A page view (PV) or page impression is a request to load a single page of an Internet site. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages On the World Wide Web a page request would result from a web surfer clicking on a link on another HTML page pointing to the page in question. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure This should be contrasted with a hit, which refers to a request for a file from a web server. A computer file is a block of Arbitrary Information, or resource for storing information which is available to a Computer program and is usually The term web server can mean one of two things A Computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from web clients which are There may therefore be many hits per page view.
These page views may be counted as part of web analytics. Web analytics is the study of online behaviour in order to improve it For the owner of the site this information can be useful to see if any change in the page (such as the information or the way it is presented) results in more visits. If there are any advertisements on the page, the advertisers would also be interested in the number of page views to determine their expected revenue from the ads. In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services For this reason it is a term that is used widely for Internet based marketing and advertising. In popular usage "marketing" is the promotion of products especially Advertising and Branding However in professional usage the term has a wider meaning of Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand