Questions about metrics and the Comapre plugin (Statistical Methods for Regression Analysis)

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Dear sitespeed.io developers, I am a computer science undergraduate student in my final period. Having said that, for the topic of my final project I chose to do a performance analysis between client-side and server-side rendering. So, basically I take the same website in csr (Client-Side Rendering) and ssr (Server-Side Rendering) and analyze the results of the metrics for both. I am currently using your wonderful tool for performance evaluation, extracting results of the following metrics: firstContentfulPaint, largestContentfulPaint, cumulativeLayoutShift, pageLoadTime, ttfb, maxPotentialFid and totalBlockingTime.

I'd like to ask if these metrics are suitable for the performance analysis I want to do, or if there are any that would fit better?
Also, with the compare plugin would I be able to do a test comparing the results of the csr site with the ssr site?

Start by reviewing the documentation for the listed performance metrics and the Compare plugin. Determine whether the metrics fit CSR-versus-SSR analysis and whether the plugin supports comparing results from the two sites. Done means documenting the guidance and any relevant usage limitations.