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A simple description of the three big stats when it comes to websites; Hits, page views and visits.
Imagine you have a web site with two pages, both pages containing text and 3 images.
If someone comes opens the home page, clicks to the second page and then leaves you will have;
- 1 visit
- 2 page views
- 8 Hits
They have visited the website and no matter how many pages they look at, it is one visit until the session is closed. Sessions are usually ended by the user closing the browser or clicking through to another website.
During that visit they viewed two pages, the home page as one and then the second page.
Each page records 4 hits, the 3 images plus the HTML page containing the images and text. The server has produced 4 files in total for the home page, but because they opened the second page that also contains 3 images and another HTML page, that adds another 4 hits.
Thank you for explaining this so simply! This was the best explanation I have read so far!!