Modern programming techniques can serve pages by other means that don't show as HTTP requests.
[7] There are also many other page view measurement tools available including open source ones as well as licensed products.
Perpetrators used a tool called 'a bot' to buy fake page-views for attention, recognition, and feedback, increasing the site's value.
[13] As a result, some people already started building alternatives to measure audiences, such as "Ophan", saying that the page view is becoming passe.
[16] Wikipedia pageviews of certain types of articles correlate with changes in stock market prices,[17] box office success of movies,[18] spread of disease[19][20] among other applications of datamining.
[24] In 2015, a study conducted by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) examined the influence of Reddit posts on Wikipedia pageviews.