Journal article

Publication year: 2010

Pages: 93-99

Journal: International journal of advancements in computing technology

Volume number: 2

Issue number: 1

Publisher: Advanced Institute of Convergence IT

Abstract: 

The steadily increasing beautification of the Web causes some unique issues. Web pages following
contemporary visual design patterns require several tens of resources in order to be rendered. This
poses challenges in terms of data transfer costs and (user-perceived) latency in particular. This paper
proposes an approach to address this issue by reducing the amount of required requests per page as a
complement and enhancement to existing HTTP caching mechanisms. The basic idea is to bundle all
the referenced resources inside a hypertext document residing on the origin server and to send the
complete bundle to the requesting user agent. Thus, the number of requests required to fill or refresh
the client’s cache is minimized to exactly one request/response pair. This increases the total amount of
data to be sent in some cases, but reduces the amount of requests to be generated, send and processed
significantly in cache filling or refreshing contexts. This reduction of processing costs at the server
side results in lower energy costs which may out-weight, as the case may be, the additional transfer
costs.

Harvard Citation style: Gruschka, N., Lo Iacono, L. and Kang, N. (2010) Packaged HTTP: Reconsidering Web Efficiency, International journal of advancements in computing technology, 2(1), pp. 93-99

APA Citation style: Gruschka, N., Lo Iacono, L., & Kang, N. (2010). Packaged HTTP: Reconsidering Web Efficiency. International journal of advancements in computing technology. 2(1), 93-99.