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Web pages have drastically evolved from single files with some links to very complex structures consisting of a multitude of elements which the user’s Web browser dynamically collects from a widely distributed crowd of servers. Analyzing active traffic measurements of the home pages to the 100 most popular services in the United States, this paper reveals that services nowadays show a large variation in characteristic measures such as the number of elements on a page, the amount of bytes a page consists of, and even the number and logical locations of servers contacted.
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Charzinski, J. (2009). Traffic, Structure and Locality Characteristics of the Web’s Most Popular Services’ Home Pages. In: David, K., Geihs, K. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS). Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92666-5_14
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