diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionDetails/Distribution/index.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionDetails/Distribution/index.tsx
index 90439a4194179..2ff7079efa58a 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionDetails/Distribution/index.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionDetails/Distribution/index.tsx
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export class Distribution extends Component<Props> {
       <div>
         <EuiTitle size="s">
           <h5>
-            Response time distribution{' '}
+            Transactions duration distribution{' '}
             <EuiToolTip
               content={
                 <div>
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/List/index.js b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/List/index.js
index 54657ded388f5..d9620f441a2a4 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/List/index.js
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/List/index.js
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function tpmLabel(type) {
 }
 
 function avgLabel(agentName) {
-  return agentName === 'js-base' ? 'Page load time' : 'Avg. resp. time';
+  return agentName === 'js-base' ? 'Page load time' : 'Avg. duration';
 }
 
 const TransactionNameLink = styled(RelativeLink)`
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/view.js b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/view.js
index 4bb6ef6337fb1..dd64af6d12b6f 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/view.js
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/app/TransactionOverview/view.js
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class TransactionOverview extends Component {
     const ChartHeaderContent =
       hasDynamicBaseline && get(license.data, 'features.ml.isAvailable') ? (
         <MLTipContainer>
-          <EuiIconTip content="The stream around the average response time shows the expected bounds. An annotation is shown for anomaly scores &gt;= 75." />
+          <EuiIconTip content="The stream around the average duration shows the expected bounds. An annotation is shown for anomaly scores &gt;= 75." />
           <MLText>
             Machine Learning:{' '}
             <ViewMLJob
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/shared/charts/TransactionCharts/index.js b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/shared/charts/TransactionCharts/index.js
index 6d42bc2d8230d..38fe1fe7b206d 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/shared/charts/TransactionCharts/index.js
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/apm/public/components/shared/charts/TransactionCharts/index.js
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ function responseTimeLabel(type) {
     case 'route-change':
       return 'Route change times';
     default:
-      return 'Response times';
+      return 'Transactions duration';
   }
 }