System and method for ascertaining and displaying connection-related performance data in networks

摘要

The present invention describes a system and method for ascertaining and displaying connection-related performance data in networks, in particular in the application area of WWW applications, such as web browsers for example. It is based on the technical feasibility of expanding HTML documents retrospectively to include performance data, such as loading speed or time, and integrating these into the layout of the document referenced. In this process the performance data can be expanded in a proxy, which adds a loading speed or time to be expected to the document to be forwarded. However, functionality of this kind does not have to remain limited to this embodiment. Any supplementing of an HTML document with information of this kind (e.g. web browser) satisfies the fundamental idea of the present invention.