Ever notice how when you visit a mainstream site they have these stories that get broken into 10 sections that force you to click through and look at every one? LIke the top 10 best looking porn stars. #10 – a page, then you click next and the next page loads to reveal #9. They could just freaking tell us in the one single page but no every damn time they have to have their countdown on 10 totally different pages. And they are doing that to artificially inflate their pageviews because that is what people sell ad rates based on – not actual unique visitors.
A unique visitor is one single person – and then a page view is how many pages a person may look at while at that site. So a single person could view 27 pages, while the next guy views 12 and the next 109. In the end that site now has 148 page views but still just 3 unique visitors. So there is absolutely no way in the world you could even guess what a sites page views may be based on their alexa rating – you could guesstimate unique visitors, sure but not page views because you just don’t have any way of knowing how many pages a single visitor to any given website may view and in the case like so many of those mainstream sites – a single visitor is tricked into viewing 10 at a time. So yeah, this person who helped you understand alexa really missed it big time on understanding traffic.