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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"Web pages"”.
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Testing Responsive Web Pages Using the Consistency of Automated Web Pages
… with smaller screens motivates the need for web pages that work correctly across many different devices—referred to as responsive web design. Mobile access is a key feature for companies: both to reach new customers, and also to provide an enhanced service to existing customers. Testing the …
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Measuring time to interactivity for modern Web pages
Web pages continually strive for faster loading times to improve user experience. However, a good metric for "page load time" is elusive. In particular, we contend that modern web pages should be evaluated with respect to interactivity: a page should be considered loaded when the user can fully …
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Opal: In Vivo Based Preservation Framework for Locating Lost Web Pages
… a framework for interactively locating missing web pages (http status code 404). Opal is an example of "in vivo" preservation: harnessing the collective behavior of web archives, commercial search engines, and research projects for the purpose of preservation. Opal servers learn from their …
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Girls' Engagement with Computers While Creating Web Pages During Middle Childhood
… 1) What patterns distinguish how girls engage in web page development during middle childhood? 2) What roles do environmental and personal factors play in the girls' engagement in the activity of web page development? 3) What are the perceived reasons for the girls' achievement in creating web …
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Using the Web Infrastructure for Real Time Recovery of Missing Web Pages
<p>Given the dynamic nature of the World Wide Web, missing web pages, or "404 Page not Found" responses, are part of our web browsing experience. It is our intuition that information on the web is rarely completely lost, it is just missing. In whole or in part, content often moves from one URI to …
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An aggregator tool for extraction and collection of data from web pages
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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To Relive the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Archival Replay of Web Pages
<p>When replaying an archived web page (known as a memento), the fundamental expectation is that the page should be viewable and function exactly as it did at archival time. However, this expectation requires web archives to modify the page and its embedded resources, so that they no longer …
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High school media center web sites: essential elements
… essential for a high school media center's Web page. A content analysis research method using high school media center Web pages was performed to verify contents and functionality, as well as similarities and differentiations. The results of this study indicated that some elements were …
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Effective Analysis, Characterization, and Detection of Malicious Activities on the Web
The Web has evolved from a handful of static web pages to billions of dynamic and interactive web pages. This evolution has positively transformed the paradigm of communication, trading, and collaboration for the benefit of humanity. However, these invaluable benefits of the Web are shadowed by …
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A novel defense mechanism against web crawler intrusion
<p>Web robots also known as crawlers or spiders are used by search engines, hackers and spammers to gather information about web pages. Timely detection and prevention of unwanted crawlers increases privacy and security of websites. In this research, a novel method to identify web crawlers is …
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Automatically Extract Information from Web Documents
… are a very important type of information on the Web. Such data objects are often records from underlying databases and displayed in Web pages with some fixed templates. Mining data records in Web pages is useful because they typically present their host pages' essential information, such as lists …
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Mobi : automatic customization of the mobile Web
Mobi is a system that automatically rewrites web pages into formats optimized for web browsing on mobile devices. The system estimates heuristically which parts of a web page's content users are most likely interested in, using previously recorded history of user actions on the Web. By doing so, …
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Web page performance analysis
… As one of the most popular computer systems, the Web is inevitably scrutinised in terms of performance analysis that deals with its speed, capacity, resource utilisation, and availability. Performance analyses for the Web are normally done from the perspective of the Web servers and the underlying …
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Improving Web Search Ranking Using the Internet Archive
Current web search engines retrieve relevant results only based on the latest content of web pages stored in their indices despite the fact that many web resources update frequently. We explore possible techniques and data sources for improving web search result ranking using web page historical …
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An affordance-inspired tool for automated web page labeling and classification
… that are capable of completing complex tasks on web pages is difficult due to the inconsistent nature of the pages themselves. While there exist best practices for developing naming schemes for page elements, these schemes are not strictly enforced, making it difficult to develop a general-use …
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DepTracker : tracking JavaScript dependencies on the web
Identifying the performance bottlenecks of Web pages is often the first step in reducing page load times. Existing models of Web pages (dependency graphs) ignore the dynamic interactions of JavaScript objects along these critical paths. Current dependency graphs solely include the dependencies that …
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A Lexical Approach for Classifying Malicious URLs
… for intelligent systems to identify malicious web pages. It has been shown that URL anal- ysis is an e\u21b5ective tool for detecting phishing, malware, and other attacks. Previous studies have performed URL classification using a combination of lexical features, network tra c, hosting …
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Creating a web page recommendation system for Haystack
The driving goal of this thesis was to create a web page recommendation system for Haystack, capable of tracking a user's browsing behavior and suggesting new, interesting web pages to read based on the past behavior. However, during the course of this thesis, 3 salient subgoals were met. First, …
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Making short flows finish faster with TCP
Users want web pages to load quickly. Because modern web pages make connections to many hosts, this requires that small flows complete quickly at high percentiles. We explore how to achieve this goal with protocols that do not require modifications to all the routers and agents transmitting the …
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The design and implementation of an input/output subsystem for a Farsi language search engine
… found in the United States for querying a web-based native Farsi language search engine. A document conversion utility consisting of a C program called html2unicode was constructed to convert the native language web pages into a common format. A Javascript keyboard application and …
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