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Goel et al.’s crawler (Jawa) removes some non-deterministic JavaScript code so that the replay of an archived web page does not change if different users replay it. Removing this code resulted in storage savings of 41% and improved the crawling throughput by 39%.

While working on the Saving Ads project, we encountered similar problems that involved JavaScript code generating URLs with random values that differed during crawl time and replay time. A Google SafeFrame URL is an example where a random value in the URL caused a replay problem.

When non-determinism causes variance in resources’ URLs it results in failed requests, which prevents resources from loading. Goel et al. matched a requested URL with a crawled URL by removing the query string (querystrip) and using Levenshtein distance (fuzzy matching).

Sources of non-determinism identified by Goel et al:.> Server-side state.> Client-side state.> Client characteristics.> JavaScript's Date, Random, and Performance APIs.

In this blog post, I summarized Goel et al.’s "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript". They identified sources of non-determinism that cause replay problems and created a crawler that removes non-deterministic code. #WebArchiveWednesday @WebSciDL.

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