Enhancing Web Performance

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of techniques for improving Web performance. For improving server performance, multiple Web servers can be used in combination with efficient load balancing techniques. We also discuss how the choice of server architecture affects performance. We examine content distribution networks (CDN’s) and the routing techniques that they use. While Web performance can be improved using caching, a key problem with caching is consistency. We present different techniques for achieving varying forms of cache consistency.