1. A metric processing system for processing metric information that reflects content processing parameters gathered with a network, the metric processing system comprising: a metric reporting application program interface (API) to gather a plurality of metric reporting messages related to a plurality of end user computing devices; a metric reduction function that translates reference type information from the plurality of metric reporting messages into value types to create value type information; a value translation store that retains the value type information derived from the plurality of metric reporting messages as value types in solid state memory; and a metric processing function that: causes retrieval of the value type information as a data structure from solid state memory, processes the value type information using stack memory to produce processed information that summarizes the value type information, and causes storing of the processed information.