Application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have become a severe threat
to the security of web servers. These attacks evade most intrusion prevention systems by …

There is a rich body of literature on measuring and optimizing nearly every aspect of the
web, including characterizing the structure and content of web pages, devising new …

We take a fresh look at Web page load performance from the point of view of user
experience. Our user study shows that perceptual performance, defined as user-perceived …

Caches are at the heart of latency-sensitive systems. In this paper, we identify a growing
challenge for the design of latency-minimizing caches called delayed hits. Delayed hits …

The World Wide Web (WWW) empowers people in develo** regions by eradicating
illiteracy, supporting women, and generating economic opportunities. However, their …

The existing slowness of the web on mobile devices frustrates users and hurts the revenue
of website providers. Prior studies have attributed high page load times to dependencies …

Over the past 20 years, websites have grown increasingly complex and interconnected. In
2016, only a negligible number of sites are dependency free, and over 90% of sites rely on …

Web performance is a hot topic, as many studies have shown a strong correlation between
slow webpages and loss of revenue due to user dissatisfaction. Front and center in Page …

The web serving protocol stack is constantly evolving to tackle the technological shifts in
networking infrastructure and website complexity. As a result of this evolution, web servers …

Tremendous effort has gone into the ongoing battle to make webpages load faster. This
effort has culminated in new protocols (QUIC, SPDY, and HTTP/2) as well as novel content …