Troubleshooting slow webpage downloads

Cui, Heng; Biersack, Ernst W
TMA 2013, 5th IEEE International Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop, in conjunction with INFOCOM 2013, 14-19 April 2013, Turin, Italy

One common way to search and access information available in the Internet is via a Web browser. When clicking on a Web page, the user expects that the page gets rendered quickly, otherwise he will lose interest and may abort the page load. The causes for a Webpage to load slowly are multiple and not easy to comprehend for an end-user. In this paper, we present FireLog, a plugin for the Firefox Web browser that relies on passive measurements during users' browsing, and helps identify why a web page loads slowly. We present details of our methodology and illustrate it in a case study with real users.


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Type:
Conférence
City:
Turin
Date:
2013-04-14
Department:
Sécurité numérique
Eurecom Ref:
4082
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