the display of the user_registration option's value. So for different languages these could be very different from the saved DB value.

The PHP config option max_execution_time is displayed as PHP time limit and copied as time_limit, so it's already not an exact one-one relation between the config option and the displayed value.

I wonder if e.g. info bubbles on each item, would be helpful regarding these nuances of displaying human readable info and exact technical info.

[zodiac1978]

Coming from ​https://github.com/WordPress/health-check/issues/332

I would like to add some more ideas:

Sometimes the server sends the data in Bytes (eg. 268435456 instead of 256 Mebibyte) or respond with "-1" (meaning unlimited or the value from another config is used).

I like the idea of @birgire using the raw data directly from the server (using the *exact* phrase to support technical people) and additionally a more explanatory version which is more readable. Like adding "seconds" or translating Bytes to MiB, explaining what -1 means or showing the value which is used instead of the -1, and so on ...