Is the number of page views on your site insufficient? Want your visitors to stay longer and see more content? Making visitors stay on the website longer is quite difficult, especially encouraging them to read other content. This is the main focus of page view measurement. In analyzing website visitor data, page views are an important measure to pay attention to.
Most visitors who come to the website do not have time to browse more than one page. The bounce rate will then increase each time a visitor leaves the website with only one page view.
Although low page views is not a measure of the quality of website content, it does mean that visitors are not interested in other content. This could be due to lack of blog navigation. Low page views also indicate poor user experience (UX) quality.
See an explanation of what page views are, functions and how to increase the number of page views on a website so that you get lots of traffic . Read to the end, OK!
What are PageViews?
Page view is the calculation of the number of pages on the website that are opened by visitors. Page views or PV is a Latest Mailing Database metric that measures the total number of pages viewed. Pageviews are one of the important elements if you are involved in Google Analytics to analyze website performance or content on it.
The way to count the number of page views is that every time a user opens a page on your site once, then one page view is counted. If the same user opens another page on the same website , the number of page views will also increase. If you are reading an article on a website and refresh it three times, Google Analytics will count it to 3 pageviews .
Actually there is another term besides pageview, namely unique pageview. Although at first glance they look the same, in fact these two things are different. Check out the next explanation!
Page Views vs Unique Visitors
Increasing website page views should be one of the important goals for every webmaster. From a user experience point of view , page views are a much more important indication of the quality of a website than “visits” or unique visits. For example:
- Website A: unique visitors 21.000, page views 22.512
- Website B: unique visitors 19.271, page views 53.165
If you look at the data above, of CUB Directory course you will think that website A is far superior with a high quality website because of the number of unique visits. Even though website A is not superior because of the small number of page views.