I see that the so rated most popular Nigerian website Vanguard newspapers site has about 9 million hits monthly as at the last time I checked. But webmasters have said that page impressions are in fact more important than hits in judging the popularity of a website.

The following details are on page impressions and hits and records from three of my 28 blogs from Google Webmasters.


What Are Page Impressions?

A page impression happens anytime you load a page through your browser. Anytime you navigate to a different page or even use your back and forward buttons to get to a certain page, each time you load that page counts as 1 page impression.

Now, as explained above, each time you get a page impression, several hits are counted based on the amount of items that are loaded within that page.

You can use page impressions to indicate how popular your site is by showing the rate of page impressions per visitor. In other words if lets say there are 10 page impressions per visitor, this means that your visitors are interested in your website and they keep going from one page to the next because they like your content.

(5 images + 10 buttons + 1 video = 16 hits + 1 more for accessing the HTML file itself thus resulting in a total of 17 hits)
http://basicblogtips.com/hits-page-impressions-visits.html

For Kisses "n" Roses
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard?hl=en&siteUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fkissesandroses..com%2F#utm_source=en-wmcmsg&utm_medium=wmcmsg&utm_campaign=bm
200,000 impressions
1,000 clicks

From June 17 - July 7, 2012.
Links to Your Site

Total links
207,594

For Nigerian Times
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard?hl=en&siteUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnigeriantimes..com%2F


3,400,000 impressions
15,000 clicks

From June 17 -July 7, 2012.

Links to Your Site

Total links
149,053
Who links the most

.com
145,214
technorati.com
464
carboncapturereport.org
214
123people.com
185
events.net
185

For Nigerians Report
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/external-links?hl=en&siteUrl=http://www.nigeriansreport.com/

370,000 impressions
1,600 clicks

From Jue 17 - July 7, 2012.

Links to Your Site

Total links
2,808
Who links the most

namepedia.co.uk
945
publish2.com
148
123people.com
136
lookupthe.name
118
fest21.com
100