Page views and engagement
Page views
Section titled “Page views”A page view is recorded with how the page was reached:
| Navigation | Meaning |
|---|---|
load |
A full page load |
soft |
A route change in a single-page app (History API) |
restore |
The page came back from the back/forward cache |
prerender |
A prerendered page being shown |
Single-page apps need nothing extra: route changes are picked up automatically. Only full loads are compared with your server’s page loads to measure loss.
Engagement
Section titled “Engagement”When a visitor leaves a page, one engagement event reports the time the page was visible, the time they were actually interacting, and how far they scrolled. This is where engaged time, bounce rate and scroll reach come from.
Visits and visitors
Section titled “Visits and visitors”- A visit is a visitor’s activity until 30 minutes pass without an event. Because the visitor hash changes at midnight, a visit never spans two days.
- A visitor counts once per day in your site’s time zone: without cookies, the same person on two days is two visitors. Read more in how counting works.