11. The method of claim 1 wherein: the prefetcher comprises a prefetch model and wherein the prefetch model comprises a plurality of bins, each corresponding to a set of web object characteristics; and adjusting the first prefetch decision for the subset of the set of URLs based on the identifying of the reference comprises altering a characteristic associated with the reference that is one of the set of web object characteristics.
1. A method for selective prefetch scanning in a web client/server communications system connecting a web client and a web server, the method comprising: scanning a first response at a prefetcher; identifying, in the first response, a reference to a first section of a container object, wherein the container object includes a set of uniform resource locators (URLs) and the reference to the first section of the container object identifies a subset of the set of URLs; scanning a second response comprising the container object and the reference by a container object scanner of the web/client server communication system; determining whether the reference substantially matches one of a collection of recently applied references stored in an applied reference store communicatively coupled with the container object scanner; and when the reference substantially matches one of the stored collection of recently applied references, adjusting a first prefetch decision for the subset of the set of URLs.