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Web Architecture Paper

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Web architecture:  Internet service providers – a service provider (SP) is a company that provides organisations, education, communications, storage, processing, and many other services with internet. Service providers such as virgin media, BT, EE, Tesco etc.  Web hosting services – this is where a user will buy a certain amount of storage space on a company’s network, which will then be visible to the public through a IP address, and store their website files so a third user can visit the website. This allows users to view the website by downloading packets of information.  Domain structure – the Domain Structures allows the users or the program to interpret different information. For example take the address: http://www.netflix.com/ The …show more content…

User side factors:  Download speed – the amount of data the user can download per second and is capped by their ISP. The slower the download speed for the user the slower the user can download the webpages and assets to view the website so the company will have to have to take their customers download speeds into account to decide what size of files is appropriate for their audience to access their website as quickly as possible.  PC performance factors – if the user is running multiple applications at the same time as trying to view the companies website then the website will load slower as the processor is trying to cope with all these operations. The company will then need to optimise their website to be less CPU intensive as possible by not running performance intensive scripts that operate on the users computer.  Browsers – there are many different types of browsers and most browsers conform to the same standard of interpreting and displaying the code but may differ from browser to browser so the company has to do some thorough testing to make sure the user is not left not being able to view the website due to the browser they are

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