DEFINITION OF TERMS

Apache or Apache Web Server - is an established standard in the online distribution of website services, which gave the initial boost for the expansion of the World Wide Web. It is an open-source web server platform, which guarantees the online availability of the majority of the websites active today. The server is aimed at serving a great deal of widely popular modern web platforms/operating systems such as Unix, Windows, Linux, Solaris, Novell NetWare, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, etc.

Embedded Objects - An object created with one application and embedded into

a document created by another application. Embedding the object, rather than simply inserting or pasting it, ensures that the object retains its original format. In fact, you can modify the embedded object with the original program. In Windows environments, embedding objects is made possible by a technology called OLE.

Flash - A file format for delivering interactive vector graphics and animation on the World-Wide Web, developed by Macromedia.

Hardware - comprehensive term for all of the physical parts of a computer, as distinguished from the data it contains or operates on, and the software that provides instructions for the hardware to accomplish tasks. The boundary between hardware and software is slightly blurry - firmware is software that is "built-in" to the hardware, but

such firmware is usually the province of computer programmers and computer engineers in any case and not an issue that computer users need to concern themselves with.

HTML or Hypertext Markup Language - a markup language that is used to create documents on the World Wide Web incorporating text, graphics, sound, video, and hyperlinks

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor - allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP applications are normally found on Linux servers and in conjunction with MySQL databases. It provides those servers with functionality similar to that provided to the Windows platform by Active Server Pages technology.

Website - a group of World Wide Web pages usually containing hyperlinks to each other and made available online by an individual, company, educational institution, government, or organization

Web Page Response Time

Computer system: (1) When applied to a a user-command and the receipt of

complete system,

the

interval

between

an action, result, or feedback from the system. It is expressed as the sum of (a) transmission time of the command to the computer, (b) processing time at the CPU,

(c) access time to obtain required data from a storage device, and (d) transmission time of the result back to the user. Also called time to user. (2) When applied to a system component (such as a hard drive), the time taken to react to a system request or a given input. 2. Internet: Time taken by a website server to respond to a user's or visitor's request.

Lines of Code - The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when

creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. In a high-level language such as C++ or Java, one line of code may generate a series of assembly language instructions, resulting in multiple machine instructions.