If you have started your own blog then you must have seen unique pageviews and unique sessions data on your blog. You must be wondering what these are if this is your first time writing a blog on your own site. If you don’t see this data on your blog then you just need to create an account on google analytics and connect your website or blog with it. It will show you the daily activity on your blog or site.
Sessions and pageviews are different from each other but they do exist together. In this article I will tell you what both of them means and how they effect your blog. If you are planning to start your own blog then you should know about Blogging: 8 important things to know before you start
Difference between unique pageviews and sessions
As you may have imagined from the name pageviews, it is the number of views your page has. Whenever you write a blog post it gets posted on your listed page. Your each blog post act as a different page and whenever any viewer clicks on your page or read your post its counted as a pageview. So, unique pageviews are the views which your post or page has received in a day. Google analytics gives you the day-wise data of your pageviews and sessions. You should have different page for your blog posts and different for contact and about information. Also don’t forget to add privacy policy page in your site, its very important.
Unique sessions means number of times a new user spends a time on your website. In session you can receive multiple pageviews if the user is clicking on all your pages. So, the time spent by a user on your site is counted as a session. If a user has spent 5 minutes on your site or blog and read your 10 posts on different pages then you will have one unique session and 10 unique pageviews. And if that same user visit your site again after some time then it will not be counted as unique session but it will add up to average time spent in a session.
Similarly, if a user left your site on some page and then he/she comes back to the same page after some time it will not be counted as a pageview, but if he clicks on another page and then again visit that page then you will have two pageviews.
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How unique pageviews and unique sessions effect your site
Unique sessions and pageviews both are extremely important for your site or blog. Pageviews will generate you money if you are earning from google adsense. More pageviews means means more clicks on the ads and hence the more money. Also, in order to get approval from google adsense you need to have good number of pageviews.
Without unique sessions you can’t have unique pageviews. For more pageviews you require more unique sessions. With unique sessions another data shown by google analytics is average session time. With average session time it shows how much time a user spend on your site on average in one session. More average session time means more engagement. More engagement means more time spent on looking ads if you are running ads on your site, hence more money.
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Therefore both the unique sessions and unique pageviews are very important for your site. You should always update new posts on your blog or site so that you can achieve more sessions and pageviews. Hope with this article you don’t have any confusion between both of them.
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