Birgit:
I am cc-ing analytics@ our public e-mail list where questions like this one get asked (and archived).
>As far as I know, page views are counted every time someone views a page, and if someone reloads a page several time, each time would be counted as 1 >page view. Is that correct?>
>I wonder if you could explain the reasoning behind that a bitYes, we do not count "distict" pageviews by a user, but pageviews overall. So if look at barak obama pages 10 times one day those are 10 pageviews.
>If we would want to be able to know if a page got just reloaded by the same person, we would need to have a unique ID for each user, and this would have to >be browser connected. I'm guessing that this would be a strong privacy issue.
Correct. Event with unique IDs we could never identify users, just devices. As uniqueIDs are really cookies on your browser.
Thanks,
nuria