"good" is kind of relative here.

it depends on things like your CPU speed, disk speed, bandwidth, how much work each request is doing and how much data is being served. 8.8 hits a second sounds pretty good. if each of those hits involves multiple database queries and sending out a 100K page, that's obviously better than handling 8.8 HEAD requests.

the real question is whether it's enough for your site. check your logs. are you getting more or less than 8.8 hits/second? that's your answer.

anders pearson