Proxy server experiment and the changing nature of the web

The use of proxy server could help provide adequate access and response time to large numbers of World Wide Web (WWW) users requesting previously accessed page. While some studies have reported performance increase due to the use of proxy servers, a study reported performance decrease associated with the use of proxy server. Due to lack of recently published scholarly article that test the performance of proxy server, we carry out an in-depth study of the behavior of a proxy server over a six month period. The result of the study showed that hit ratios of the proxy servers range between 21% to 39% and over 70% of web pages are dynamic. The study indicates the effectiveness of the proxy server and helps evaluate the tradeoff between money spent on higher bandwidth lower latency connections, versus the cost/performance of using a caching intermediary.