Patent Publication Number: US-10762159-B2

Title: Method and system for increasing page loading rate

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     This application is a national stage filing under 35 U.S.C. 371 of International Application No. PCT/CN2016/070400 filed Jan. 7, 2016, which claims the foreign priority benefit of Chinese Patent Application No. 201510015200.9 filed Jan. 12, 2015, which are incorporated by reference herein in their entireties. 
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     The present invention relates to the Internet technology field, and particularly to a method and system for increasing a page loading rate. 
     BACKGROUND ART 
     In the present network environment, a HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) page accessed by a user may not change for a long time, so the page may be processed with the page staticize technology to increase the page loading rate. 
     In the page staticize technology, a page rendered dynamically by an application server is cached to a hard disk of a Web (Internet) server, and the page cached in the hard disk is read directly by the application server without need in being rendered when the user requests to access the page. 
     At present, based on the page staticize technology, the main process of a user accessing a page is shown as in  FIG. 1 : 
     At Step S 101 , a CDN (Content Delivery Network) cluster receives a page access request sent by a user; 
     At step S 102 , the CDN cluster determines whether or not a page corresponding to the page access request is cached. If so, the process proceeds to Step S 108 ; and if not, the process proceeds to Step S 103 ; 
     At Step S 103 , the CDN cluster forwards the page access request to a Web server; 
     At Step S 104 , the Web server receives the page access request, determines whether or not a page corresponding to the page access request is cached in a hard disk. If so, the process proceeds to Step S 108 ; and if not, the process proceeds to Step S 105 ; 
     At Step S 105 , the Web server forwards the page access request to the application server, the application server performs multi-threaded rendering on the page corresponding to the page access request, and returns the rendered page to the Web server; 
     At step S 106 , the Web server caches the rendered page on the hard disk and sends the rendered page to the CDN cluster; 
     At step S 107 , the CDN cluster receives the rendered page and caches it; 
     At step S 108 , the CDN cluster returns the rendered page to a browser, and the browser parses the rendered page. 
     The present application server renders the entire page via a thread pool. But when the number of the page access requests exceeds the maximum of the thread pool, a rendering task that is not allocated with thread resources will be blocked so that the page cannot be loaded or the loading time times out, and the user experience is very poor. 
     SUMMARY OF INVENTION 
     The present invention provides a method and system for increasing a page loading speed in the embodiments to realize asynchronous rendering of the page framework and the page module, thereby reducing the page loading rate. 
     On one hand, the embodiments of the present invention provide a method for increasing a page loading rate, comprising: 
     a Content Delivery Network receiving a page framework request sent by a browser, and launching the page framework request to a server; 
     the server rendering a page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network; 
     the browser parsing the rendered page framework to obtain a page module identifier, and launching a page module request including the page module identifier to the server by means of the Content Delivery Network; 
     the server rendering a page module on the basis of the page module request, and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network; and 
     the Content Delivery Network populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page on the basis of the page module identifier, and sending the page to the browser. 
     Preferably, the Content Delivery Network receiving a page framework request sent by a browser, and launching the page framework request to a server specifically comprises: 
     the Content Delivery Network receiving the page framework request, determining whether or not a rendered page framework is cached, and if not, sending the page framework request to the server. 
     Preferably, the server rendering a page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network, specifically comprises: 
     an Internet server receiving the page framework request sent by the Content Delivery Network, determining whether or not a rendered page framework is cached, and if not, sending the page framework request to an application server; 
     the application server rendering the page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the Internet server; and 
     the Internet server receiving the rendered page framework, caching the rendered page framework in a memory, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. 
     Preferably, the sending the rendered page framework to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network comprises: 
     the Internet server sending the rendered page framework to the Content Delivery Network, the Content Delivery Network receiving the rendered page framework, caching the rendered page framework, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser. 
     Preferably, the launching a page module request including the page module identifier to the server by means of the Content Delivery Network specifically comprises: 
     the browser sending the page module request to the Content Delivery Network; and 
     the Content Delivery Network receiving the page module request, determining whether or not a rendered page module is cached, and if not, sending the page module request to the server. 
