A Workload Characterization Study of the 7998 World Cup Web Site
Martin F. Arlitt, Tai Jin · 2000
This article presents a detailed workload characterization study of the 1998 World Cup W e b site. Measurements from this site were collected over a three-month peri-od. During this time the site received l.35 billion re uests, making this the largest throu h comparison with existing characterization studies, we are able to deter-m i n e l o w W e b server workloads are evolving. W e find that improvements in the caching architecture of the World Wide W e b are changing the workloads of W e b servers, but major im rovements to that architecture are still necessary. In particu-lar, we uncover ev i lence that a better consistency mechanism is required for World Wide W e b caches. W e b workload analyzed to date. By examining a t i s extremely busy site and he 16th Federation Internationale de Football Associa-tion (FIFA) World Cup was held in France from June