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To: marcos who wrote (1036)	6/9/1999 5:20:00 PM
From: Rick Adrian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1249

Marcos, "Page" is a shortening of "Web page" and is used to designate a single file residing in a larger Web site. A given site might have a home page, a search page, and an archive page, to name just a few. A "page view" is a term used by Web sites and their advertisers to designate how many times users visit their site - literally, how many times viewers "view the pages." One page view means one person visited a particular page. Web keepers have a difficult time counting how many people come to visit their Web pages. One of the earliest ways of estimating how much "traffic" a site was getting was to count the number of "hits" it got. A hit is a request to the Web server to send along a file - for instance, when you came to this page the server got one hit requesting all this text. Seems like a good way to tell how many people are asking for pages from a Web site, doesn't it? Problem is, it's not — not only do lots of graphics on a page make counts artifically high, but some of the tricks your computer does to speed things up (like caching) will make counts artificially low. Hope this helps. Rick