     Preferably, the server rendering a page module on the basis of the page module request, and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network specifically comprises: 
     an Internet server receiving the page module request, determining whether or not the rendered page framework request needs to be cached, if not, sending the page module request to an application server; if so, determining whether or not the rendered page module is cached, and if not, sending the page module request to the application server; 
     the application server rendering the page module on the basis of the page module request, caching the rendered page module in a memory, and sending the rendered page module to the Internet server; and 
     the Internet server receiving the rendered page module, caching the rendered page module in a memory, and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network. 
     Preferably, the Content Delivery Network populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page on the basis of the page module identifier, and sending the page to the browser, specifically comprises: 
     the Content Delivery Network determining whether or not a process of the server rendering a page module times out, if not, populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page, and sending the page to the browser. 
     On the other hand, the embodiments of the present invention provide system for increasing a page loading rate, characterized in comprising: 
     a Content Delivery Network, a server and a browser, 
     the Content Delivery Network being used for receiving a page framework request sent by the browser, and launching the page framework request to the server; 
     the server being used for rendering a page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network, 
     the browser being used for parsing the rendered page framework to obtain a page module identifier, and launching a page module request including the page module identifier to the server by means of the Content Delivery Network, and the server being used for rendering a page module on the basis of the page module request and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network; and 
     the Content Delivery Network being used for populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page on the basis of the page module identifier, and sending the page to the browser. 
     Preferably, the Content Delivery Network is specifically used for receiving the page framework request, determining whether or not a rendered page framework is cached, and if not, sending the page framework request to the server. 
     Preferably, the server includes an Internet server and an application server, 
     the Internet server being used for receiving the page framework request sent by the Content Delivery Network, determining whether or not a rendered page framework is cached, and if not, sending the page framework request to the application server; 
     the application server being used for rendering the page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the Internet server; and 
     the Internet server being used for receiving the rendered page framework, caching the rendered page framework in a memory, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. 
     Preferably, the Content Delivery Network is specifically used for receiving the rendered page framework sent by the Internet server, caching the rendered page framework, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser. 
     Preferably, the browser is used for sending the page module request to the Content Delivery Network; and 
     the Content Delivery Network is specifically used for receiving the page module request, determining whether or not the rendered page module is cached, and if not, sending the page module request to the server. 
     Preferably, the Internet server is used for receiving the page module request, determining whether or not the rendered page framework request needs to be cached, and if not, sending the page module request to the server, if so, determining whether or not the rendered page module is cached, and if not, sending the page module request to the application server; 
     the application server is used for rendering the page module on the basis of the page module request, caching the rendered page module in the memory, and sending the rendered page module to the Internet server; and 
     the Internet server is used for receiving the rendered page module, caching the rendered page module in the memory, and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network. 
     Preferably, the Content Delivery Network is specifically used for determining whether or not process of the server rendering a page module times out, and if not, populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page, and sending the page to the browser. 
     The invention provides a method and system for increasing a page loading rate in the embodiments. In a method for increasing a page loading rate provided by the invention in the embodiments, by means of rendering the page frame and the page module asynchronously, the page rendering request is distributed, the module rendering speed is speeded up, and the page loading rate is increased. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS 
       In order to illustrate the technical solution in the embodiments of the present application more clearly, the drawings to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings described in the following are merely some embodiments, and other drawings may be obtained by those skilled in the art without inventive efforts. 
         FIG. 1  is a flow diagram of a user accessing a page in the prior art. 
         FIG. 2  is a flow diagram of a method for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 3  is a flow diagram of a method for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 4  is a schematic diagram of a system for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 5  is an application deployment diagram of a system for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the present invention. 
         FIG. 6  is an application deployment diagram of a system for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION 
     The invention will now be described in further details with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for the purpose of explaining the invention only and not intended to limit the invention. It is to be noted that, only the parts related to the present invention rather than the entire structure are shown in the drawings for the sake of convenience of description. 
