A general methodology for characterizing access patterns andanalyzing Web server performance

摘要

We develop a general methodology for characterizing Web servernaccess patterns based on a spectral analysis of finite collections ofnobserved data from real systems. Our approach is used together with thenaccess logs from the IBM Web site for the 1996 Olympic Games tondemonstrate some of its advantages over previous methods and to analyzencertain aspects of large-scale Web server performance