But tonight I noticed that the 2nd step has been Ajaxified - meaning you no longer need to land on a Request Confirmation/Skip This Step page. Instead it is an Ajax pop-up. Now, math has never been my strong point -- but doesn't this mean that the normal 3-page process has been whittled down to 1 page? Won't that play havoc with Facebook's precious page views? Weeell, maybe Facebook has realised that the Tyranny of the Page View is over.
Look Ma, no page view!
It seems a little arbitrary and confusing to see the add friend confirmation two different ways across the site.
]]>Does anyone have more detail on what Samaritan #2 said? i.e. "Nielsens tracking software actually would recognize an event like this happening, and class it as a page view." ??
]]>On top of that, how many page views does this really cut out? I have like 200 friends, so that means that this would subtract 200 page views over the lifetime of my FB use -- not even close to significant, considering I do 60 pageviews every time I browse a photo album. Since this is such an insignificant part of the site, the UI improvement definitely adds more value than an extra skyscraper ad.
]]>And this page took a while to load - must've been the snazzy new R/WW community comment features being implemented! I like the rating system. Cut a deal with MyBlogLog and give us pics too, Richard!
]]>oh ya.
]]>Agree ;)
]]>In any case, when evaluating Facebook, I think that reach is a much better metric anyhow, to begin with.
]]>Richard, the Nielsen tracking software records all calls made to the server, even those that are asynchronous. As far as I know, Nielsen count ALL of these as page views, regardless of just how significant the call is. So Nielsen will definitely account for these type of 'AJAX' interactions.
The problem is with those online measurement companies who merely track URLS (or clickstream), such as Hitwise. They counter this to a certain extent by using ISP logs and as such their sample size is huge and makes up for the deficiencies in tracking. They also deemphasize absolute metrics and use % share of the internet market.
]]>A background AJAX request is still regarded as a page view by the webserver - all a page view is is a browser requesting a file from the server. In the background or not, makes no diffrence
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This is 100% correct.
]]>AJAX, on the other hand, will always make a request to your server when it retrieves the files (POST/GET). AJAX can be used in conjunction with Lightbox, but they are not the same thing.
Javascript and building the DOM on the fly does not equal AJAX.
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