摘要 |
<p>The invention provides a method of optimising web page access and speeding up web page download through high-latency communications networks, such as mobile communications networks. When a user requests a web page, such page is retrieved from a web server and the image and non-image portions of the original web page are separated. Then, there are prepared (501, 502) an image-free web page including the non-image portions of the original page and having the images replaced by correspondingly sized and positioned placeholders, and an image page in which the non-image portions are made transparent and the original images are grouped into a single composite image, while keeping their positions and their sizes. The image-free page and the image page are superimposed (505, 506) to form an optimised web page, having the same appearance as the original one, which is downloaded to the user.</p> |