Understanding website complexity: Measurements, metrics, and implications

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 313-328

  Butkiewicz, Michael ^a   Madhyastha, Harsha V ^a   Sekar, Vyas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

page load times; web page complexity

Indexed keywords

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; NUMBER AND SIZE; PAGE LOAD TIMES; TEXT CONTENT; USER EXPERIENCE; USER SATISFACTION; WEB GRAPHS; WEB PAGE; WEB TRAFFIC; WEBSITE POPULARITY;

INTERNET;

WEBSITES;

EID: 82955186877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2068816.2068846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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