Activity Compare Page

The activity compare page overlays activities on top of each other so you can track progression (e.g. of interval sessions) compare different athletes and so on. You can find it on the main menu as “Compare Activities”.

The charts and tables are configured using buttons on the toolbar under the charts:

  • “Charts”: Select charts to display (power, heart rate etc.) including custom charts
  • “Columns”: Choose columns for the activity table at the bottom
  • “Fields”: Choose interval fields to display on the table to the right of the charts
  • “Progress”: Choose interval fields for the progress charts under the main charts (“Avg Power”, “Avg HR” etc.)

Click the coloured dots to toggle activities on and off.

Use the “Options” button to choose between time and distance on the x-axis of the main charts. Distance is useful for outdoor workouts:

The selected charts, columns etc. and other options are stored per tab. Use the tabs near the top of the page to switch between them. Use the plus button to add new tabs and Actions → Edit tab to rename.

Click the legend items at the top of the page to shift activity traces left/right to line up intervals:

Click and drag to zoom on the trace charts to highlight the intervals you are interested in. These will be displayed on the interval table and on the progress charts.

You can choose activities to compare using the activity list view on the calendar page:

And from the activities tab on the athletes page:

You can also click the search icon on the compare activities page to find activities by name or #tag. Tick the ones you want and click “Add”.

The search icon next to it searches for activities with matching intervals by intensity and time:

Intensity is average power / FTP, average heart rate / threshold HR or average pace / threshold pace.

You can also select a set of intervals on the activity detail page and click the search icon to go to the compare page with the activity selected and interval search populated:

Other operations are on the “Actions” menu:

The “Search for similar intervals” option opens the interval search with search parameters matching the currently visible intervals (intensity, duration and number of reps).

Use “Save” and “Save As” to save a set of activities. The name of the current set is displayed on the right hand side at the top of the screen. You can click that to save changes:

Use “Open” to retrieve previously saved sets:

The “Map” button on the toolbar displays a popup map. Click the legend items at the top to choose which activity is displayed on the map.

This feature was developed with lots of input from the Intervals.icu community. Thanks everyone! The original development post is here:

Note that this will probably become a premium feature (for supporters only) at some point.

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Complimenti @david una funzione eccezionale. nessun problema per il sostenitore, ormai lo sono da anni e te lo meriti

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Hats off! :congratulations: No more multiple tabs and switching back and forward! It’s just awesome! Thank you!

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FANTASTIC @david .
Strava will soon be surpassed

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Man, you are the best!!!

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There’s a second use case for this: you can compare power meters. Do a ride with both power meters, recording each to different devices, so you get two FIT files. Then compare them using this tool.

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Hello, it looks really cool, but I add more than one activity to buy, click the “Compare activities” button and nothing happens, could you help?

I did the same thing and nothing happened. But if you go to the left hand side bar you will see just above settings the compare activities tab which takes you to the results of your request.

Hope this helps as it is a really cool feature.

Where do you this? I just tested from the activity list view and it worked.

Same here. If i select 2 activities from the Athletes screen and click on compare, it seems like nothing is happening. But as stated above, when you select the compare tab, you will see the comparison.

When comparing two files from different riders. I’m getting some weird data results:

I know for sure that the blue avg isn’t 496. Is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?

That “Avg” is for all the intervals for that activity that are selected and visible on the chart. You can click it to see which Intervals are included.

This is great, but also speaks into a wish I’ve had in the back of my head for a while: Ability to change the x-axis to be distance rather than time. This would make it more useful to compare rides on the same route - as opposed to workouts on the same timescale. Different usecase for suere and I imagine this could be a significant headache, but I figured I’d put it out there.

Do you mean this ?

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Oh damn. Egg on my face. No notes.

Hi David, great work!!!

Is it possible to see the right table values with the whole info calculated using the entire of visible chart data which has several work intervals inside? (kind of “merge” of several intervals).

I have charts that includes some intervals inside… and I do not want to delete those intervals and create a big one (in the activity), just want to see the “big picture” of the intervals together and compare…

I know, for some metrics like power, average value of the intervals selected is OK, but for others like decoupling “avg” does not work equally because the way how the data in the interval is gathered.

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Thanks!

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This is great. I really really appreciate it. Have been looking for this function forever since I stopped using SportTracks and I don’t use Strava.

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Great feature.

But, I have a request,
When doing intervals outdoors, the warmup/cooldown before/after might vary in time and distance.
This can cause the intervals to not line up correctly. It would be really nice if there could be a way to individually offset the activity data such that one can manually align the intervals.
Or maybe an option for only showing the interval data, aligning them. That would help to compare outdoor activities :slight_smile:

(Please let me know if there is a way to align the data already)

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You can click the legend items at the top and edit the distance or time offset applied to the activity:

I have auto lining up intervals on the todo list.

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Awsome, thanks for the tip :slight_smile:

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