Is it correct to say that "page views reflect how often Internet users come back to a site and?

Question

and how long they stay"?
I don't think PV measures how long users stay on a site.

Answer 1

I'd also keep in mind that a lot of hit counters and things like that are actually counting "unique visitors", which basically means,

"How many *different* people are visiting the website across a given period of time?", (Usually 24 hours). The counters can tell the difference between a new visitor and one that has already visited by checking their IP address. If you've already been to a
site once on any given day, and you return to that site again on
the same day, you will not be counted the second time if they are
only tracking unique visitors.

Answer 2

No, as a matter of fact it can be quite the opposite. If you're dealing with dynamic websites built in ASP, PHP, CFM, chances are the page views are highly inflated.

Many analytics programs offer tools that display time spent on a site by its users, if I was you I'd go off of that.

Checkout http://www.google.com/analytics for a free easy to use program for such possibilities.

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Answer 3

If the browser it set to auto-refresh a page, or the page itself has an http-refresh command in it, it may be usable to measure how long a user or users stay on a page. I wouldn't use that to describe what page views are though.
Then again it may be refreshing page from cache, so that would be a really awkward method.

Answer 4

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