You can vote as many times as you like. Almost 20,000 votes were cast. Comparative bargain Building and operating a Web site can be cheaper than airing a single TV commercial or sending out a national mailing of fund-raising letters. Gauging the value of that investment can be difficult. Forbes boasts that his Web site received 16.3 million hits in its first week.
Page views count the number of times a page has been visited.
A hit counts the number of times that all the elements of a page, including graphics, have been accessed. For example, when someone calls up a Web page with four graphics, that's five hits . Campaign sites are far less popular than many general-interest sites. For example, the site of former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, a candidate for the Democratic nomination, has logged more than 300,000 page views since December. Former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander's site has had about 600,000 page views since it went up March 9.