Pageview Explained

In web analytics and website management, a pageview or page view, abbreviated in business to PV and occasionally called page impression, is a request to load a single HTML file (web page) of an Internet site.[1] On the World Wide Web, a page request would result from a web surfer clicking on a link on another page pointing to the page in question.

In contrast, a hit refers to a request for any file from a web server. Therefore, there may be many hits per page view since an HTML page can contain multiple files such as images, videos, JavaScripts, cascading style sheets (CSS), etc.

On balance, page views refer to a number of pages viewed or clicked on the site during the given time.[2]

Page views may be counted as part of web analytics. For the owner of the site, this information can be useful to see if any change in the "page" (such as the information or the way it is presented) results in more visits. If there are any advertisements on the page, the publishers would also be interested in the number of page views to determine their expected revenue from the ads. For this reason, it is a term that is used widely for Internet marketing and advertising.[3]

Feature

The page impression has long been a measure of user activity on a website. However, the activity is not necessarily associated with loading a complete HTML page. Modern programming techniques can serve pages by other means that don't show as HTTP requests.

Advertisement

Since page views help estimate the popularity of sites, it helps determine their value for advertising revenue. The most common metric is CPM. It stands for 'Cost per thousand'(the M is the Roman numeral for 1,000)[4] and it is commonly used metrics to measure page views divided by the thousands, that is, cost per 1000 views, used for the ad rates and thus, the less CPM is, the better deal it offers to advertisers.[5] However, there has been a growing concern that CPM is not as trustworthy as it looks in the advertising market because, although, with CPM arrangement, everyone who visits a site makes publishers’ money, for an advertiser's view, CPM is being challenged in comparison to CPC or CPA in terms of adverts’ efficiency because visiting does not mean clicking the ads.[6]

Measurement

The preferred way to count page views is using a web analytics software. They can measure the number of pages on any site and therefore, it helps people to receive a rough estimate of page views on web sites.[7] There are also many other page view measurement tools available including open source ones as well as licensed products.

Hit ratio

Hit ratio refers to the percentage of computer memory accesses (number of HTTPS requests delivered per requests received) that are found in certain levels of the memory hierarchy. In other words, it is a measure of content requests that a web caching system can deliver successfully from its cache storage, compared to how many requests it receives.[8] [9] There are two types of hit ratios:

Criticism and concerns

Despite a wide range of uses of page view, it has come in for criticisms.

Manipulation

See also: Internet manipulation. Page view can be manipulated or boosted for specific purposes.[12] For example, a recent incident, called 'page view fraud', compromised the accuracy of measurement of page view by boosting the page view. Perpetrators used a tool called 'a bot' to buy fake page-views for attention, recognition, and feedback, increasing the site's value.[13] As a result, some people already started building alternatives to measure audiences, such as "Ophan", saying that the page view is becoming passe.[14]

Humans vs. machines

Fake page views can reflect bots instead of humans.[15]

Wikipedia pageviews

Wikipedia provides tools that allow one to see how many people have visited a Wikipedia article during a given time period. Such have been used for tools that for instance display the most popular articles of the day.[16] Wikipedia pageviews of certain types of articles correlate with changes in stock market prices,[17] box office success of movies,[18] spread of disease[19] [20] among other applications of datamining. Since search engines directly influence what is popular on Wikipedia such statistics may provide a more unfiltered and real-time view into what people are searching for on the Web[21] and societal interests.[22] For instance they can be used to gain insights into public anxiety and information seeking after or during events[23] or for the identification of concepts with significant increase of interest from the public.[24] In 2015, a study conducted by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) examined the influence of Reddit posts on Wikipedia pageviews.[25]

