The average daily page views will be the median line of the daily page views graph. How exact do you need it?

Uh okay... Much thanks for your response. However, I don't have a median line appearing on my daily page views graph. How do you make that appear? I don't see any options referring to that or any mention of it.

The median line will become apparent if you stare at the graph long enough. It is an invisible horizontal line in the middle of the waves.

Ooookaayy...

Uh... the words "yank" and "chain" immediately come to mind after reading that.

With all due respect, what the heck is that supposed to mean? Either the median line is visible or it isn't.

That's sarcasm, right?

Is it really a median line? Is that what GA says? Median is nothing like an average.

Okay, I guess there can be different median lines, perhaps that was the wrong choice of words.

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You have high days and low days. The daily average -- or trend -- is a line in the middle somewhere. It is not drawn in GA -- you can just look at the graph and see the approximate average line of all the waves and troughs.

Again, if you stare at it long enough it might just appear. But a quick glance will tell you the same thing.

[edited by: Tourz at 12:05 am (utc) on June 20, 2008]

[edited by: Receptional at 4:12 pm (utc) on June 24, 2008]
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Yes - you are right Little Giant - you can't get pageviews per day on the screen, but it's easy enough from the dashboard. The default being a month, just dividing the pageviews on the default dashboard by 30 gives you the average pageviews per day.

Aside: Average in this case being the "mean", not the "Median" Tourz. Staring at an invisible line on a monitor doesn't help to write a meaningful report.

For me that wouldn't be an important metric. Page views per visit is better for me to measure engagement - but I guess if you have an advertising model, then pageviews becomes more critical.

Dixon.

I think 'median line' sounds better than 'mean line'... let's rewrite the definition starting... now.

okay, carry on.

you can get it from the data downloads - and you can then calc a mean, median or whatever you want.

you can also approximate it by setting your view to monthly but that may not be how you want to see it.

PV/visit is more useful for me, particularly when you can drill down further by keyword or other source.

Average daily pageviews for a given time range = Total number of pageviews / Total number of days for that time range

Just set the dates in the Google calendar boxes, and get the pageview total for that date range. Then divide by the number of days. You can do it on scratch paper if you know how to divide.

Yes obviously I know how to do that. I've had excellent math skills right from a very young age. I also made it clear in my launch post that I was already figuring out average daily page views manually using a calculator. However, once again, in light of all the other information offered by GA, its' a little weird that average daily page views isn't provided by the program automatically. It would be immensely useful to figure out things like if a link to a sales page produced more or less click throughs depending on its placement on another page and exactly how many more click throughs per day, etc. It's annoying having to figure that out manually.

figure out things like if a link to a sales page produced more or less click throughs depending on its placement

True. But I prefer measuring results in dollars, not pageviews.