Impressions = Unique Views?

Hey, i hear alot talking about unique views, on google it says impressions does this mean unique views?

if not where can you find out how many unique views your recievieing?

Cheers

 

also not sure about this ..but i thought that's not equal..

 

"Unique views" is not a very scientific term, everyone has different methods for trying to infer it.

But a common benchmark is Google Analytics. Install that on your site and you can get their estimate of unique views.

It's not the same as impressions. Impressions is just a count of how many times anyone viewed any pages. Unique views is an attempt to determine how many different people viewed pages.

 

thanks for the explanation.

 

page load and impression is the same thing. But unique visitor is different.

 

thanx for expl

 

impressions and uniques are different.

U can have 20 impressions from one ip recorded on adsense, but only 1 ip recorded on analytics.

 

Thanks for that... clears it up for me.

 

I use StatCounter for my analytic's...it's free.

It's simple and accurate.

BTW my Pageviews are very similar to my Impression...because every time a unique visitors lands on my site and roam around increasing my Pageviews it also so my Adsense ads on that page which reflects as Impressions in Adsense.

 

If you install Google Analytics onto your Web site you will receive traffic data regarding absolute unique visitors, page views, visits, average time on site, and bounce rate. These are all important metrics to track.

 

Try Google Analytics. There are also other free tools that monitor uv on your site. Check out some of the plugins for FireFox.

 

Exactly It is

 

I must second this post... I remember a few months ago when I was setting up one of my sites that throughout the whole design/content placement phase I was visiting the site several times a day, I had installed analytics and Adsense first thing and I remember watching my number of impressions go up like crazy, lol for s sec there I thought I had hit the Jackpot and that I was getting a ton of direct traffic .. lol

 

The impressions from the Google Adsense report include your own views.
When I replied to a comment in my blog post, I generated at least two page impressions. One impression was when I open the particular blog post. Another impression was after I posted the comment, and the page refreshed.
I can't consider myself as unique visitor to my own blog!