A request by a browser to load a traditional HTML page (or equivalent in other technologies – such as Flash) is known as a page view. This is distinct from a hit which refers to requests to load any resource from a server. As a consequence a single page view will usually correlate to several hits as an HTML page will often load a number of images and other resources.
This information is regularly recorded in a number of web analytics packages as it is important to webmasters who can determine the popularity of different pages with their readership. On top of that any advertisers will be very interested in the number of page views the page they wish to advertise on would usually get as this will be a good indicator of the number of impressions to expect from their advertisement.