How to interpret or calculate Crystal Report Performance Timing?

HI,
I have been trying to interpret the Performance Information/Performance Timing of a Crystal Report. When I access this information from Crystal designer menu I see several fields but I don't know exactly which one gives you the total execution time in miliseconds or how do you calculate the total time using the fields.
Help to interpret the following information will be appreciate. Example:
MainReport.rpt
Open Document:   0 ms
Run the Database Query:   703 ms
Read Database Records:   92 ms
Format First Page:   949 ms
Number of pages formatted:   2
Average time to format a page:   474 ms
Number of page starts generated:   13
Average time to generate a page start:   13 ms
Subreport.rpt
Run the Database Query:   4 ms   For all instances
Read Database Records:   2 ms   For all instances
Number of page starts generated:   3
Average time to generate a page start:   0 ms   For all instances
Number of subreport instances formatted:   1
Time to format all subreport instances:   38 ms
Thanks!

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