     Embodiment 1 
     The embodiment of the invention provides a method for increasing a page loading rate. The method is applicable to the case of loading a page. As shown in  FIG. 2 , the method specifically comprises: 
     Step S 201  of a Content Delivery Network receiving a page framework request sent by a browser, and launching the page framework request to a server; 
     At Step S 201 , the web development technology of an interactive web application created based on Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) can realize asynchronous page updates. That is, a page framework may be rendered followed by rendering a page module, and then combine the rendered page framework and the rendered page module into a page. Thus, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can receive a page framework request sent by a browser. The Content Delivery Network can determine whether or not a rendered page framework is cached, if so, the rendered page framework may be sent directly to the browser to realize rapid response to the page framework request, in order to improve the page loading rate; if not, the page framework request may be launched to the server to obtain the rendered page framework. 
     Step S 202  of the server rendering a page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. 
     At Step S 202 , the server receives the page framework request sent by the Content Delivery Network, and can determine whether or not the rendered page framework is cached in a local Redis (distributed storage system) cluster. If so, the cached rendered page framework may be sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network; if not, the page framework may be rendered, and the rendered framework is sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. Besides, the rendered page framework may be cached in the local Redis cluster. Compared to caching a rendered page in a hard disk in the prior art, caching a rendered page framework in the local Redis cluster makes the access speed be improved, maintenance easy, and it possible to delete dynamically the cached contents from the server according to the service needs to ensure a front-end real-time browse and data consistency to save storage space. 
     For example, the rendered page framework is shown as follows: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
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                 &lt;div class=”j_lazy_loading”moduleInstanceId=”10001” 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 area=”head” origin=”0”templateId=”1” prototype=”1”&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 &lt;div class=”j_lazy_loading”moduleInstanceId=”10002” 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 area=”body” origin=”1”templateId=”2” prototype=”2”&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 &lt;div 
                 class=”j_lazy_loading”moduleInstanceId=”10003” 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 area=”footer” origin=”0”templateId=”3” prototype=”3”&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
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                 &lt;/html&gt; 
               
               
                   
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     Step S 203  of the browser parsing the rendered page framework to obtain a page module identifier, and launching a page module request including the page module identifier to the server by means of the Content Delivery Network. 
     At Step S 203 , the rendered page framework can be a page framework with a DOM (Document Object Model) structure. The browser can use a JavaScript engine to parse the rendered page framework to obtain a page module identifier. The page module identifier may identify the location of the page module in the page framework and is the basis for populating the page module into the page framework. The browser can send the same number of page module requests based on the number of page modules. 
     Step S 204  of the server rendering a page module on the basis of the page module request, and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network. 
     At Step S 204 , the server receives the page module request sent by the Content Delivery Network, and can determine whether or not the rendered page module is cached in the local Redis cluster. If so, the cached rendered page module may be sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. If not, the page module may be rendered, and the rendered page module is sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. Besides, the rendered page module may be cached to the local Redis cluster. 
     Step S 205  of the Content Delivery Network populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page on the basis of the page module identifier, and sending the page to the browser. 
     At Step S 205 , the Content Delivery Network populates the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page of a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) structure on the basis of the page module identifier. 
     For example, an instance of the JSON structure is shown as follows: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
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                 “result”:true,//identifying whether or not the module rendering is 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 successful 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 “moduleText”:”&lt;div&gt;.....&lt;/div&gt;”,//the module content HTML 
               
               
                   
                 “moduleInstanceId”:”10001”//the module identifier for retrieving the 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 location of the module in the page 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
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     In the method for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the invention, by means of rendering the page framework and the page module asynchronously, the page rendering request is distributed, the module rendering speed is speeded up, and the page loading rate is increased. 
     Embodiment 2 
     The embodiment of the invention provides a method for increasing a page loading rate. The method is applicable to the case of loading a page, and is based on a server including a Web (Internet) server and an application server. As shown in  FIG. 3 , the method specifically comprises: 
     Step S 301  of a Content Delivery Network (CDN) receiving a page framework request. 
     Step S 302  of the Content Delivery Network determining whether or not a page framework is cached, and if not, proceeding to Step S 303 , if so, proceeding to Step S 308 . 
     Step S 303  of the Content Distribution Network sending a page framework request to the Internet, and an Internet (Web) server receiving the page framework request sent by the Content Delivery Network. 
