<s>
In	O
web	O
analytics	O
and	O
website	O
management	O
,	O
a	O
pageview	O
or	O
page	O
view	O
,	O
abbreviated	O
in	O
business	O
to	O
PV	O
and	O
occasionally	O
called	O
page	O
impression	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
request	O
to	O
load	O
a	O
single	O
HTML	B-Language
file	I-Language
(	O
web	O
page	O
)	O
of	O
an	O
Internet	O
site	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
contrast	O
,	O
a	O
hit	O
refers	O
to	O
a	O
request	O
for	O
any	O
file	B-Operating_System
from	O
a	O
web	B-Application
server	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Therefore	O
,	O
there	O
may	O
be	O
many	O
hits	O
per	O
page	O
view	O
since	O
an	O
HTML	B-Language
page	O
can	O
contain	O
multiple	O
files	O
such	O
as	O
images	O
,	O
</s>
<s>
videos	O
,	O
JavaScripts	B-Language
,	O
cascading	B-Language
style	I-Language
sheets	I-Language
(	O
CSS	B-Language
)	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
the	O
activity	O
is	O
not	O
necessarily	O
associated	O
with	O
loading	O
a	O
complete	O
HTML	B-Language
page	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hit	O
ratio	O
refers	O
to	O
the	O
percentage	O
of	O
computer	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
accesses	O
(	O
HTTPS	O
requests	O
delivered	O
per	O
requests	O
received	O
)	O
that	O
are	O
found	O
in	O
certain	O
levels	O
of	O
the	O
memory	B-General_Concept
hierarchy	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
other	O
words	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
a	O
measure	O
of	O
content	O
requests	O
that	O
a	O
web	B-Protocol
caching	I-Protocol
system	O
can	O
deliver	O
successfully	O
from	O
its	O
cache	O
storage	O
,	O
compared	O
to	O
how	O
many	O
requests	O
it	O
receives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Byte	O
hit	O
ratio	O
,	O
referring	O
to	O
amount	O
of	O
bandwidth	O
that	O
a	O
browser	B-Application
's	O
caching	O
system	O
has	O
saved	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Perpetrators	O
used	O
a	O
tool	O
called	O
'	O
a	O
bot	B-Protocol
 '	O
to	O
buy	O
fake	O
page-views	O
for	O
attention	O
,	O
recognition	O
,	O
and	O
feedback	O
,	O
increasing	O
the	O
site	O
's	O
value	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fake	O
page	O
views	O
can	O
reflect	O
bots	B-Protocol
instead	O
of	O
humans	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wikipedia	O
pageviews	O
of	O
certain	O
types	O
of	O
articles	O
correlate	O
with	O
changes	O
in	O
stock	O
market	O
prices	O
,	O
box	O
office	O
success	O
of	O
movies	O
,	O
spread	O
of	O
disease	O
among	O
other	O
applications	O
of	O
datamining	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
directly	O
influence	O
what	O
is	O
popular	O
on	O
Wikipedia	O
such	O
statistics	O
may	O
provide	O
a	O
more	O
unfiltered	O
and	O
real-time	O
view	O
into	O
what	O
people	O
are	O
searching	O
for	O
on	O
the	O
Web	O
and	O
societal	O
interests	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2015	O
,	O
a	O
study	O
conducted	O
by	O
the	O
Association	O
for	O
the	O
Advancement	O
of	O
Artificial	O
Intelligence	O
(	O
AAAI	O
)	O
examined	O
the	O
influence	O
of	O
Reddit	B-Application
posts	O
on	O
Wikipedia	O
pageviews	O
.	O
</s>
