SpeedCurve vs Catchpoint (Powered by WebPageTest)

Go beyond speed. Master performance.

Upgrade to Catchpoint IPM, powered by WebPageTest - and transform how your team measures, monitors, and optimizes the entire Internet stack.

Full visibility. Faster debugging. Proven results.

Why switch to Catchpoint?

Take Your Performance Testing to the Next Level

Move beyond charts and page speed scores. Catchpoint IPM, powered by WebPageTest, helps you master digital performance.

It brings together the depth of WebPageTest with Catchpoint’s full Internet Performance Monitoring platform — giving your team end-to-end visibility, faster debugging, and insights that connect performance to business outcomes.

  • Go beyond front-end metrics: Monitor every layer — DNS, CDN, APIs, and network — to understand true user experience.
  • Debug faster: Combine filmstrips, waterfalls, and session replay to see exactly what users experienced before an issue.
  • Validate before release: Run no-code experiments to test optimizations instantly without touching production code.
  • Prove impact: Use Experience Scores and XLOs to tie site performance directly to SEO, conversions, and customer trust.
  • Scale with confidence: 3,000+ global agents, unified Synthetic + RUM data (including OTEL-based mobile app RUM), and seamless CI/CD integration for continuous monitoring.

Catchpoint vs SpeedCurve: See the difference

Category

SpeedCurve

Catchpoint IPM
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Performance Measurement

Page-level metrics (Core Web Vitals, Lighthouse, budgets)

Page-level metrics, user experience scores, SLAs, XLOs, trendshift analysis – with 5 years of high-definition data

Monitoring Depth

Front-end only

Deep monitoring for every aspect of internet stack across DNS, CDN, APIs, BGP, ISPs, endpoints, and more— Support for the latest internet technologies: IPv6, QUICK, http/3, MQTT, ECN, MCP and LLM monitoring, etc.

Session Replay

Video playback of real user sessions, integrated with waterfalls for instant debugging

Visualization & Analytics

Filmstrips, comparison videos, basic dashboards

Gold-standard waterfalls, filmstrips, AI Smartboards, multi-dimensional analysis, internet-stack dependency maps + Internet Sonar for SaaS/ISP/cloud health

Alerting & Root Cause Analysis

Basic alerts

AI-driven anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, automated root cause analysis, and proactive recommendations

No-Code experiments

Preview impact instantly before release

Real User Monitoring (RUM)

UX & conversion linkages

Unified Internet Synthetics + Enterprise grade RUM including Otel-based mobile app RUM

Experience Level Objectives (XLOs)

Metrics only, no tie to outcomes

Define & measure objectives based on true end-user experience, aligning performance to business outcomes. SLA tracking and burndown charts.

Testing Coverage

in the US, All cloud- based (AWS EC2 only)

3,000 intelligent agents worldwide across backbone, cloud, last mile, wireless networks, and BGP agents across multiple ISPs.

Long-Term Data Retention

Limited

Up to 7 years of history

Enterprise Scale

Limited

Used by top enterprises: Enterprise-grade security, 100+ integrations, SSO, APIs, CI/CD, 24/7 dedicated support available

Why teams love Catchpoint

Catchpoint combines the gold standard in web performance testing, WebPageTest, with the scale and intelligence of enterprise Internet Performance Monitoring — the choice for teams that need depth, speed, and reliability.

WebPageTest has long been the most advanced tool in any performance engineer’s toolbox. This closer integration with the broader Catchpoint suite gives us new and exciting capabilities to identify where and why users experience friction in their journey.

Rich Howard
CEO
Optimal

Catchpoint’s observability solution makes it easier to have a global visibility of our websites’ performance and to fix issues quicker.

Axel Adida
Digital Chief Operating Officer
L’Oréal

Our mean time to resolution has dropped considerably since we’ve deployed all of Catchpoint’s products. We’ve found that our MTTR dropped after we deployed RUM by helping us find root cause almost immediately.

Matthew Landolf
Director of Operations
Dotdash

We can run simultaneous tests with Catchpoint from different agents all over the world, which gives us a real comparison of what website performance looks like with and without Cloudinary and the optimizations that we can provide.

Gary Ballabio
VP of Technology Partnerships
Cloudinary

Ready to take your web performance to the next level?

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Protect what matters most: revenue, SEO, and customer trust. The world’s top digital teams don’t just test site speed; they deliver great web experiences everywhere, on every device.

With Catchpoint, so can you.

Catchpoint: a leader in internet performance monitoring