Analyzing the role of CDNs in web traffic

This work was part of the lecture Internet Traffic, Performance and Content Distribution at Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart in summer term 2024.

Important files

• Analyzing_the_role_of_CDNs_in_web_traffic.pdf The paper
• Analysis.ipynb The analysis as Jupyter Notebook
• Analysis.html The analysis as HTML
• requests_28_06_2024.csv The most up do date requests record
• 202405.csv The CrUX dataset from may 2024

Python commands

Python virtual environemnt

https://python.land/virtual-environments/virtualenv

Create:

python3 -m venv venv

Use:

source venv/bin/activate

Deactivate:

deactivate

Delete:

rm -r venv

Requirements

https://python.land/virtual-environments/installing-packages-with-pip

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set requirements:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Steps to start Jupyter Notebook

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install jupyter
ipython kernel install --user --name=venv
jupyter notebook