Over the last week and weekend, I took a fresh look at the matrices on the CPAN Testers Statistics site, following some suggestions from tester MW487, The matrices as they previous stood, didn't really reveal that much. Plus as the active cells were so spread out, reading each matrix was awkward.

Firstly the numbers for Reports and Distributions were merged into the same cells, thus making it easier to see the corrolation between the number of reports submitted and the number of distributions being tested. In addition the split between the matrices is now based on general OS name and the platform reference in the perl -V block. The reasons for this are twofold; firstly it makes it a little more obvious where testing is lacking, and thus where new testers might want to concentrate their efforts, and secondly for users to highlight Operating Systems and platforms where testing is well supported.

The next step was to provide matrices that covered only officially released perls, as well as all released perls, followed by matrices that highlighted testing within the last month, as well as the whole of CPAN testing. Lastly I've brought back the colour coding, or fading, to further highlight testing strengths and weaknesses.

There a now further plans to expand the matrices, but these are the first major changes. Expect more work on the statistics in the coming months.