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29th September 2000

Web Traffic Logs: An Imperfect Resource for Evaluation

“Replaying or simulation using web traffic logs are common methods of evaluating proxy caches. Request traces are also used to characterize typical web workloads. Unfortunately, most common, publicly available request logs have serious deficiencies because of what is omitted from the logs. In this paper we enumerate a number of these deficiencies and examine the benefits of more complete logs.”

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