pageview

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noun

An individual viewing of a web page by a user, often counted when measuring a web site's popularity.

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nounpageview (plural pageviews)

plural pageviews

  1. InternetAn individual viewing of a web page by a user, often counted when measuring a web site's popularity.

    Similarly, Trueman, Wong, and Zhang found that the nonfinancial measures of unique visitors and pageviews provide additional explanatory power for stock prices, especially for e-tailers like Amazon.com.

    2001, Robert G. Eccles, The ValueReporting revolution: moving beyond the earnings game, page 62
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    And you—you clueless, literate shmuck—are but a pawn in this game. So just let go. Just accept the fact that you are reading this column right now simply because we can count you as a number on a spreadsheet. You are a pageview, my friend. You are a "monthly unique visitor." One of millions. Nothing more, nothing less.

    2012 November 28, “Please Click On Our Website's Banner Ads”, in The Onion

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