Tassos Marinos Developer of Joomla Extensions

The Pageviews Condition

Published in EngageBox
Updated 16 Feb, 2022

The Pageviews Condition gives you granular control over when is the perfect time to show your box for a user. Knowing that the User has already visited a certain number of Pages in your Joomla website and then, assuming his loyalty or curiosity or commitment, you can safely display your box that will lead him to your conversion goal.

Pageviews Display Condition

Options

In the table below you can see which options are available to setup the Pageviews Condition.

Name Description
Match

This option lets you decide the comparison factor over the actual Pageviews and the desired number of Pageviews. Specifically you get to choose one of the following options:

  • Equals
  • Does not equal
  • Fewer than
  • Fewer than or equal to
  • Greater than
  • Greater than or equal to

The options are self-explanatory for the most part.

As an example, if you are interested in showing the box for those who have visited exactly "N" amount of Pages then you would select the "Equals" option and so on.

Pageviews This option lets you type in the amount of Pageviews that you are interested in having compared to the actual Pageviews.

How are Pageviews calculated?

A pageview is an instance of a page being loaded (or reloaded) in a browser. Pageviews is the total number of pages viewed by the visitor since the session started. Repeated views of a single page are counted.

To get a better understanding of when and how the Pageviews are calculated, take for example the scenario below:

  • A user visits your website. A new session is created and the Pageviews counter is now 1.
  • User visits an another page of your website. The Pageviews counter is now 2.
  • User reloads the same page. The pageviews counter is now 3.
  • User goes back to homepage. The pageviews counter is now 4.
  • User leaves your website by closing the browser (not only the tab). The session ends.
  • User opens his browser and visits your site again. A new session is created and the Pageviews counter is now 1 again.

Use Case

The most common use case for this Condition is when you want to ballpark the amount of commitment a website visitor has invested into your website so that you are able to lead him easier to his end goal without scaring him away. It's a great way to both show your message without increasing the Bounce Rate of your Joomla website.