Current process queuing techniques on servers mean that processes take so long 

that clients simply disconnect

New technologies such as SSL, Java, Database transactions and middleware 

Media is also becoming rich with larger and more images and even voice and 

video being requested 

It also highlighted the response rate versus the HTTP GET rate plotted for a typical web 

server. As expected, when measured from an HTTP request perspective, the response rate 

grows linearly until the server nears maximum capacity as follows.

Figure 1: Graph illustrating Requests/sec Vs Responses/sec [4]