The World-Wide Web, or WWW, continues its remarkable and seemingly unregulated growth. This growth has seen a corresponding increase in latency experienced by users (user Web latency). Caching is one way to speed up Web accesses. However, since the Web is a place where users want to explore new information, traditional caching of old documents is of limited use. New techniques for the server must be found.
This thesis describes three server-based prefetching techniques to reduce WWW latency. These techniques capitalize on different locality of reference properties that are exhibited in the client access patern to the server. Our test results show that by using these techniques, the WWW latency can be reduced with limited increase in network traffic.