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Network performance effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Prud'hommeaux, Eric Nielsen, Henrik Frystyk Baird Smith, Anselm Lie, Håkon Wium Gettys, James Lilley, Chris
Abstract	We describe our investigation of the effect of persistent connections, pipelining and link level document compression on our client and server HTTP implementations. A simple test setup is used to verify HTTP/1.1's design and understand HTTP/1.1 implementation strategies. We present TCP and real time performance data between the libwww robot [27] and both the W3C's Jigsaw [28] and Apache [29] HTTP servers using HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1 with persistent connections, HTTP/1.1 with pipelined requests, and HTTP/1.1 with pipelined requests and deflate data compression [22]. We also investigate whether the TCP Nagle algorithm has an effect on HTTP/1.1 performance. While somewhat artificial and possibly overstating the benefits of HTTP/1.1, we believe the tests and results approximate some common behavior seen in browsers. The results confirm that HTTP/1.1 is meeting its major design goals. Our experience has been that implementation details are very important to achieve all of the benefits of HTTP/1.1.For all our tests, a pipelined HTTP/1.1 implementation outperformed HTTP/1.0, even when the HTTP/1.0 implementation used multiple connections in parallel, under all network environments tested. The savings were at least a factor of two, and sometimes as much as a factor of ten, in terms of packets transmitted. Elapsed time improvement is less dramatic, and strongly depends on your network connection.Some data is presented showing further savings possible by changes in Web content, specifically by the use of CSS style sheets [10], and the more compact PNG [20] image representation, both recent recommendations of W3C. Time did not allow full end to end data collection on these cases. The results show that HTTP/1.1 and changes in Web content will have dramatic results in Internet and Web performance as HTTP/1.1 and related technologies deploy over the near future. Universal use of style sheets, even without deployment of HTTP/1.1, would cause a very significant reduction in network traffic.This paper does not investigate further performance and network savings enabled by the improved caching facilities provided by the HTTP/1.1 protocol, or by sophisticated use of range requests.
Starting Page	155
Ending Page	166
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISBN	089791905X
DOI	10.1145/263105.263157
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1997-10-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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