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 Hurricane Irma may go down as the first hurricane to truly go viral. Between Sept. 1 and 30, when both Irma and Maria swirled across the tropics, the National Hurricane Center website recorded over 500 million page views resulting in 9 billion hits. —

Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024 For example, in the digital advertising world, through careful monitoring of metrics like CPM, click-through rate (CTR), conversion rate into sales, conversion rate from clicks to landing page views and low-funnel conversion, your company can unearth valuable insights. —

Aleks Farseev, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 Playing the search-engine-optimization game—racing to get an article within the first page of Google results—insured that your Web site got page views. —

Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024 The level of traffic being brought in by the cold weather event was about 10x the usual level of daily traffic, peaking at about 230,000 page views to about 120,000 unique visitors on January 13. —

Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024 The peak day was January 13, with about 230,000 page views to 120,000 visitors. —

Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024 Climbing up the funnel, assess the conversion rate from click to landing page view. —

Aleks Farseev, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023 There are no shortage of year-end lists that employ metrics — unique visitors, page views, minutes spent — to measure the most popular stories of the year. —

Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023 Our audience, on the other hand, started off big and quickly got bigger, reaching more than ten million page views a month in the first year. —

Anna Holmes, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023

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