Web accelerator

Web accelerator definition - computer

(1) See CDN.

(2) Software that speeds up the retrieval of Web pages. Anticipating that a user might click a link on the current page, it downloads the linked pages in the background. Most of these utilities require nothing more than the browser, while others require a counterpart component in the server.



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