Performance < HTTP in the Yahoo! Directory

C10K problem
Scaling web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously.
www.kegel.com/c10k.html
The Case for Persistent-Connection HTTP
www.research.digital.com/wrl/techreports/abstracts/95.4.html
WebCompare - Web Server Benchmarks
webcompare.internet.com/bench.html
Optimizing Web Performance
eunuch.ddg.com/LIS/CyberHornsS96/j.rubarth-lay/PAPER.html
SPECweb96
Standardized benchmark for measuring basic Web Server performance
www.specbench.org/osg/web96
An Analysis of HTTP Performance
www.isi.edu/lsam/publications/http-perf/index.html
WWW-SPEED
This list is dedicated to the proposition that the web is just too darned slow, and that some of its key components have inherent performance problems that cannot be dealt with without changes to protocols.
sunsite.unc.edu/mdma-release
Web66 GStone Testing Laboratory
web66.coled.umn.edu/gstone
HTTP Performance Overview
www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance
Internet Performance and Statistics in the Press
Index maintained by MERIT's Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis (IPMA) team.
nic.merit.edu/ipma/press

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