A popular technique to improve the scalability of a web based system is caching at proxy servers. Caching has the drawback that a cached page becomes stale when the page is update...
- This paper suggests that since web browsing is an interactive process and downloading a web page can take several seconds to several minutes over slow links, the information pres...
The competition on clients attention requires sites to update their content frequently. As a result, a large percentage of web pages are semi-dynamic, i.e., change quite often and...
Danny Dolev, Osnat Mokryn, Yuval Shavitt, Innocent...
An appreciation of the roles of genre and task is important in understanding how people browse the Web. Genre is characterized by content and form and is intimately linked to the ...
Carolyn R. Watters, Michael A. Shepherd, Forbes J....
The rapid growth of the web has been noted and tracked extensively. Recent studies have however documented the dual phenomenon: web pages have small half lives, and thus the web e...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Andrei Z. Broder, Ravi Kumar, Andr...