Using speculation to reduce server load and service time on the WWW
CIKM '95 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Using path profiles to predict HTTP requests
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Web prefetching between low-bandwidth clients and proxies: potential and performance
SIGMETRICS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Predicting users' requests on the WWW
UM '99 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on User modeling
Web caching and replication
Predicting web actions from HTML content
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Pre-sending Documents on the WWW: A Comparative Study
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
A New Markov Model For Web Access Prediction
Computing in Science and Engineering
Determining WWW User's Next Access and Its Application to Pre-fetching
ISCC '97 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '97)
Neural Nets Based Predictive Prefetching to Tolerate WWW Latency
ICDCS '00 Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ( ICDCS 2000)
Exploiting Webspace Organization for Accelerating Web Prefetching
WI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence
A Real-Time Evolutionary Algorithm for Web Prediction
WI '03 Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence
An Experimental Framework for Testing Web Prefetching Techniques
EUROMICRO '04 Proceedings of the 30th EUROMICRO Conference
NPS: a non-interfering deployable web perfectching system
USITS'03 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 4
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
Mining longest repeating subsequences to predict world wide web surfing
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
Exploring the bounds of web latency reduction from caching and prefetching
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Alleviating the latency and bandwidth problems in WWW browsing
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
A user-focused evaluation of web prefetching algorithms
Computer Communications
Web prefetch performance evaluation in a real environment
Proceedings of the 4th international IFIP/ACM Latin American conference on Networking
An Intelligent Technique for Controlling Web Prefetching Costs at the Server Side
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
An Empirical Study on Maximum Latency Saving in Web Prefetching
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Using current web page structure to improve prefetching performance
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A novel prediction model based on hierarchical characteristic of web site
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Analyzing and accelerating web access in a school in peri-urban India
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Cost-Benefit analysis of web prefetching algorithms from the user’s point of view
NETWORKING'06 Proceedings of the 5th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
Speculative validation of web objects for further reducing the user-perceived latency
NETWORKING'10 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 6 international conference on Networking
A comparison of prediction algorithms for prefetching in the current web
Journal of Web Engineering
A framework of online proxy-based web prefetching
WISM'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Web Information Systems and Mining
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Web prefetching techniques have been pointed out to be especially important to reduce perceived web latencies and, consequently, an important amount of work can be found in the open literature. But, in general, it is not possible to do a fair comparison among the proposed prefetching techniques due to three main reasons: (i) the underlying baseline system where prefetching is applied differs widely among the studies; (ii) the workload used in the presented experiments is not the same; (iii) different performance key metrics are used to evaluate their benefits.This paper focuses on the third reason. Our main concern is to identify which are the meaningful indexes when studying the performance of different prefetching techniques. For this purpose, we propose a taxonomy based on three categories, which permits us to identify analogies and differences among the indexes commonly used. In order to check, in a more formal way, the relation between them, we run experiments and estimate statistically the correlation among a representative subset of those metrics. The statistical results help us to suggest which indexes should be selected when performing evaluation studies depending on the different elements in the considered web architecture.The choice of the appropriate key metric is of paramount importance for a correct and representative study. As our experimental results show, depending on the metric used to check the system performance, results cannot only widely vary but also reach opposite conclusions.