What is the difference between page views, visits, sessions, visitors, users and hits? — Optizent

Confused about the difference between Hits, Page Views, Visitors, Users, Session and Visits? Well this article is for you. I am going to explain all these terms one by one.

What are Hits?

How many times have you herd someone say, How many Hits did we get on the site? Hits was a term commonly used to measure websites traffic back in the old days and surprisingly many still use this term. This term was mainly used by IT folks, early…