Because hell I have no idea what I am looking at when I look at those numbers.
I get the DPS, HPS and dispels, especially on something like Zul, but parses is something I cannot get my head around.
Sounds like you got it.
Parse is just a fancy word for ingesting the text file of your (and everybody else’s) combat logs and plucking out the data.
DPS, HPS, Dispels, etc are all outcomes of the parse.
WarcraftLogs does a bit more with that data - including comparing you to everyone else with a percentile rank.
Think of it like this:
Of all of the people who matched certain criteria (such as ilevel), your “parse” is where you fall in terms of performance. If you “parsed” at 33%, then you did better than 33% of players who matched your criteria and worse than 66% of the players.
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Parses basically mean that for all the people logged for this fight, you land in say, the 70th percentile. Which would mean you did better than roughly 70% of the players logged for that fight and worse than 30%.
They have a couple different parses as well. The ilvl column for example will restrict the comparison to only other players of your spec who fall within the same 5ilvl bracket as you.
A parse is a WoW term for a percentile. Basically it tells you what percentage of scores in your category you were better than. A 50th percentile parse means that your score was better than 50% of the other scores in the group being discussed. If you have the highest score in the group being looked at then you would have a 99th percentile b/c you were better than 99% of the scores in your group (You can’t be better than your own score so 100th percentile does not technically exist, even though Warcraft Logs assigns that score, incorrectly).