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IPv4 and IPv6 are versions of the Internet Protocol (IP) used to transmit data on the Internet. The main difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is the number of IP addresses available.IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can therefore provide a maximum of 4.3 billion unique addresses. However, given...

The threads setting determines the number of concurrent threads or URL requests. As can also be seen from the delay setting, the Kitt cache crawleris probably the only cache warmup crawler that works in multithread mode and therefore requests URLs simultaneously and not serially, like...

Concurrent connections refers to the number of simultaneous connections between a client and a server. There is a limit to the number of simultaneous connections a server can handle before it slows down or even crashes. This limit is determined by factors such as available bandwidth, server...

The Network Timeout feature deals with the issue of waiting times. Since disruptions on the Internet are an integral part and can often occur uncontrolled, Kitt needs instructions onhow long to wait in the event of a disruption before aborting a request. The default value 10 should be...

Brotli is a data compression algorithm developed by Google and available since 2015. It was specially developed for compressing HTTP responses on the web and, compared to other algorithms such as Gzip or Deflate, offers a higher compression rate and thus faster data transmission. Compared to...

A cache warmup crawler is a tool used to warm up the cache of web applications before actual operation. This is an important process to ensure the application runs smoothly and minimize user loading times.The crawler visits and invokes all of the application's pages to ensure that the content...

Brotli Compression is usually better than Gzip Compression because it can achieve a higher degree of compression, resulting in smaller file sizes. Brotli was specially developed for web compression and is therefore better adapted to the needs of HTTP/HTTPS than Gzip, which was originally intended...

SPDY (pronounced: speedy) was a network protocol developed by Google to improve the speed of website loading. It was first published in 2009 and introduced as an experiment. The protocol was later refined and released in 2012 as SPDY 3.1.SPDY was developed to reduce webpage loading times by...

A WebSocket proxy is a server that acts as an intermediary between WebSocket clients and WebSocket servers. WebSocket is a protocol that enables bi-directional communication between a client and a server. A WebSocket proxy can be used to optimize the connection between the client and the server,...