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
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

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Later that year, the Wikimedia Foundation said that the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year between March and August 2025. Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026 IMDBPro bases its Top 100 most-popular list on the page views of the more than 250 million monthly visitors to IMDb worldwide. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 Mar. 2026 In the video, which has racked up more than 20 million page views and gotten over 8,000 comments, Davis takes viewers through the process of cooking the iguana meat. Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, our Olympics team put together the absolute best single-page view for knowing what’s coming up every day. Dan Shanoff, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for page view

Word History

First Known Use

1995, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of page view was in 1995

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“Page view.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/page%20view. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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