{"id":1378,"date":"2026-02-04T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/hits-and-page-views\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:43","slug":"hits-and-page-views","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/hits-and-page-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Hits and Page Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hits and page views are not the same thing.<\/p>\n<h2>Hits<\/h2>\n<p>A hit is a request for a file from the server.<\/p>\n<p>This can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The web page itself<\/li>\n<li>Images<\/li>\n<li>CSS files<\/li>\n<li>JavaScript files<\/li>\n<li>Audio files<\/li>\n<li>Video files<\/li>\n<li>Other files loaded by the page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Page Views<\/h2>\n<p>A page view is counted when a page is viewed.<\/p>\n<p>This usually means a page such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>.html<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>.htm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>.php<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Example<\/h2>\n<p>If a web page contains 20 images and someone visits that page, the visit may create:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 page view<\/li>\n<li>21 hits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is one request for the page itself, plus one request for each image.<\/p>\n<h2>Why the Difference Matters<\/h2>\n<p>Hits can be much higher than page views because one page can load many separate files.<\/p>\n<p>When checking website traffic, page views are usually more useful than hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hits and page views are not the same thing. Hits A hit is a request for a file from the server. This can include:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[26],"class_list":["post-1378","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1378\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}