Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Southeastcon '97. Engineering new New Century., Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Blacksburg, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3844-8
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.1997.598647
