A workload characterization study of the 1998 World Cup Web site

Author

Arlitt, Martin ; Jin, Tai

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Parkard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

2000

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

37

Abstract

This article presents a detailed workload characterization study of the 1998 World Cup Web site. Measurements from this site were collected over a three-month period. During this time the site received 1.35 billion requests, making this the largest Web workload analyzed to date. By examining this extremely busy site and through comparison with existing characterization studies, we are able to determine how Web server workloads are evolving. We find that improvements in the caching architecture of the World Wide Web are changing the workloads of Web servers, but major improvements to that architecture are still necessary. In particular, we uncover evidence that a better consistency mechanism is required for World Wide Web caches

Keywords

Internet; cache storage; information resources; performance evaluation; search engines; telecommunication traffic; 1998 World Cup Web site; Internet; Web server workloads; World Wide Web caches; caching architecture; measurements; workload characterization study; HTML; History; Laboratories; Network servers; Service oriented architecture; TV; Telecommunication traffic; Web server; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/65.844498

Filename

844498