Impact of HTTP Pipelining Mechanism for Web Browsing Optimization

With the rapid development and popularization of Web technology, how Web applications can be accessed quickly by users has become a concern in all Web application developers. At present, the optimization of the HTTP protocol is considered a mainstream method to achieve maximum generality Web acceleration. Among the optimization techniques, HTTP pipelining technology optimizes the traditional mechanisms of HTTP protocol interaction, resulting in a dramatic improvement in page load time. In this paper, the formulae for calculating page load time under four kinds of HTTP request contrast mechanisms were deduced by mathematical modeling. Then in order to accurately assess the impact of pipelining mechanism for web browsing optimization, the simulation of network protocol is carried out with different network environments and page features. Finally based on these results, some recommendations of HTTP pipelining configuration under different conditions are given.