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

The launch of the Hot Box Ashe wasn’t all that successful in her first year, relying on page views and fan club sign-ups. —Mark Dent, HubSpot, 26 Sep. 2025

The website receives about 770,000 page views each month from scientists working around the world on developing personalized therapies for rare cancers, modeling human neurodegenerative diseases and screening drug candidates for conditions like Alzheimer’s. —Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025

Far too many once-proud publications now measure success not in the quality and impact of their journalism but in the number of page views, but this isn’t really satirizing that. —Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025

However, page views for California homes are down. —Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2025

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