A Novel Approach for Determining Next Page Access

Reduction of World Wide Web user perceived latency has assumed importance in the wake of the fast development of Internet services and a huge amount of network traffic and hence adaptation of Web pages to the needs of a specific user is today´s trend of Web technologies. Although Web performance can be improved by caching, the benefit of using it is rather limited owing to filling the cache with documents without any prior knowledge. Web prefetching becomes an attractive solution wherein forthcoming page accesses of a client are predicted, based on access log information. This paper proposes a Zipfpsilas Law based novel approach for the determination of next page likely to be accessed by specific client.