What is the difference between 'Page Views' and 'Visits'?

Good Question.... According to Google: A "Pageview" is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. If a visitor hits reload after reaching the page, this will be counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, a second pageview will be recorded as well. Where as "Visits" indicates the number of unique sessions initiated by your visitors. For Example: If a visitor may click your ad multiple times on your website. When one person clicks on one advertisement multiple times in the same session, Google Analytics recognizes the separate pageviews as one visit. So as per Google Analytics, If a website has more page views than visits from the same user then it will be considered as a single visit. Yes of course it is always good to have more page views than visits as because the Pageviews of a website is calculated with the help of user Visits. Hope you get clarified...!!! :)

Hi..., Visit - Someone comes to your web site and looks around a bit. They may go to one page, or they may go to 100 pages, but their still only visiting once. View - How many pages were seen by that visit Hit - How many physical resources were requested from the server by that visit. Pages are made up of many items (images, text, etc). Each of those is a Hit, while a view is the page itself Think of it like a book store. A person goes into the store (visit) and picks up 5 books to buy (views). While he is holding the books, he flips through them and looks at a few pictures (hits). So he would have 1 visit to the store, 5 books handled during his visit (views), and maybe 30 pictures he looked at (hits). So which value is more useful? It depends on the use of the information. If you're in marketing and you're striving for bragging rights or high activity numbers, use Hits. However, if you are using your stats to actually identify trends and the personal impact of your site, use Views and Visits. Hits can always be inflated artificially, by adding a few more images to a page, for example. Visits and Views, however, represent people coming to your site and the number of web pages they saw, which is much more useful for analyzing usage patterns. Regards, Ravi Shanker http://rvshanker.wordpress.com

Visit and page views are different. visit: when someone come to your website from a unique IP address it will be a visit. It wil be recorded in the tracking system which your website stats are generating. Page view is the number of times a visitor views that particular page. A page refresh can also be a page view based on the tracking algorithm set up with your web analytics system