Adaptive content balancing in a web application environment

A content delivery data processing system configured for adaptive content balancing for Web clients, the system comprising:

• a host computing system comprising one or more computers, each with memory and at least one processor;
• a content server executing in the memory of the host computing system;
• and,
• a content balancing module coupled to the content server, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the host computing system to monitor content processing performance in each different one of a multiplicity of different client computing devices communicatively coupled over a computer communications network to a content server executing in memory of a host computing system, the performance comprising both a time taken to render content received from the content server within a content browser for each respective one of the devices and also a time taken to compile computer program code within the received content in the content browser, to measure the content processing performance for each of the different client computing devices based upon the time taken for both rendering and compilation, and to store the measured content processing performance in the content server for each of the different client computing devices, to receive from one of the client computing devices from over the computer communications network, a request for content in the content server, and to respond to the request by retrieving from the content server performance metrics stored in connection with the one of the client computing devices, to match the retrieved performance metrics to one of a multiplicity of groupings of one or more different resources associated with the requested content, to include the resources of the one of the multiplicity of the groupings in the requested content, and to direct the content server to transmit the requested content to the one of the client computing devices.

A computer program product for adaptive content balancing for Web clients, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

• monitoring content processing performance in each different one of a multiplicity of different client computing devices communicatively coupled over a computer communications network to a content server executing in memory of a host computing system, the performance comprising both a time taken to render content received from the content server within a content browser for each respective one of the devices and also a time taken to compile computer program code within the received content in the content browser, measuring the content processing performance for each of the different client computing devices based upon the time taken for both rendering and compilation, and storing the measured content processing performance in the content server for each of the different client computing devices;
• receiving from one of the client computing devices from over the computer communications network, a request for content in the content server;
• retrieving from the content server performance metrics stored in connection with the one of the client computing devices;
• matching the retrieved performance metrics to one of a multiplicity of groupings of one or more different resources associated with the requested content;
• including the one or more different resources of the one of the multiplicity of the groupings in the requested content;
• and,
• transmitting the requested content to the one of the client computing devices.