ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2026

Our group attended this year's ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), the flagship conference for Internet measurement and analysis. As Internet measurement is a core research focus of our group at the University of Kassel, we contributed a main-track paper, two posters, a keynote, and an invited talk across the main conference, its student workshop, and the co-located BGP Communities in the Wild workshop.

Adrian presented our main-track paper, "A Fresh Look at Website Complexity," co-authored with Lukas and Yasin. Revisiting website complexity after 15 years, we find that websites have grown more complex: third parties play a larger role, modern protocols are widely adopted, and JavaScript-heavy content has increased significantly. Traditional metrics alone cannot capture these changes, highlighting the need for browser-based measurements and user-centric performance metrics. Curious how the web has changed since 2011? Check out the paper.

Lukas presented the poster "Decoupling Lighthouse Gathering and Auditing to Increase Web Crawl Throughput and Analysis Flexibility" at the student workshop. This poster involved work done by Simon in his bachelor thesis. Lighthouse's tightly coupled collection and report-generation pipeline makes it hard to add new audits after a crawl. We show that separating data gathering from offline auditing adds only 1.33% median crawl time while letting researchers reuse collected artifacts for additional analyses without repeating large-scale crawl campaigns. Read the paper here.

Till presented the poster "RADAR: Interactive Exploration of 27 Billion PSKReporter Amateur Radio Reception Reports" at the student workshop, which is a result of his master thesis that he handed in this Wednesday. Amateur-radio reception reports offer a unique way to distinguish power outages from Internet connectivity loss. RADAR is a live platform for interactive querying and visualization of this data in near real time, giving researchers a new tool to study connectivity disruptions. Check out the paper.

Oliver gave the keynote at the IMC Student Workshop, "From Packets to Papers: The Untold Story of Writing IMC Papers." His key message: positioning your work and choosing the right problem matter as much as a strong implementation — something junior students often overlook.

Finally, Oliver gave an invited talk at the BGP Communities in the Wild workshop on using BGP Communities to tag routes with end-to-end latency information, enabling routers to select fast paths. The full system, LARS, was presented at SIGCOMM 2026.