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The million is a serious milestone, but pageviews[1] are still a shallow metric. I wish him nothing but continued success, and his advice is spot-on, but I als
by theDoug 16y ago
The million is a serious milestone, but pageviews[1] are still a shallow metric.
I wish him nothing but continued success, and his advice is spot-on, but I also hope he'll care more for promoting things like the number of people an item has been re-sent to from current readers, effects of efforts to encourage repeat readership, or any other metric that comes from the actions of that community. Dig deeper and segment your numbers, its well worth it!
[1] formerly known as 'hits' before people who do web analytics for a living exposed it as How Idiots Track Stats.
- goatforce5 16y agoA pageview consists of many hits.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoMy pageview:hits ratio varies between 1:3 and 1:5, on a WP blog with minimal images, FWIW.
- DanielRibeiro 16y agoOn Startups Lessons Learned (http://pt-br.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510 http://pt-br.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510) one founder from Dropbox mentioned as a metrics guide the "Startup Metrics for Pirates" (http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir...). Yes, pageviews is the beginning, not the end.
- damoncali 16y agoNitpick: hits and page views are not the same thing. A hit is just a request for a file. A page view is an entire page, and may consist of many hits.