Bookmarks for world wide web documents with indicators of the hit rates for the web documents from the web sites sending the documents

摘要

Activity rate information of the Web site providing the Web document at the particular time of day of the proposed request is presented to a user requesting a Web document at a receiving Web station so that the user may choose to request the Web document at a different time if there is an indication of high activity at the Web site which may cause a delay. Such activity rate information is presented as an indicator associated with a bookmark to the document of the proposed request. The rates of the numbers of specific Web documents transmitted from a source, i.e. hits during daily time cycles are tracked and indicators of said rates of transmission of said documents are displayed along with the respective bookmarks at the time that the selectable bookmarks are displayed.