An Evaluation of Web Acceleration Techniques for the Developing World *

Abstract Web clients in the developing world experience long response time due to poor network connectivity. This paper evaluates existing and new web acceleration techniques using access traces from Iraq, Zambia, and Cambodia. We validate the effectiveness of proxy caching and observe around 40% cache hit ratio. But our evaluation finds limited benefit of web prefetching (<1% hit rate by the history-based prefetching that previously reported around 10% hit rat