A Survey on Web Pre-Fetching Techniques

web is a rich domain of opportunities, where different kind of data and knowledge is available. To get advantage of these data a huge amount of internet users access the web. The content distribution over internet is a complex task, in this process a number of intermediate proxy servers, ISP servers are participating. In order to get advantage of the distributable contents on client end web pre-fetching techniques are used to deliver data efficiently. In this paper, we learn about the process of web pre-fetching and evaluating different web pre-fetching techniques that are recently developed. Web prefetching and web caching both are the two major areas of research to reduce the latency. Web caching is used to reduce temporal latency and Web prefetching is used to reduce spatial latency. Finally based on basis these studies, a more optimum new web pre-fetching technique is proposed using data mining technique. Keywords— web prefetching, web caching, proxy server, kmeans, cluster, outlier.