.SH "PROGRESS METER"
curl normally displays a progress meter during operations, indicating the
amount of transferred data, transfer speeds and estimated time left, etc. The
-progress meter displays number of bytes and the speeds are in bytes per
-second. The suffixes (k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024
-bytes. 1M is 1048576 bytes.
+progress meter displays the transfer rate in bytes per second. The suffixes
+(k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576
+bytes.
curl displays this data to the terminal by default, so if you invoke curl to
do an operation and it is about to write data to the terminal, it