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rajesh_magar
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Mar 2, 2016 6:25 AM UTC
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What's the difference between Entries, Visits, and Pageviews?

Hi All,

I am kind of newly born in this Catalyst empire. I am so confused by the definition of those three parameters, as I see it's so different from what it means inside the Google Analytics (Kind of used to ...!).

So can please someone explain it to me with the spoon? 

Thanks in advance!

    TanmayMathur
    TanmayMathurAccepted solution
    Employee
    Mar 2, 2016 9:23 AM UTC

    Hi Rajesh,

    Suppose you visit a website for the first time and browser to the pages A>B>C>D>E>F in that order. 

    Since A is the first page you viewed when you entered the site, page A will get 1 entry added to its data. 

    Your stay on the website is counted as 1 visit.

    Since you viewed these 6 pages, each of these pages will get 1 pageview added to their data.

    I hope this gives you a clarity. Thanks!

    Tanmay

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    himanshur199465
    New Participant
    Feb 6, 2019 12:39 AM UTC

    Very well explained. Thank you so much

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    JamesWebley
    JamesWebley
    Level 1
    Feb 5, 2019 10:09 PM UTC

    If you have three pages, and they're viewed in the order:

    A, B, C, A, C

    You'll end up with:

    PageVisitsPage ViewsEntriesExits
    A1210
    B1100
    C1201

    Hope that helps.

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      fabbricinoa
      New Participant
      Apr 2, 2020 9:53 PM UTC
      in this example, is the number of unique visitors also 1 per page?
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      himanshur199465
      New Participant
      Feb 5, 2019 6:50 PM UTC

      Another question so in the same scenario what if the user visits page c twice in the same session/visit . Will the page c has 2 visits and 2 page views ?

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      warrensander
      warrensander
      Level 6
      Mar 4, 2016 6:06 PM UTC

      however to throw some water on this. if you create a visit or visitor segment and only pages C & D qualify then in that report C will get the entry credit because that is the page where you entered the 'segment;' (think of reports without segmentation as being in the 'all pages (no segment)' segment.

      so it's possible to conclude the numbers if you don't take everything into account.

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        TanmayMathur
        TanmayMathur
        Employee
        Mar 3, 2016 2:22 PM UTC

        Yes Rajesh you are correct!

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          rajesh_magarAuthor
          New Participant
          Mar 2, 2016 10:46 AM UTC

          Thanks Tanmay.

          Just one more clarification. So as per the above mentioned scenario all the pages from B>F will also record 1 visit but 0 Entries. Right?

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          TanmayMathur
          TanmayMathurAccepted solution
          Employee
          Mar 2, 2016 9:23 AM UTC

          Hi Rajesh,

          Suppose you visit a website for the first time and browser to the pages A>B>C>D>E>F in that order. 

          Since A is the first page you viewed when you entered the site, page A will get 1 entry added to its data. 

          Your stay on the website is counted as 1 visit.

          Since you viewed these 6 pages, each of these pages will get 1 pageview added to their data.

          I hope this gives you a clarity. Thanks!

          Tanmay

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