The case for persistent-connection HTTP
SIGCOMM '95 Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
The Harvest information discovery and access system
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
WWW Traffic Reduction and Load Balancing through Server-Based Caching
IEEE Parallel & Distributed Technology: Systems & Technology
The case for geographical push-caching
HOTOS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V)
A self-scaling and self-configuring benchmark for Web servers (extended abstract)
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A performance evaluation of hyper text transfer protocols
SIGMETRICS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A scalable and highly available system for serving dynamic data at frequently accessed web sites
SC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Bringing the web to the network edge: large caches and satellite distribution
Mobile Networks and Applications
Summary of WWW characterizations
World Wide Web
A performance study of the Squid proxy on HTTP/1.0
World Wide Web
Improving the performance of interactive TCP applications using service differentiation
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Towards a new internet architecture
Proxy Cache Algorithms: Design, Implementation, and Performance
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Handling Multiple Bottlenecks in Web Servers Using Adaptive Inbound Controls
PIHSN '02 Proceedings of the 7th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks
SRPT Scheduling for Web Servers
JSSPP '01 Revised Papers from the 7th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Overload Behaviour and Protection of Event-driven Web Servers
Revised Papers from the NETWORKING 2002 Workshops on Web Engineering and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Size-based scheduling to improve web performance
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Improving web application testing with user session data
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Estimating the service time of web clients using server logs
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Workshop on data communication in Latin America and the Caribbean
Experiences with an object-level scalable web framework
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Characterization of a large web site population with implications for content delivery
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Leveraging User-Session Data to Support Web Application Testing
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Web servers under overload: How scheduling can help
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Active names: flexible location and transport of wide-area resources
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
Connection scheduling in web servers
USITS'99 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems - Volume 2
Web++: a system for fast and reliable web service
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Flash: an efficient and portable web server
ATEC '99 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Review: Task assignment policies in distributed server systems: A survey
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Quantitative modeling for web objects’ cacheability
WAIM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Workload analysis of a large-scale key-value store
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE joint international conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
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There is a great deal of research about improving Web server performance and building better, faster servers, but little research in characterizing servers and the load imposed upon them. While some tremendously popular and busy sites, such as netscape.com, playboy.com, and altavista.com, receive several million hits per day, most servers are never subjected to loads of this magnitude. This paper presents the analysis of internet Web server logs for a variety of different types of sites. We present a taxonomy of the different types of Web sites and characterize their access patterns and, more importantly, their growth. We then use our server logs to address some common perceptions about the Web. We show that, on a variety of sites, contrary to popular belief, the use of CGI does not appear to be increasing and that long latencies are not necessarily due to server loading. We then show that, as expected, persistent connections are generally useful, but that dynamic time-out intervals may be unnecessarily complex and that allowing multiple persistent connections per client may actually hinder resource utilization compared to allowing only a single persistent connection.