Uncovering the big players of the web

摘要: In this paper we aim at observing how today the Internet large organizations deliver web content to end users. Using one-week long data sets collected three vantage points aggregating more than 30,000 customers, characterize offered services precisely quantifying and comparing performance of different players. Results show that 65% traffic is handled by top 10 organizations. We observe that, while all them serve same type content, server architectures have been adopted considering load balancing schemes, servers number location: some handle thousands with closest being few milliseconds far away from user, others manage centers. Despite this, bulk transfer rate users are typically good, but impairment can arise when not readily available has be retrieved CDN back-end.