     At Step S 303 , the Internet server is preferably a Nginx (a lightweight Web server/reverse proxy server and an e-mail proxy server), and if the page framework request conforms to the Nginx matching rule after the Nginx accepts the page framework request, the process proceeds to Step S 304 . 
     Step S 304  of the Internet server determining whether or not the rendered page framework is cached, and if so, proceeding to Step S 308 , if not, proceeding to Step S 305 . 
     At Step S 304 , the Internet server may determine whether or not the rendered page framework is cached with the Lua scripting language. 
     Step S 305  of the Internet server sending the page framework request to the application server, the application server rendering the page framework according to the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the Internet server. 
     At Step S 305 , the application server may be an instance of a Tomcat (a free open source Web application server). 
     Step S 306  of the Internet server receiving the rendered page framework, caching the rendered page framework in a memory, and sending the rendered page framework to the Content Delivery Network. 
     Step S 307  of the Content Delivery Network receiving the rendered page framework, and caching the rendered page framework in a memory. 
     Step S 308  of sending the rendered page framework to the browser. 
     Step S 309  of the browser parsing the rendered page framework to obtain a page module identifier, and the browser sending the page module request to the Content Delivery Network. 
     Step S 310  of the Content Delivery Network receiving the page module request, determining whether or not the rendered page module is cached, and if so, proceeding to Step S 318 , if not, proceeding to Step S 311 . 
     Step S 311  of the Content Delivery Network sending the page module request to the Internet server. 
     Step S 312  of the Internet server receiving the page module request, determining whether or not the rendered page framework request needs to be cached, and if not, proceeding to Step S 314 , if so, proceeding to Step S 313 . 
     At Step S 312 , some of the page modules need to be rendered in real time, such as a search module, then the search module does not need to be cached; some of the page modules do not need to be rendered in real time, such as a date module, then the date module does not need to be cached. 
     Step S 313  of the Internet server determining whether or not the rendered page module is cached, and if so, sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network, or if not, proceeding to Step S 314 . 
     Step S 314  of the Internet server sending the page module request to the application server, the application server rendering the page module on the basis of the page module request, and caching the page module in the memory. 
     Step S 315  of sending the rendered page module to the Internet server. 
     Step S 316  of the Internet server receiving the rendered page module, caching the rendered page module in the memory, and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network. 
     Step S 317  of the Content Delivery Network determining whether or not a process of the server rendering a page times out, and if not, proceeding to step S 318 , if so, ending the page module request. 
     Step S 318  of populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page framework, and sending the page to the browser. 
     In the method for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the present invention, by means of rendering the page framework and the page module asynchronously, the page rendering request is distributed, the module rendering speed is speeded up, and the page loading rate is increased. 
     Embodiment 3 
     The embodiment of the invention provides a system for increasing a page loading rate as shown in  FIG. 4 , the system comprises: a Content Delivery Network  41 , a server  42  and a browser  43 . 
     Wherein the Content Delivery Network  41  is used for receiving a page framework request sent by the browser, and launching the page framework request to the server; the server  42  is used for rendering a page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser  43  by means of the Content Delivery Network; the browser  43  is used for parsing the rendered page framework to obtain a page module identifier, and launching a page module request including the page module identifier to the server  42  by means of the Content Delivery Network, then the server  42  is used for rendering a page module on the basis of the page module request and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network; and the Content Delivery Network  41  is used for populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page on the basis of the page module identifier, and sending the page to the browser  43 . 
     In the Content Delivery Network  41 , asynchronous page updates may be realized based on Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML), that is a web development technology of creating an interactive web application. That is, a page framework may be rendered followed by rendering a page module, and then combine the rendered page framework and the rendered page module into a page. Thus, a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can receive a page framework request sent by a browser. The Content Delivery Network can determine whether or not a rendered page framework is cached, if so, the rendered page framework may be sent directly to the browser to realize rapid response to the page framework request to improve the page loading rate; if not, the page framework request may be launched to the server to obtain the rendered page framework. 
