Analyzing the Impact of Dynamic Pages on the Performance of Web Servers.
Maria Anita Mendes, Virgilio A. F. Almeida · 1998
Dynamic Web pages have a fundamental role in electronic commerce and intranets, where information changes constantly and needs immediate and automatic update. Despite this fact, little work has been done on the analysis and characterization of the effects of dynamic content on the performance of Web servers. Based on this fact, this paper presents a series of experiments to compare performance of several technologies of dynamic content over the NT platform. Static and dynamic pages (interpreted and compiled CGI and Microsoft's ASP technology) are also compared. Based on experimental results, the authors show that traditional typical dynamic applications (virtual pages of small size or page hit counters) do not degrade performance of Web servers and operating systems. On the other hand, large dynamic applications, such as heavy CGI or database transactions have strong impact on performance of Web servers and operating systems. d Ph.D. Student at CS-UFMG. Partially supported...