For a satellite-based transmission of an HTML application accessible from an initial site, there is provided at the level of an intermediate platform hardware and software means making it possible on the basis of a semantic and syntactic analysis of the application to group together into transmission modules pages of like depth of the application and included components, if any, in these pages. The modules containing the low depth pages are transmitted with a greater frequency than the pages of greater depth.In this way a user more quickly receives all the information necessary for the displaying of a page.