Reducing web page loading time

• US 9,049,246 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2012
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): LIN, WEN TAI
• Application Number:
  US13/407,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20130227056A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,190 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 method, comprising:

monitoring, by a client-side agent executed by a processing device, a client machine for outgoing communications from the client machine, the outgoing communications comprising a web page request, wherein the web page request originated from a web browser of the client machine that is not modified to interact with the client-side agent, and wherein the client-side agent directs an installation of a hook at an operating system (OS) of the client machine to catch the outgoing communications from the web browser;

changing, by the client-side agent, a destination port number of a detected outgoing communication to an updated port number of a web server extension component corresponding to the client-side agent, the web server extension component comprising a module that is executing on a web server corresponding to the 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 resources corresponding to the page source code, wherein the web server extension component identifies and gathers the resources in view of parsing the page source code and sends the resources as a single compressed file to the client-side agent;

decompressing the single compressed file to recover the page source code and the resources;

during the decompressing;

sending the decompressed page source code to the client machine; and

storing the decompressed resources at a data store of the client-side agent; and

when a request by the client machine for any of the resources is intercepted, sending, by the client-side agent, the decompressed resources corresponding to the requested resources to the client machine;

wherein the decompressed resources stored at the client-side agent to be sent to other client machines corresponding to the client-side agent when the other client machines request the resources as part of other web page requests.

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

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

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the decompressed resources are stored in the data store of the client-side agent until requested by the client machine.

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

6. 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 to;

monitor a client machine for outgoing communications from the client machine, the outgoing communications comprising a web page request, wherein the web page request originated from a web browser of the client machine that is not modified to interact with the client-side agent, and wherein the client-side agent directs an installation of a hook at an operating system (OS) of the client machine to catch the outgoing communications from the web browser;

change a destination port number of a detected outgoing communication to an updated port number of a web server extension component corresponding to the client-side agent, the web server extension component comprising a module that is executing on a web server corresponding to the 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 resources corresponding to the page source code, wherein the web server extension component identifies and gathers the resources in view of parsing the page source code and sends the resources as a single compressed file to the client-side agent;

decompress the single compressed file to recover the page source code and the resources;

during the decompressing;

send the decompressed page source code to the client machine; and

store the decompressed resources at a data store of the client-side agent; and

when a request by the client machine for any of the resources is intercepted, send the decompressed resources corresponding to the requested resources to the client machine;

wherein the decompressed resources stored at the client-side agent to be sent to other client machines corresponding to the client-side agent when the other client machines request the resources as part of other web page requests.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the page source code of the web page is received prior to and separately from the resources associated with the page source code.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the page source code of the web page and the resources are received as one or more compressed packages.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the decompressed resources are stored in the data store of the client-side agent until requested by the client machine.

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

11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that, when accessed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

forward, by a web server extension module executed by the processing device 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 corresponding to the web server extension module, wherein the web page request originated from a web browser of the client machine that is not modified to interact with the client-side agent, and wherein the client-side agent directs an installation of a hook at an operating system (OS) of the client machine to catch outgoing communications from the web browser;

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

parse, by the web server extension module, the page source code to identify resources corresponding to page source code;

request, by the web server extension module, the identified resources from the web server component;

compress, by the web server extension module, the identified resources that are received from the web server component into an archive file; and

send, by the web server extension module, the page source code and the archive file to the client-side agent as one or more packages, wherein the identified resources are stored at the client-side agent and sent from the client-side agent to other client machines corresponding to the client-side agent when the other client machines request the resources as part of other web page requests.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the client-side agent is located on a local area network (LAN) of a client machine originating the web page request.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the page source code is compressed with the identified resources that are received from the web server component into the archive file.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the page source code is sent prior to and separately from the compressed resources of the archive file.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, 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 a web server pack extension and the client-side agent.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the client-side agent redirects HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) communications addressed to the server machine to a web server pack extension.