REDUCING WEB PAGE LOADING TIME USING A BACKWARDS-COMPATIBLE MECHANISM

• US 20130227056A1
• Filed: 02/28/2012
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Vecera, Martin, Petrovicky, Lukas
• Granted Patent: US 9,049,246 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

A backwards-compatible mechanism for reducing web page loading time is disclosed. A method includes forwarding, by a web server extension module of a server machine, a web page request to a web server component of the server machine, the web page request received from a client-side agent associated with the web server extension module. The method further includes receiving, from the web server component, page source code of a web page of the web page request, parsing the page source code to identify one or more resources associated with page source code, requesting the identified one or more resources from the web server component, compressing resources of the one or more resources that are received from the web server component into an archive file, and sending the page source code and the archive file to the client-side agent as one or more packages.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

monitoring, by a client-side agent of a computing device, a client machine for outgoing communications from the client machine;

changing, by the client-side agent, a destination port number of a detected outgoing communication to a port number of a web server extension component associated with the client-side agent, the web server extension component comprising a module that is executing on a web server associated with a web page request of the outgoing communication;

forwarding, by the client-side agent, the web page request to the web server extension component via the updated port number;

receiving, by the client-side agent, page source code of a web page of the web page request and one or more resources associated with the page source code;

sending, by the client-side agent, the page source code to the client machine; and

when a request by the client machine for any of the one or more resources is intercepted, sending, by the client-side agent, the requested resources to the client machine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the page source code of the web page is received prior to and separately from the one or more resources associated with the page source code.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the page source code of the web page and the one or more resources are received as one or more compressed packages.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

decompressing the one or more compressed packages; and

during the decompressing, sending the decompressed page source code to the client machine.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more resources are stored in a datastore of the client-side agent until requested by the client machine.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the client machine is located on a same local area network (LAN) as the client machine.

7. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

forwarding, by a web server extension module of a server machine, a web page request to a web server component of the server machine, the web page request received from a client-side agent associated with the web server extension module;

receiving, by the web server extension module from the web server component, page source code of a web page of the web page request;

parsing, by the web server extension module, the page source code to identify one or more resources associated with page source code;

requesting, by the web server extension module, the identified one or more resources from the web server component;

compressing, by the web server extension module, resources of the one or more resources that are received from the web server component into an archive file; and

sending, by the web server extension module, the page source code and the archive file to the client-side agent as one or more packages.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the client-side agent is located on a local area network (LAN) of a client machine originating the web page request.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the page source code is compressed with the received resources into the archive file.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the page source code is sent prior to and separately from the compressed resources of the archive file.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein separate communications of the page source code and the archive file are sent to the client-side agent using multiple threads of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communication between the web server extension module and the client-side agent.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the client-side agent redirects HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communications addressed to the server machine to the web server extension module.

13. A system, comprising:

a memory;

a processing device communicably coupled to the memory; and

a client-side agent executable from the memory by the processing device, the client-side agent operable to;

monitor a client machine for outgoing communications from the client machine;

change a destination port number of a detected outgoing communication to a port number of a web server extension component associated with the client-side agent, the web server extension component comprising a module that is executing on a web server associated with a web page request of the outgoing communication;

forward the web page request to the web server extension component via the updated port number;

receive page source code of a web page of the web page request and one or more resources associated with the page source code;

send the page source code to the client machine; and

when a request by the client machine for any of the one or more resources is intercepted, send the requested resources to the client machine.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the page source code of the web page is received prior to and separately from the one or more resources associated with the page source code.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the page source code of the web page and the one or more resources are received as one or more compressed packages.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the client-side agent is further operable to:

decompress the one or more compressed packages; and

during the decompression, send the decompressed page source code to the client machine.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more resources are stored in a datastore of the client-side agent until requested by the client machine.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the client machine is located on a same local area network (LAN) as the client machine.

19. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

forwarding, by a web server extension module of a server machine, a web page request to a web server component of the server machine, the web page request received from a client-side agent associated with the web server extension module;

receiving, by the web server extension module from the web server component, page source code of a web page of the web page request;

parsing, by the web server extension module, the page source code to identify one or more resources associated with page source code;

requesting, by the web server extension module, the identified one or more resources from the web server component;

compressing, by the web server extension module, resources of the one or more resources that are received from the web server component into an archive file; and

sending, by the web server extension module, the page source code and the archive file to the client-side agent as one or more packages.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the client-side agent is located on a local area network (LAN) of a client machine originating the web page request.

21. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the page source code is compressed with the received resources into the archive file.

22. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the page source code is sent prior to and separately from the compressed resources of the archive file.

23. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein separate communications of the page source code and the archive file are sent to the client-side agent using multiple threads of a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communication between the web server pack extension and the client-side agent.

24. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the client-side agent redirects HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communications addressed to the server machine to the web server pack extension.