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WebMedic: Disentangling the Memory-Functionality Tension for the Next Billion Mobile Web Users

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Theophilus A. Benson,

Ravi NetravaliAuthors Info & Claims

HotMobile '21: Proceedings of the 22nd International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Pages 71 - 77

https://doi.org/10.1145/3446382.3448652

Published: 24 February 2021 Publication History

Abstract

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.

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WebMedic: Disentangling the Memory-Functionality Tension for the Next Billion Mobile Web Users
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web interfaces
      1. Browsers
2. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network performance modeling

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