These tests are completely useless, since most of the measurements are done at a point where response time has already degraded unacceptably. I don't need a we

These tests are completely useless, since most of the measurements are done at a point where response time has already degraded unacceptably. I don't need a web server that performs slightly better when massively overloaded. The sweet spot to measure is between a response time of 0s to 1s. After that, you need to be looking at getting more servers, anyways. A better benchmark would start by swapping the axes of the graph and asking the question: "how many users can I support while keeping response time acceptably low?"