page view

noun

variants or less commonly pageview

ˈpāj-ˌvyü 

plural page views also pageviews

: an instance of a user viewing an individual page on a website

The challenge of wringing profits from page views has eluded much of the industry, and the paper proved unable to end its losing streak.

—Jaclyn Peiser

Think it's tough to get the average Web site off the ground? Try facing antitrust legislation and Senate hearings before registering a single page view.

—Evan Ratliff

compare impression sense 6

Examples of page view in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Today, fanfic has moved online; one of the leading fanfic platforms, Archive of Our Own (AO3), hosts over 18 million works across more than 81,250 fandoms and averages over 125 million page views a day. — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2026

The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, with the dense text boxes barely readable in full-page view. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026

TexAgs’ media kit claims monthly web traffic of 400,000 unique site visitors and 32 million page views. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Several media chains and hedge funds than own newspapers now judge writers as much by their ability to sell the product (through subscriptions and page views) as the quality of their work. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1995, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for page view

• amadou
• avenue
• ballyhoo
• baraboo
• barbecue
• barbeque
• bugaboo
• cabildo
• caribou
• cockatoo
• detinue
• devalue