Web server workload characterization: the search for invariants
Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Self-similarity in World Wide Web traffic: evidence and possible causes
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A methodology for workload characterization of E-commerce sites
Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on Electronic commerce
The content and access dynamics of a busy Web site: findings and implications
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication
In search of invariants for e-business workloads
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
What TCP/IP protocol headers can tell us about the web
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Characterizing the scalability of a large web-based shopping system
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Characterizing reference locality in the WWW
DIS '96 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on on Parallel and distributed information systems
Summary of WWW characterizations
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Characterization of E-Commerce Traffic
WECWIS '02 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS'02)
A workload characterization study of the 1998 World Cup Web site
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Characterizing customer groups for an e-commerce website
EC '04 Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Evaluating the performance of user-space and kernel-space web servers
CASCON '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Finding representative workloads for computer system design
Finding representative workloads for computer system design
A service-oriented priority-based resource scheduling scheme for virtualized utility computing
HiPC'08 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on High performance computing
WISE'12 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
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Electronic commerce servers have a significant presence in today's Internet. Corporations require good performance for their business processes. To date, little empirical evidence has been discovered which identifies the types requests that users make of E-commerce systems. In this papers we examine the request level characteristics of the web site of a multinational car-rental company based on a 24 hour web server log. Our main conclusions are: i) An E-commerce web page typically contains many small image files and some popular image files are always requested together; ii) The percentage of requests for each service tends to be stable throughout the day when the time scale is large enough (10 minutes in this case); iii) Significant proportions of the requests are for dynamic pages and require the Secure Socket Layer protocol (SSL); and iv) most web objects are either requested primarily through SSL or primarily through non-SSL.One of the performance implications with respect to the image request patterns is that these image files should be bundled to reduce the number of requests a client issues as well as the server overhead to transfer these small image files separately. The server should arrange its resource allocation taking the request mix into account in order to improve performance. Finally, the use of SSL with respect to the various objects suggests that further study is needed to determine for which pages it is appropriate to use these security measures as they have both performance and security implications.