[jberryman]

For most of the services I've looked this closely at, maximum would be a proxy for load. Or in the case of a benchmark suite you'd expect max to increase with the number of iterations. What do you find the maximum useful for?

[kqr]

Aren't all performance numbers a proxy for load, almost by definition?

I tend to look at them per request, per user, per iteration, and so on, to control for that effect.