Following the different changes in the metric labels, one of the biggest updates is "Loads" that now becomes "Page views".
| AS2 labels | Piano Analytics labels | Comments |
| Loads | Page views | This returns the number of page impressions matching the properties of the dataset. |
| Page views | - |
This returns the total number of page impressions of the visits matching the properties of the dataset. This metric will not be provided in Piano Analytics for the sake of simplification, following most of your comments. |
Example with 1 visit
Visit report
| Site | AS2 Loads |
AS2 Page views |
Piano Analytics Page views |
| My Demo Site | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Metrics Description: when looking at a site level, the 3 metrics have the same definition: this sums all the page impressions of all visits of the site.
Page report
| Pages | AS2 Loads |
AS2 Page views |
Piano Analytics Page views |
| PAGE A | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| PAGE B | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| PAGE C | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Metrics description:
- Analytics Suite 2
- Loads: it returns the number of page impressions, the value changes in every row to match the page names.
- Page views: it returns all the page impressions of the visits containing the page of the row.
- Piano Analytics
- Page views: it returns the number of page impressions, the value changes in every row to match the page names.
Example with 3 visits
Visit report
| Site | AS2 Loads |
AS2 Page views |
Piano Analytics Page views |
| My Demo Site | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Metrics Description: when looking at a site level, those 3 metrics have the same definition: this sums all the page impressions of all visits of the site.
Page report
| Pages | AS2 Loads |
AS2 Page views |
Piano Analytics Page views |
| PAGE A | 5 | 13 | 5 |
| PAGE B | 5 | 13 | 5 |
| PAGE C | 3 | 11 | 3 |
Metrics description:
- Analytics Suite 2 Loads: it returns the number of page impressions, the value changes in every row to match the page names.
- PAGE A: loaded 5 times in total (2 times in visit 1, 2 times in visit 2 and 1 time in visit 3).
- PAGE B: loaded 5 times in total (2 times in visit 1, 2 times in visit 2 and 1 time in visit 3).
- PAGE C: loaded 3 times in total (1 time in visit 1 AND 2 times in visit 2).
- Analytics Suite 2 Page views: it returns all the page impressions of the visits containing the page of the row.
- PAGE A: visits with PAGE A loaded 13 pages (5 page views in visit 1, 6 page views in visit 2 and 2 page views in visit 3).
- PAGE B: visits with PAGE B loaded 13 pages (5 page views in visit 1, 6 page views in visit 2 and 2 page views in visit 3).
- PAGE C: visits with PAGE C loaded 11 pages (5 page views in visit 1 and 6 page views in visit 2).
- Piano Analytics Page views: it focuses on the number of times each page was loaded:
- PAGE A: loaded 5 times in total (2 times in visit 1, 2 times in visit 2 and 1 time in visit 3).
- PAGE B: loaded 5 times in total (2 times in visit 1, 2 times in visit 2 and 1 time in visit 3).
- PAGE C: loaded 3 times in total (1 time in visit 1 AND 2 times in visit 2).