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As of June 2005, these applications generally serve to improve [[dial-up]] and other low speed connections. Many users can achieve a 2 to 3 times speed increase in average browsing experience, while some report a 5 to 10 times speed increases for specific web pages.

The first web accelerator was developed by Peak Technologies and made commercially available in November of 1996. The product, [[NetJet]] (renamed PeakJet) acted as a smart, caching proxy that provided link prefetching capabilities. [[NetJet]] was written in the Java language and could arguably be called the first commercial, shrink-wrapped application software. NetJet's core technology was extracted from the ExpressO Server core. ExpressO was developed by Innovative Desktop's founder [[Charles Thomas Russell]] in 1996.

[[Google]]'s [[Google_Web_Accelerator|Web Accelerator]] has attempted to improve [[broadband]] access to the sites. Moreover, they are designed for web browsing and, sometimes, for e-mailing and can not improve speeds of [[streaming]], gaming, P2P downloads or many other internet applications. Many ISPs offer web accelerators as a part of their dial up service.

WebSome web accelerators have been very controversial pieces of software. Critics claim that prefetching HTML page links slows the internet backbone. Others suggest that the accelerators overload web servers with prefetching and cache freshening behaviors. Many sites have banned the use of web accelerators due to these perceptions.

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