page view
noun
variants
or less commonly pageview
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
Jaclyn PeiserThink 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
Evan RatliffExamples of page view in a Sentence
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After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.
—PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
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
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PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for page view
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“Page view.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/page%20view. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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