Webmasters use hits to measure their server's work load, and can easily be inflated.
The best determiner of visitors to a website is the number of times a page has been seen. The number of page views is also called number of impressions . Impressions refer to the number of times a page has been viewed by a user. The total impressions reported on this page reflect the actual page requests from visitors. Periodically, we will update the counter on the home page to synchronize it with the real page views.