how many page views do you get per user?

page views per user

[alexandra]

I know the page views per use may be different based on the content of the site, so what I would like to know is just a general information about it if page view per user is allowed to be disscussed in this forum.

According to the data from Alexa, my site has around 1.8 page views per user, I guess it is really too low. However, I also checked the page views per user of my competitors', they are around 2.1, as such mine seems to be normal, but I would like to do something to improve it, anyone has any good idea, I really appreciate it.

thanks
Alexandra

[longen]

Alexa doesn't offer a complete picture, better to run a Stats program against your Logs.
I think my average was about 1.2

As a large content site i placed the Google Site Search box on the main menu pages, but i've realized that most visitors didn't go to those menu's. I am now adding the Search box to hundred's of individual pages. As a result sisitors are definately making greater use of it.

[europeforvisitors]

The number of PVs per user will vary enormously from site to site. Whether having a low number of PVs per visit is good or bad will depend on the site. You might expect a community site to have quite a few PVs, for example, but an editorial site with information on many subtopics might average only a few PVs per visit (especially if users are coming in through search) because users leave when they've found the information they're looking for.

To make matters more complicated, a user who looks at only a page or two today may come back again and again if he regards your site as an authoritative source of information on a broad topic.

Finally, in terms of earning revenues from AdSense, the number of pages viewed per user (at least within a given session) may not matter. Example: The user who sees a page of tourist information on Shelbyville and immediately clicks an AdSense ad for "Shelbyville Hotels" at the top of the page will earn you more money than the user who comes back every day to argue about Shelbyville isses in your Shelbyville Forum and never clicks on an ad.

[richmondsteve]

alexandra, your question is too broad for you to get meaningful responses that tell you anything about your particular site.

That said, I have a content site with hundreds of pages of content and discussion forums. Page views divided by visitors averages 4-5 page views per visit. Registered users average 15-20 pages per visit and about 20 visits per month so they skew the numbers. Non-registered users rarely visit the forums (they can read the message, but can't post), look at 2-3 pages per visit and average 1.5 visits per month.

I work with log data a lot on many different types of sites. Discussion forums and similar sites can average dozens of pages per visitor with dozens of return visits per month. Affiliate sales sites with a few pages typically average 1 to 1.5 page views per visit.

I could go on, but it just dawned on me that there's probably a more appropriate forum at WebmasterWorld for this topic (how is this AdSense-specific?) and you need to share more to get more useful replies.

[FromRocky]

I have a website where all visitors to this site are either from Adwords or Overture. I also put the Adsense ad over every page. The results: Page Impression(adsense)/visitor(Overture+Adwords) = 1.1 to 1.7. Average=1.35

[mbennie]

10.67 pages/visit

[alexandra]

I am happy with my daily unique visitors, however since the page views per user is not much, I have to work hard to get more visitors if I want to increase my adsense revenue. What I want to do is to increase the page views per user, so the visitor may have more possibilities and chances to click the adsense ad if my CTR is constant.

I think it is really a big work to increase visitors, and have to do more than just increasing the page views per user. As such, increasing page views per user might be of some help to increase my adsense revenue.

Hope my input does make sense to you!

thanks
alexandra

[richmondsteve]

alexandra, you might want to take your question of increasing pages per visitor to Webmaster General [webmasterworld.com] forum or one of the other forums where it's more on-topic.

[alexandra]

thanks, I will go there to find my answer.

[irock]

My site averages 3.8... but 5% went as up as 58 to 100 page views.

[cdog863]

Alexa says I average 11.1 per visitor, but not all visitors use the alexa tool bar so this is from my logs.

Average Page views Per Visitor : 34.86

I run a community site so that's not tooo big of a number. It should be a lot higher

[zoltan]

34.86 is a big number...

[totter]

Alexa says my pageviews per user is 27 and change.

My stats package reports that my pageviews per user is around 2.5

go figure