queries and server load ???
 

What is considered average, normal, and excessive levels for the number of queries and server load???

Thanks in advance.

well, that depends on the page and the script normal is around 10 - 15 queries, but if you're on some special places (for example posting a new post) it could be more as well

if you get a value over 30 then you could say that's overaverage, but also there are some places where that ammount is needed :)

The ammount of queries isn't really representative of the server and time load ...
A big and complex query could be really longer to be ran than 2-3 or 3 simple queries for exemple :)

Ideal server load: 0.00
Good shared server load (single processor): 0.30
Starting to be bad server load (single processor): 1.00
Starting to be painful server load (single processor): 2.00

Dual processors affect the load representation (I think double the max values, so 2.00 would start to be bad).