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A '''web accelerator''' is a proxy server that reduces web site[[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 device, on 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.

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Web accelerators may use several techniques to achieve this reduction in access time:

They may:

*[[web cache|cache]] recently or frequently accessed [[electronic document|documents]] so they may be sent to the [[client (computing)|client]] with less [[lag|latency]] or at a faster [[transfer rate]] than the remote [[server (computing)|server]] could.

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