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A '''web accelerator''' is a [[proxy server]] that reduces [[website]] access time. They can be a self-contained hardware appliance or installable software.

Web accelerators may be installed on the client computer or mobile speed sdevicedevice, on [[Internet service provider|ISP]] servers, on the server computer/network, or a combination. Accelerating delivery through compression requires some type of host-based server to collect, compress and then deliver content to a client computer.

==Techniques==

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*freshen objects in the cache ensuring that frequently accessed content is readily available for display.

*preemptively [[Domain name system|resolve hostnames]] present in a document ([[HTML]] or [[JavaScript]]) in order to reduce latency.

*[[link (CIB)prefetching|prefetch]] documents that are likely to be accessed in the near future.

*[[data compression|compress]] documents to a smaller size, for example by reducing the quality of [[digital image|images]] or by sending only what's changed since the document was last requested.

*[[Optimization (computer science)|optimize]] the code<ref>{{cite web | url=https://page-audit.ru/wiki/Performance | title=Web page optimize | author=E. Geverin | work=Book }}</ref> from certain documents (such as [[HTML]] or [[JavaScript]]).

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* [[WinGate]]

* [[Ziproxy]]

* [[Varnish (software)|Varnish]]

==Web server accelerator==