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After a run, you will need to analyze your data. Grinder console gives real time graphs, but I find getting the results into an Excel/OpenOffice spreadsheet and then going over it much easier. After your runs, look into the log directory for files named out*.log. These are CSV files that can be imported into any spreadsheet program easily. I’ve attached a template below into which you can paste the raw data and see the results. Note that I consider only 100 rows - very unrealistic since you will have thousands of records! I did this so that the file size is small. You can change the formulas where it says row 100 to row whatever you want. Also note that some formulas are array formulas - they are surrounded by curly braces - you need to press CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER after updating such formulae.
The above graph shows how much was the average response time for each test in 5 second slots. It also shows how many tests were run per second.
GrinderAnalyzer is another free tool that does pretty much the same thing. One thing I found missing in that is to see side-by-side comparison of the response times from different tests.
Since in reality, you won’t be testing Google, you should come up with a checklist against your own application before you run the tests. Few things I can think of are below.