Our new project site is going to be client facing, so it needs to be as fast and flashy as our work will be. We needed some monitoring tools to make sure our clients got the right impression from us.

We looked for performance tools, but most were really hard to understand. Speedcurve looked nice and made sense, but it was really expensive for the data it provided.

I discovered Request Metrics online, which looks very similar but a lot cheaper. The interface was a lot faster than Speedcurve too, which seemed like a good sign for a performance company.