In Webtrends, what is the difference between a HIT, a VISIT and a PAGE VIEW

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user123212 picture user123212 · Jan 19, 2010 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I cannot seem to find any straight and clear documentation explaining the differences between these value types. Hits used to be any call to the server regardless of the file type, but Webtrends only tracks page views, so how is a page view different for a hit? As for visits, I assume that 1 visit can produce multiple page views.

I am seeking enlightenment.

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UPDATE:

This is a screen cap of the results im trying to understand.

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Answer

Oded picture Oded · Jan 19, 2010
  • Hit - any and every request (image, html, css, js etc...)
  • PageView - every request to a page (html, aspx, asp, php etc...)
  • Visit - a session, the duration of someone coming to your website, regardless of the number of page views they have generated

These are fairly generic terms and this usage is accepted in most web tracking lingo.

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