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26 Jul 12
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Eventually, we moved away from the term hit because everyone realized it was pretty meaningless. You see, a hit was often counted (depending on who was counting them) not just for a page load, but for every element (e.g., graphic) included on the page, as well
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Pageviews replaced hits as the primary traffic metric not just because they're
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more meaningful, but because it also determined how many ads
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could be served.
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Reach (number of unique visitors) is also important,
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So what's a better measurement? Good question. Like many good questions, the answer is "it depends." If you're talking about what's important to pay attention to on your own site, you have to determine what your primary success criteria are and measure that as best you can. For some sites, that could be subscribers, or paying users, or revenue, or widgets deployed, or files uploaded, or what have you. It may even be pageviews.
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If I had to pick one, in addition to unique visitors, I'd say time spent would be much more useful than pageviews.
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Michelle Battengood discussion on value of reach vs. pageviews vs. other points of access such as RSS and Widgets
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11 Nov 07
Adriana Lukasgood article about how metrics are only as important as the use you put them to. Attention is the scarce commodity everyone's competing and eyeballs are a poor measure of that. So having a dynamic site is more than just a fad these days... also, time i...
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Pelle StenStatistik är statistik, det vill säga otydlig och svårtolkad. Flera webbutvecklare har börjat ifrågasätta varför vi alltid ska mäta popularitet genom sidvisningar. Evan Williams, Odeo (fd Blogger), föreslår tid som en viktigare, men mer svårmä
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irwinchenExcellent analysis of how a good UI is antithetical to "pageviews" is bad for ad-supported business
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09 Sep 06
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Pageviews replaced hits
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hit was often counted (depending on who was counting them) not just for a page load, but for every element (e.g., graphic) included on the page
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Reach (number of unique visitors)
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part of the reason MySpace drives such an amazing number of pageviews is because their site design is so terrible.
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Pageviews were never a great measure of popularity. A simple javascript form validation can easily cut down on pageviews (and save users time), while a useless frameset can pump up your numbers. But with the proliferation of Ajax, RSS, and widgets, pageviews are even more silly to pay much attention toâeven as we're all obsessed with them.
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Mike StenhouseRemember when web site traffic was talked about in terms of "hits"? You'd read about how many millions of hits Netscape got per month and other sites bragged about getting 30,000 hits a day.
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Xavier BadosaRemember when web site traffic was talked about in terms of "hits"? You'd read about how many millions of hits Netscape got per month and other sites bragged about getting 30,000 hits a day. Eventually, we moved away from the term hit because everyone rea
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Tommaso BaldovinoPerchè le statistiche sulle pageviews sono inutili
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