Dynamic Web pages: Performance impact on Web servers

Internet Research

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 18-25

  Kothari, Bhupesh ^a   Claypool, Mark ^b  

^a Avici Systems   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Performance evaluation; Web server; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035587853     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240110365670     Document Type: Article

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