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Doyle, C.. 2011. A dictionary of marketing. Oxford. Oxford University Press. 9780191727962.
  2. Web site: Carey. E.. 2012. Page View versus Page Visits - Atlantic Webworks Perspectives. Atlanticwebworks. 28 October 2014. 30 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141030184447/https://www.atlanticwebworks.com/blog/page-view-versus-page-visits/. live.
  3. Web site: Bennett. L.. January 10, 2012. Metrics that Matter & the Death of the Page View. Chartbeat Blog. 10 January 2012. 13 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120113070158/https://blog.chartbeat.com/2012/01/10/metrics-that-matter-and-death-of-the-page-view/. live.
  4. Web site: Heisel, C.. November 30, 2008. What does CPM stand for?. Chris Heisel. 30 October 2014. 19 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141019232053/https://chrisheisel.com/2008/11/30/what-does-cpm-mean/. live.
  5. Web site: Scocco, D.. March 27, 2008. How Much Should I Charge for my Advertising Space? : @ProBlogger. Problogger.net. 30 October 2014. 30 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141030174902/https://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/03/27/how-much-should-i-charge-for-my-advertising-space/. live.
  6. Web site: Johnston, M.. 2013. CPM vs CPC vs CPA: How to Sell Display Ads. Monetizepros.com. 30 October 2014. 7 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141107215330/https://monetizepros.com/blog/2013/how-to-sell-display-ads-cpm-vs-cpc-vs-cpa/. live.
  7. Web site: Agarwal, A.. 2008. Measure the Number of Page Views on any Site. Digital Inspiration. 30 October 2014. 30 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141030181632/https://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/measure-page-views-of-websites/5252/. dead.
  8. Web site: What is Cache Hit Ratio?. 1 February 2022. www.stackpath.com. 24 May 2021 . english. 1 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220201174813/https://www.stackpath.com/edge-academy/what-is-cache-hit-ratio. live.
  9. Web site: McKinnon. Jenni. 2 July 2019. Hit and Miss Ratios, and how to calculate them. 2022-02-01. WP Rocket. 2022-02-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20220201174812/https://wp-rocket.me/blog/calculate-hit-and-miss-ratios/. live.
  10. Book: Wessels, Duane . Web Caching . June 2001 . O'Reilly Media, Inc. . 978-1-56592-536-6 . 193–200 . 1100903884.
  11. Web site: July 2001 . Hit Ratios - Web Caching [Book] ]. 12 March 2022 . www.oreilly.com.
  12. Web site: Holiday, R.. 2012. What is Media Manipulation?—A Definition and Explanation. Forbes. 30 October 2014. 30 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141030220312/https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanholiday/2012/07/16/what-is-media-manipulation-a-definition-and-explanation/. live.
  13. Web site: Seidel, L.. 2014. The Pageview Fraud, PLEASE READ! by Lilyas on deviantART. Lilyas.deviantart.com. 30 October 2014. 11 November 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141111020731/https://lilyas.deviantart.com/journal/The-Pageview-Fraud-PLEASE-READ-220928240. live.
  14. Web site: Fischer, M.. March 18, 2014. The Pageview is Passé: New Metrics Emerge to Measure Audiences. American Journalism Review. 30 October 2014. 30 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141030190913/https://ajr.org/2014/03/18/pageview-passe-new-metrics-emerge-measure-audiences/. live.
  15. Web site: No more fake page views from machines! Google Analytics introduces "bot-filtering" . The Hub . July 31, 2014 . August 20, 2016 . Akhtar, Omar . February 20, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190220063112/https://www.dmnews.com/channel-marketing/social/news/13057066/no-more-fake-page-views-from-machines-google-analytics-introduces-botfiltering . live .
  16. Web site: Making our pageview data easily accessible – Wikimedia Blog. Wikimedia Blog. 14 December 2015. 30 April 2017. 11 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170411115111/https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/14/pageview-data-easily-accessible/. live.
  17. Moat. Helen Susannah. Curme. Chester. Avakian. Adam. Kenett. Dror Y.. Stanley. H. Eugene. Preis. Tobias. Quantifying Wikipedia Usage Patterns Before Stock Market Moves. Scientific Reports. 8 May 2013. 3. 1801. 10.1038/srep01801. 2045-2322. 3647164. 2013NatSR...3E1801M.
  18. Mestyán. Márton. Yasseri. Taha. Kertész. János. Early Prediction of Movie Box Office Success Based on Wikipedia Activity Big Data. PLOS ONE. 21 August 2013. 8. 8. e71226. 10.1371/journal.pone.0071226. 23990938. 3749192. 1211.0970. 2013PLoSO...871226M. 1932-6203. free.
  19. R.. Laurent, Michaël. J.. Vickers, Tim. Seeking Health Information Online: Does Wikipedia Matter?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 1 July 2009. 16. 4. 10.1197/jamia.M3059. 19390105. en. 1067-5027. 471–479. 2705249.
  20. McIver. David J.. Brownstein. John S.. Wikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of Influenza-Like Illness in the United States in Near Real-Time. PLOS Computational Biology. 17 April 2014. 10. 4. e1003581. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581. 24743682. 3990502. 2014PLSCB..10E3581M. 1553-7358 . free .
  21. Spoerri. Anselm. What is popular on Wikipedia and why?. First Monday. 2 April 2007. 12. 4. 30 April 2017. 10.5210/fm.v12i4.1765. 5 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170505045715/https://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1765/1645. live . free.
  22. Huss. Jon W.. Lindenbaum. Pierre. Martone. Michael. Roberts. Donabel. Pizarro. Angel. Valafar. Faramarz. Hogenesch. John B.. Su. Andrew I.. The Gene Wiki: community intelligence applied to human gene annotation. Nucleic Acids Research. 1 January 2010. 38. suppl_1. D633–D639. 10.1093/nar/gkp760. 19755503. 2808918. en. 0305-1048.
  23. Tausczik. Yla. Faasse. Kate. Pennebaker. James W.. Petrie. Keith J.. Public Anxiety and Information Seeking Following the H1N1 Outbreak: Blogs, Newspaper Articles, and Wikipedia Visits. Health Communication. 1 February 2012. 27. 2. 179–185. 10.1080/10410236.2011.571759. 21827326. 3783651. 1041-0236.
  24. Book: Ciglan. Marek. Nørv\a ag. Kjetil. Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management . WikiPop . 1 January 2010. 1931–1932. 10.1145/1871437.1871769. 9781450300995. 15890386.
  25. Determining the influence of reddit posts on wikipedia pageviews, AAAI Workshop - Technical Report, 2015, WS-15-19 pp. 75 - 82. 11 May 2020. 6 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200806012029/https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM15/paper/view/10655. dead.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Pageview".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.