Network performance effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Internet Web servers: workload characterization and performance implications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Measuring Web performance in the wide area
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Bro: a system for detecting network intruders in real-time
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
PRO-COW: Protocol compliance on the web-a longitudinal study
USITS'01 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 3
Removing exponential backoff from TCP
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Cutting the electric bill for internet-scale systems
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
The new web: characterizing AJAX traffic
PAM'08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Passive and active network measurement
Web timeouts and their implications
PAM'10 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Passive and active measurement
Towards understanding modern web traffic
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Pitfalls in HTTP traffic measurements and analysis
PAM'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Quantifying the benefits of joint content and network routing
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS/international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Adoption barriers of network layer protocols: The case of host identity protocol
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
On the effects of time delay variations in the design of networked control system
International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
In this paper we analyze three and a half years of HTTP traffic observed at a small research institute to characterize the evolution of various facets of web operation. While our dataset is modest in terms of user population, it is unique in its temporal breadth. We leverage the longitudinal data to study various characteristics of the traffic, from client and server behavior to object and connection characteristics. In addition, we assess how the delivery of content is structured across our datasets, including the use of browser caches, the efficacy of network-based proxy caches, and the use of content delivery networks. While each of the aspects we study has been investigated to some extent in prior work, our contribution is a unique long-term characterization.