Changes in the Web from 2000 to 2007

  • Authors:
  • Ramin Sadre;Boudewijn R. Haverkort

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Telematics and Information Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Centre for Telematics and Information Technology Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE

  • Venue:
  • DSOM '08 Proceedings of the 19th IFIP/IEEE international workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Managing Large-Scale Service Deployment
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The World Wide Web has undergone major changes in recent years. The idea to see the Web as a platform for services instead of a one-way source of information has come along with a number of new applications, such as photo and video sharing portals and Wikis.In this paper, we study how these changes affect the nature of the data distributed over the World Wide Web. To do so, we compare two data traces collected at the web proxy server of the RWTH Aachen. The first trace was recorded in 2000, the other more than seven years later in 2007. We show the major differences, and the similarities, between the two traces and compare our observations with other work. The results indicate that traditional proxy caching is no longer effective in typical university networks.