     The server  42  can receive the page framework request sent by the Content Delivery Network, and can determine whether or not the rendered page framework is cached in a local Redis cluster. If so, the cached rendered page framework may be sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network; if not, the page framework may be rendered, and the rendered framework is sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. Besides, the rendered page framework may be cached in the local Redis cluster. Compared to caching a rendered page in a hard disk in the prior art, the access speed is improved, maintenance is easier, and it is possible to delete dynamically the cached contents from the server according to the service needs to ensure a front-end real-time browse and data consistency to save storage space. 
     In the browser  43 , the rendered page framework can be a page framework with a DOM (Document Object Model) structure. The browser can use a JavaScript engine to parse the rendered page framework to obtain a page module identifier. The page module identifier may identify the location of the page module in the page framework and is the basis for populating the page module into the page framework. The browser can send the same number of page module requests based on the number of page modules. 
     The server  42  can further receive the page module request sent by the Content Delivery Network, and can determine whether or not the rendered page module is cached in the local Redis cluster. If so, the cached rendered page module may be sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. If not, the page module may be rendered, and the rendered page module is sent to the browser by means of the Content Delivery Network. Besides, the rendered page module may be cached to the local Redis cluster. 
     The Content Delivery Network  41  can further populate the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page of a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) structure on the basis of the page module identifier. 
     In the method for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the invention, by means of rendering the page framework and the page module asynchronously, the page rendering request is distributed, the module rendering speed is speeded up, and the page loading rate is increased. 
     Embodiment 4 
     The embodiment of the invention provides a system for increasing a page loading rate, preferably, the server includes an Internet server and an application server. As shown in  FIGS. 5 and 6 , the system comprises: a Content Delivery Network  61 , an Internet server  62 , an application server  63 , and a browser  64 . 
     The Content Delivery Network  61  is specifically used for receiving the page framework request, determining whether or not a page framework is cached, and if not, sending the page framework request to the server, if so, sending the page framework to the browser  64 . 
     The Internet server  62  is used for receiving the page framework request sent by the Content Delivery Network  61 , determining whether or not a rendered page framework is cached, and if so, sending the rendered page framework to the browser  64 , if not, sending the page framework request to the application server  63 . 
     The application server  63  is used for rendering the page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the rendered page framework to the Internet server  64 . 
     Then the Internet server  62  is used for receiving the rendered page framework, caching the rendered page framework in a memory, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser  64  by means of the Content Delivery Network  61 . 
     The Content Delivery Network  61  is specifically used for receiving the rendered page framework sent by the Internet server, caching the rendered page framework, and sending the rendered page framework to the browser  64 . 
     The browser  64  is used for sending the page module request to the Content Delivery Network  61 ; and 
     the Content Delivery Network  61  is specifically used for receiving the page module request, determining whether or not the rendered page module is cached, and if so, sending the rendered page module to the browser  64 , if not, sending the page module request to the server. 
     The Internet server  62  is used for receiving the page module request, determining whether or not the rendered page framework request needs to be cached, and if not, sending the page module request to the server  63 ; if so, determining whether or not the rendered page module is cached, and if so, sending the rendered page module to the server  63 , if not, sending the page module request to the application server  63 . 
     The application server  63  is used for rendering the page module on the basis of the page module request, caching the rendered page module in the memory, and sending the rendered page module to the Internet server  63 ; and 
     the Internet server  62  is used for receiving the rendered page module, caching the rendered page module in the memory, and sending the rendered page module to the Content Delivery Network  61 . 
     The Content Delivery Network  61  is specifically used for determining whether or not a process of the server rendering a page module times out, and if not, populating the rendered page module into the rendered page framework to form a page, and sending the page to the browser  64 ; if so, ending the page module request. 
     In the method for increasing a page loading rate provided in the embodiment of the invention, by means of rendering the page framework and the page module asynchronously, the page rendering request is distributed, the module rendering speed is speeded up, and the page loading rate is increased. 
     It is noted that above are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and the technical principles used. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described herein, and that various obvious changes, modifications and substitutions will be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the protection scope of the invention. Thus, although the present invention has been described in details by way of the above embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but may include more other equivalent embodiments without departing from the inventive concept. The scope of the present invention is determined by the scope of the appended claims.