How much do you use the web?

In an average day, how many web requests do you think you make? 100? 200? 1000? One thousand web requests in a single day may sound like a lot. That is until you remember that a visit to a single web page, can actually result in literally hundreds of web requests. It's a good reminder and one that Zscaler provided in this recent blog article. As the author, Mike Geide mentions, a single visit to cnn.com results in 127 separate web requests.

Today, web pages are much more complicated and most are a "mash-up" of multiple sites. No web security company wants to block you from getting the important data you might want to see from cnn.com, but with 127 separate web transactions, the likelihood one of them may lead you to malware or spyware, is fairly significant. It's the reason why you want to make sure the web security solution, whether it's a secure web gateway or web proxy, can block embedded URLs and not just URLs at a top level. That way only the offending embedded web request gets blocked, and not your entire session to a site like cnn.com

So how many web requests do you make a day? According to Geide, the average per user per day is around 3343 web requests per day.