[axaxs]

I think I'd rather just have predetermined steps/milestones. Think about it...what does 71 percent really mean? Would you get excited when it goes it 72? It's just an opaque, useless metric.

If instead I can see something like...step 1/5, downloading package... that's far more meaningful, at least to me.

[SulfurHexaFluri]

72 means it wasn't stuck on 71 and something is still happening.

[layer8]

I agree in that there should be text with the progress bar showing what the progress bar actually measures, e.g. “57 of 285 records processed” or “3:05 (ETA 10:34)”. If you can’t, then it’s a sign that a progress bar is probably not appropriate.