How many requests-per-second are you getting right now? What's the CPU utilization like with this level of usage? What's the back-end stack? What's the norma

How many requests-per-second are you getting right now? What's the CPU utilization like with this level of usage? What's the back-end stack? What's the normal latency like? I'm just wondering why it would go down due to heavy traffic, when all it serves is basic text?