Web Page Component Segmentation for Bandwidth Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing richness of web content leads to high bandwidth requirements for downloading web pages, as static components such as content formatting instructions and user interface elements are repeatedly downloaded, wasting network resources and time.
Innovation Solution
Intercepting web page requests to identify and separate static and dynamic components, storing static components in a cache, and transmitting only dynamic components with references to static components, allowing clients to reconstruct complete web pages efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If complete web pages including static components are transmitted with each request, then clients can access web pages, but network bandwidth is wasted due to repeated transmission of static content
Solution Approach 1:
The web page is divided into static components and dynamic components. Static components are separated and cached separately, while only dynamic components are transmitted with each request. This segmentation reduces the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network while ensuring clients can still access complete web pages.
Solution Approach 2:
Static components are identified and cached in advance before client requests. The system performs preliminary analysis to separate static from dynamic content, storing static portions in a cache. When clients request web pages, they only need to receive dynamic updates, as the static components are already prepared and available.
2Quantity of substance
If static components are cached and only dynamic components are transmitted, then bandwidth is reduced, but system complexity increases due to component separation and caching management
Solution Approach 1:
A proxy server or intermediary component is introduced between the web server and clients. This intermediary handles the complex tasks of analyzing web pages, separating static and dynamic components, and managing the cache. By offloading this complexity to the intermediary, the core server and clients can maintain simpler architectures.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically identifies, separates, and caches static components without requiring manual intervention. The intermediary server self-manages the caching strategy, analyzing content types and determining which portions are static versus dynamic, thereby reducing operational complexity.
3Loss of time
If web pages are downloaded completely each time, then clients receive all content, but loading time increases due to repeated download of static content
Solution Approach 1:
Static components are extracted from the complete web page and stored in a cache. When clients request web pages, only the dynamic components that have changed are transmitted. This extraction process eliminates redundant data transmission and significantly reduces page loading time while maintaining complete functionality.
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AI summary
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to reduction of web page transmission bandwidth by resolving a web page into static and dynamic components. An embodiment includes intercepting a request for a web page, retrieving the requested web page from a server, reading transmission instructions for the web page, the instructions based on an analysis of two or more identified versions of the web page, the analysis having identified one or more static and dynamic components of the web page, extracting the dynamic components of the retrieved web page based on the instructions, and providing the dynamic components of the web page along with one or more references to the static components in response to the request. Another embodiment includes constructing a web page for display using the received dynamic components and static components retrieved from a cache using the one or more references.