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Pageviews vs. Unique Pageviews

A pageview is each time a visitor views a page on your website, regardless of how many hits are generated. Pages are comprised of files. Every image in a page is a separate file. When a visitor looks at a page (a pageview), they may see numerous images, graphics, pictures etc. and generate multiple hits.

A Pageview is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. If a visitor hits reload after reaching the page, this will be counted as an additional pageview. If a user navigates to a different page and then returns to the original page, a second pageview will be recorded as well.

The below image clearly show you the different between visits & pageview.

A unique Pageview aggregates pageviews that are generated by the same user during the same session. So now you know why normally advertisers would look into visits rather than Pageview.

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Visits & Visitors

A visit happens when someone or something (robot) visits your site. It may consists of one or more page views/ hits. One visitor can make multiple visits to your site.

Visits represent the number of individual sessions initiated by all visitors to your site. If a user is inactive on your site for 30 minutes or more, any future activity will be attributed to a new session. Users that leave your site and return within 30 minutes will be counted as part of the original session.

A session is defined as a series of page requests from the same uniquely identified client with a time of no more than 30 minutes. In other words, a session ends when someone goes to another site, or 30 minutes elapse between pageviews, whichever comes first. A visit ends only after a 30 minute time delay. If someone leaves a site, then returns within 30 minutes, this will count as one visit but two sessions. In practice, most systems ignore sessions and many analysts use both terms for visits. Because time between pageviews is critical to the definition of visits and sessions.

Last but not least, let’s check out Pageviews & Unique Pageviews

The visitor/ analytic report can be misinterpret due to the many similar terms used. Here you’ll find a more detailed explanation of each terms that lead to your questions.

Clicks & Visits

There is different between clicks and visits. Clicks indicates how many times your advertisements were clicked by visitors, while visits indicates the number of unique sessions initiated by your visitors.

A visitor may click your ad several times. When visitor clicks on the same advertisement multiple times during the same session, Google AdWords will record as multiple clicks while Google Analytics recognizes the separate pageviews as one visit. This is a common behavior among visitors who try to do comparison on prices etc.

A visitor may click on your advertisement, but didn’t really look into the page content. In this case, the Analytics tracking code is unable to execute and send tracking data to the Google servers. However, Google AdWords will still register it as one Click.

Technically, a visitor is the browser of a person who accepts a cookie.

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Used to chat with friends online whether it’s G Talk, msn, yahoo messenger or many others like AIM and MySpaceIM? Yes, we do the same. Online chatting has become part of our life, but what if someone intentionally block you in the chat room?

Here we will explore further, with Pidgin . Since they are many chatting networks available, we will only share one among the famous that is Google Talk.

1) If you are new to Pidgin, download Pidgin chat client here.

2) Assuming you’ve installed the file, we will next go straight to the configuration like below.

Click [Add] and follow the 2 steps as shown below and complete the [Basic] and [Advance] tab. Once this step is completed, you should be able to connect to GTalk and load your connection/ friends with no mistake. Now we are on our way to find out who actually block you (if any).

3) To check who is blocking you, go to Offline list. These lists may consist of peoples who genuinely not online and also peoples who intentionally block you where their status will shown as Offline as well.

Simply choose any friend whose status is Offline, right click on [Get Info] and you’ll be able to see the secret behind.

Below comparison chart tells which of your connection is really Offline and who are the peoples intentionally blocked you. If he/ she blocked you, nothing will show under Buddy Information.

Interesting? Get started with Pidgin now!

As Facebook user, chances you understand how Facebook (FB) works including adding friends, update recent status, view friends’ photos and using many other applications such as games and Pages.

Here, we wish to explore further on some other exciting tricks/ tips on how you can work on Facebook. If you find other than what we have listed below, do feel free do drop us a comment and we shall include it by highlighting your name/ website as well.

1) How to update FB without using FB _____ 2) Understand if any of your FB friend block/ delete you privately _____3) Update Microsoft Outlooks’ contacts with FB photo _____4) Update your blog post to FB wall automatically_____ 5) Chatting with FB friends directly from desktop _____6) Use FB without entering the browser _____7) Choose favorite FB friends on profile

1) How to update FB without using FB

The HelloTxt Facebook Application allows you to set your Facebook status by posting a message to HelloTxt. You must add the HelloTxt application to your Facebook account to enable this service.

After login into Facebook, simply click HelloTxt to get started!

2) Understand if any of your FB friend block/ delete you privately

3) Update Microsoft Outlooks’ contacts with FB photo

OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your  Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.

Check out the setup requirement here.

4) Update your blog post to FB wall automatically

Wondering how to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall automatically? Wordbook does it for you!  Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts as example shown below.

Question: Isn’t Wordbook the same as importing my blog posts into Facebook Notes? Find out why.

5) Chatting with FB friends directly from desktop

Gabtastik, who currently supports Facebook Chat and Google Talk lets you keep chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser. It also lets you specify window display level and window opacity, and lets you toggle quickly between supported chat services.

6) Use FB without entering the browser

Ever heard of Facebook Sidebar gadget? No surprise, you can easily see all the important updates happening on Facebook directly on your desktop!

Change your status. See all notifications sent to you. Hassle free login, simply login to the gadget once and keep yourself logged in all the time!

or find out more!

7) Choose your favorite FB friends on profile

Got your own favorite friends in Facebook? How to specially display their pictures on your Facebook Profile Page?

Facebook lets you decide who shows up under Friends box. Click “edit” pencil in your Friends box and key-in the name of your favorite which says “Always show these friends”. Done and you have your favorite 6, 9 or even 12 of them!

Yet, there are many others tips and tricks that we are just not able to share one by one. Why? Simply Facebook is so great that its team work on new ideas and applications every single minutes that made Facebook ranked the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users.

If you are one of the fans of Google, then you must know what the hack the above is.

Yes, they are Doodle, designed by Dennis Hwang. Let’s get to know him personally.

Click here.

What does Bounce Rate mean?

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. Use this metric to measure visit quality – a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren’t relevant to your visitors.

The more compelling your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert. You can minimize bounce rates by tailoring landing pages to each keyword and ad that you run. Landing pages should provide the information and services that were promised in the ad copy.

To view the bounce rates for your website, go to the Bounce Rate report under Visitors > Visitor Trending > Bounce Rate.

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