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Webaccelerator
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Awebacceleratorisaproxyserverthatreduceswebsiteaccesstime.Theycanbeaselfcontainedhardwareapplianceorinstallablesoftware.
Webacceleratorsmaybeinstalledontheclient(browsing)computerormobiledevice,onISPservers,ontheservercomputer/network,oracombination.
Acceleratingdeliverythroughcompressionrequiressometypeofhostbasedservertocollect,compressandthendelivercontenttoaclientcomputer.

Contents
1 Techniques
2 Webclientaccelerator
2.1 Comparison
3 Webserveraccelerator
3.1 Comparison
4 Clientserver
5 Externallinks
6 References
6.1 CommercialWebAccelerators

Techniques
Webacceleratorsmayuseseveraltechniquestoachievethisreductioninaccesstime:
Theymay
cacherecentlyorfrequentlyaccesseddocumentssotheymaybesenttotheclientwithlesslatencyoratafastertransferratethantheremoteservercould.
freshenobjectsinthecacheensuringthatfrequentlyaccessedcontentisreadilyavailablefordisplay.
preemptivelyresolvehostnamespresentinadocument(HTMLorJavaScript)inordertoreducelatency.
prefetchdocumentsthatarelikelytobeaccessedinthenearfuture.
compressdocumentstoasmallersize,forexamplebyreducingthequalityofimagesorbysendingonlywhat'schangedsincethedocumentwaslast
requested.
optimizethecodefromcertaindocuments(suchasHTMLorJavaScript).
filteroutadsandotherundesirableobjectssotheyarenotsenttotheclientatall.
maintainpersistentTCPconnectionsbetweentheclientandtheproxyserver.
improvetheperformanceviaprotocollevelaccelerations,suchasTCPacceleration.
Thesetechniquesalignwithbestpracticeswhicharetypicallyrecommendedtoimprovetheperformanceofwebapplications.[1]

Webclientaccelerator
AsofJuly2006,theseapplicationsgenerallyservetoimprovedialup,broadbandandotherconnectionsfromwhichusersmaynotbegettingthebestspeed.Many
userscanachievea2to10timesspeedincreaseinaveragebrowsingexperience,whilesomereporta5to20timesspeedincreasesforspecificwebsitesand
pages.ManyISPsofferwebacceleratorsasapartoftheirdialupandbroadbandservices.Webacceleratorsaretypicallydesignedforwebbrowsingand,
sometimes,foremailingandcannotimprovespeedsofstreaming,gaming,P2PdownloadsormanyotherInternetapplications.However,thereissubstantialwork
beingdoneonclientsideWebAcceleratorsforApplicationDeliveryNetworksbyseveralcompaniesincludingCiscoSystemsandF5Networksasthedemandfor
SaaSandPaaSlooksettogrowamongsmallandmediumenterprises.

Comparison

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Compression

Operating
system

Browser

Caching

Prefetching

Optimize
code

Preemptive
hostname
resolution

Ad
removal

Client

Connection

Price

ApacheTraffic
Server

withplugin

Linux,Unixlike

CACHEbox

None

Appliance(Linux)

All

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Enduser,
ISP

Broadband,
Satellite,
Wireless,
Fiber,DSL

Commercial

CProxy

Gzip,images

Windows

All

user

upto756kbit/s

Freedemo,
fullversion
35USDper
year

Fasterfox

None

Windows,Mac,
LinuxandMobile
devices

Firefox

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

user

Dialup,
Wireless,
Broadband,
DSL

Free

fasTun(no
longer
available)

Images,text&any
gzippabledata

Any

Any

No

No

HTML
CSS

Yes

Yes

All

Any

Free

Freewire

Imagesandemail
attachments

Windows,except
NTand95

Internet
Explorer5.0
orhigher

No

No

No

ISP

Dialup

localrate

GoogleWeb
Accelerator
(discontinued)

Yes

Windows

Explorer,
Firefox

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

user/Google
server

Broadband

Free

HeighSpeed

None

Windows

Any

Yes

No

No

No

No

All

Any

Commercial

No

EndUser,
ISP

Dialup,
Broadband,
DSL,ISDN,
Satellite,
Wireless

24.99

No

EndUser,
ISP

Dialup,
Broadband,
DSL,ISDN,
Satellite,
Wireless

$29.95a
year($5.95+
taxper
monthin
Canada)

Netfury

Images,Text,
Email,HTTP
downloads

Nitro

Images,Text,
Email,HTTP
downloads

free

Windows,Mac

Explorer,
Firefox,
Opera,
Netscape

Windows,Mac

Explorer,
Firefox,
Opera,
Netscape

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

OnSpeed

Text&Images&
Windows,Macand
Flash&Office
Mobiledevices
Docs

Any

No

No

No

No

No

user

Dialup,
Wireless,
Broadband,
DSL

$49.99(US)
24.99pa
Free(for
usersofBT
Yahoo!
Dialup
Internetin
theUK)

