A sample statistical characterization of the World-Wide Web

Author

Lee, David C. ; Midkiff, Scott F.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

12-14 Apr 1997

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

178

Abstract

This paper provides a limited characterization of the World-Wide Web in terms of average document size, average transmission time, character frequencies, Hypertext transport protocol header sizes, document type frequencies, and server types. The data was obtained by recursively collecting statistical information about documents referenced by the www.yahoo.com index. This was done using a tool we call StatFetcher. In the study, 15,000 nodes were visited with an average of six of more documents retrieved per node. The results were used to determine opportunities for improving the Web performance

Keywords

Internet; information networks; performance evaluation; statistical analysis; Hypertext transport protocol header sizes; Internet; StatFetcher; Web performance; World-Wide Web; average document size; average transmission time; character frequencies; document type frequencies; sample statistical characterization; server types; statistical information; Automatic control; Error correction; Explosives; Frequency; HTML; Markup languages; Statistics; Transport protocols; Uniform resource locators; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '97. Engineering new New Century., Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Blacksburg, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3844-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1997.598647

Filename

598647