PREFETCHING RESULTS OF WEB SEARCHES
Harry J. Foxwell, Daniel A. Menascé · 1998
This paper examines the behavior of users of Web search sites. The paper shows that for some sites and user populations, the probability that a user will access a document is high enough to justify prefetching it. A formula for the average hit ratio as a function of the number of prefetched documents and the distribution of access to documents returned by search engines is derived. The optimal number of documents to prefetch is computed using the formula and measurement data