OperaTurbo

Images,httpheader Android,Linux,
optimizationand MacandWindows
anygzippabledata
devices

Opera

Yes

No

No

No

No

user/Opera
server

Any

Free

Unix(Linux,
*BSD,MacOSX,
others),Windows

Any

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

user/ISP

Any

Free

Yes

No

No

No

No

EndUser,
ISP

Dial,DSL,
ISDN,
Satellite,
wireless

$44.95US
peryear.
Freewith
manyISP
subscriptions

Polipo

None

Propel

Images,Text,
Email,PDF,HTTP
downloads

Windows,Mac

Explorer,
Firefox,
Opera,
Netscape

Proxyconn
Web
Accelerator

Text&Images&
Flash&Office
Docs

Windows,Mac,
Mobiledevices

Any

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

user

Dialup,
Wireless,
Broadband,
DSL

$47.88
Yearlyor
$5.95
Monthly

RabbIT4

Images,text&any
gzippabledata

Anysystemwith
Java1.6ornewer
VMavailable

Any

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

ISP

Any

Free

Squid

None

Unix(Linux,
*BSD,MacOSX,
others),Windows

Any

Yes

No

No

No

No

user/ISP

Any

Free

Toonel

Text&Images

Windows,Linux,
MacOS,Symbian,
WindowsMobile

Any

No

No

No

No

No

user/ISP

Any

Free

WinGate

Reliesonorigin

Windows(2000
onwards)

Any

Yes

No

No

No

No

All

Any

Commercial

No

HTML
JavaScript
CSS

Yes

Yes

ISP

Any

Free

Ziproxy

Unix(Linux,
Images,text&any
*BSD,MacOSX,
gzippabledata
others)

Any

No

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Otherwebacceleratorsaretargetedatthewebsiteorwebapplicationowners.Thistypeofwebacceleratorisinstalledinfrontofwebserversandapplication
serversanduseavarietyoftheabovetechniquestoimproveperformancetoallusersaccessingtheacceleratedwebsitesorwebapplications.Webserver
acceleratorsaresometimesreferredtoasreverseproxiesorApplicationDeliveryControllers.[2]
Thistypeofserversideacceleratorhastheaddedbenefitofoffloadingtransactionsandconnectionmanagementsfromtheweborapplicationsserversandhence,
reducingitsCPUutilizationandincreasingwebserverorapplicationscalabilitytohandlemoreuserswithlessbandwidth.

Comparison
Web
server
accelerator

Compression

aiScaler

Gzip

Apache
TrafficServer

Operating
system
Linux

Browser

Caching

Edge
Side
Includes

Prefetching

Optimize
code

Preemptive
hostname
resolution

Ad
removal

Client

Connection

Price

All

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

All

HighSpeed

Commercial

Linux

CACHEbox

None

Appliance
(Linux)

All

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Enduser,
ISP

Broadband,
Satellite,
Wireless,
Fiber,DSL

Commercial

Ishlangu

Gzip

Appliance
(Linux)

All

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

All

HighSpeed

Commercial

LotServer

None

Linux,
Windows

All

No

No

No

No

No

No

Content
Provider

Any

Commercial

nginx

Gzip

Unix(Linux,
*BSD,Mac
OSX,Solaris,
AIX,others),
Windows

Any

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

No

user/ISP

Any

Free.
Commercial
support
available.

Polipo

None

Unix(Linux,
*BSD,Mac
OSX,others),
Windows

Any

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

user/ISP

Any

Free

SiteCelerate

Text&Images

Any

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

No

user/ISP

Any

PerCPU

None

Unix(Linux,
*BSD,Mac
OSX,others),
Windows

Any

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

No

user/ISP

Any

Free

Any

Yes

Yes
(including
stitching
together
compressed
ESI
fragments)

No

No

No

IfYou
want.

All

Any

Free.
Commercial
supportand
servicesare
available.

Any

No

No

No

HTML
JavaScript
CSS

Yes

Yes

ISP

Any

Free

Squid

Varnish

Ziproxy

Unix(Linux,
Gziponthefly
*BSD,Mac
compressionand
OSX,Solaris,
decompression
others)
Images,text&
anygzippable
data

Unix(Linux,
*BSD,Mac
OSX,others)

Clientserver
Theremaybetwosectionstotheproxyaswellaserverportionsitsinfrontofthewebserverandcapturestheinputandoutputfromtheserverandaclientportion
sitsinfrontoftheenduser'swebbrowsertocapturetheinputandoutputfromthebrowser.

Externallinks
WebAccelerators(https://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Products_and_Tools/Software/Server/)atDMOZ

References
1. Multiple(wiki)."Webapplication".Docforge.Retrieved20121213.
2. http://aiscaler.com/whatisanapplicationdeliverycontrolleradc

CommercialWebAccelerators
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InstartLogic
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