December 26, 2007
With the average web page made up of more than 50 objects (Krishnamurthy and Wills 2006), object overhead now dominates the latency of most web pages (Yuan 2005). Following the recommendation of the HTTP 1.1 specification, browsers typically default to two simultaneous threads per hostname. As the number of HTTP requests required by a web page increase from 3 to 23, the actual download time of objects as a percentage of total page download time drops from 50% to only 14% (see Figure 1).
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December 18, 2007
Faster than any other consumer technology, broadband achieved more than 50% adoption according to Pew Internet. Iceland leads the EU27 in household broadband penetration, according to a survey by EUROSTAT. Among active Internet users, broadband grew to 86.3% in November 2007.
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