Method and apparatus for storing and delivering documents on the internet

DETAILED DESCRIPTION A method to maintain statistics on a remote server.
The method includes receiving said statistics from each client device coupled to remote server, said statistics being associated with data on said remote server, said receiving being performed either when a user accesses said data on said remote server or when collected statistics associated with said data previously downloaded into a cache on said each client device is uploaded to said remote server from said each client device; updating said statistics on said remote server in response to either a user access of said data on said remote server or a receipt of said collected statistics from said each client device; and downloading said updated statistics to said each client device.
A method for improving user perceived response time when a client device requests data from a server on a network.
The method includes analyzing initial data requested from the server by one or more application programs running on the client device in order to identify references to various data on the server; assigning a weight to each said identified reference which represents a likelihood relative to the rest of said identified references that said various data identified by each said identified reference will be requested by an application program; and downloading said data identified by each said identified reference to the client device in anticipation of an actual request for the data by an application program, said downloading being performed for each said identified reference in order of decreasing weight, wherein the likelihood that said application program will request said various data is based on a user's past usage of said application program and statistics supplied by a content provider.