TY - GEN
T1 - WebMedic
T2 - 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2021
AU - Naseer, Usama
AU - Benson, Theophilus A.
AU - Netravali, Ravi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/2/24
Y1 - 2021/2/24
N2 - Users in developing regions still suffer from poor web performance, mainly due to their unique landscape of low-end devices. In this paper, we uncover a root cause of this suboptimal performance by cross-analyzing longitudinal resource (in particular, memory) profiles from a large social network, and the memory consumption of modern webpages in five regions. We discover that the primary culprit for hitting memory constraints is JavaScript execution which existing optimizations are ill-suited to alleviate. To handle this, we propose WebMedic, an approach that trades-off less critical functionality of a webpage to directly address memory and performance problems.
AB - Users in developing regions still suffer from poor web performance, mainly due to their unique landscape of low-end devices. In this paper, we uncover a root cause of this suboptimal performance by cross-analyzing longitudinal resource (in particular, memory) profiles from a large social network, and the memory consumption of modern webpages in five regions. We discover that the primary culprit for hitting memory constraints is JavaScript execution which existing optimizations are ill-suited to alleviate. To handle this, we propose WebMedic, an approach that trades-off less critical functionality of a webpage to directly address memory and performance problems.
KW - Memory performance
KW - Mobile web
KW - Web optimizations
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U2 - 10.1145/3446382.3448652
DO - 10.1145/3446382.3448652
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102073127
T3 - HotMobile 2021 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
SP - 71
EP - 77
BT - HotMobile 2021 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 24 February 2021 through 26 February 2021
ER -