Embedded Objects in Web Pages

An important characteristic of a Web page|the number of objects embedded in it|is di cult to obtain using publicly available sources of Web characterization data, such as proxy and server traces. It is important, however, to have an estimate for the number of embedded objects found in Web pages for modeling of realistic Web sites and workloads. We analyzed two data sets collected using active measurement technique and present our ndings in this paper. We compare our results to those obtained by others, and show that the complexity of Web pages, in terms of the number of embedded objects, steadily increases.