Page View is Dead ? Are you sure about that ?

I’ve seen an interesting post from Steve Rubel about The dying page view metric that is posted on Search Engine Watch and Problogger. And here’s some important part, quoted from Steve Rubel post :

The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of websites. These sites will be built with AJAX, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page -- like you can do within Gmail or the Google Reader. This eliminates the need to click from one page to another. The movement to chunk the web down into widgets will only accelerate this.

While i personally agree that page view may become obsolete in the future, but as for now .. i don't think it’s a good idea to use it on your website / blog .. especially if you’re just started building your website (and feel the need to use counter) or you want to monetize your site by placing advertisement on your page but they require you to disclose about your monthly page view. Then you can't use AJAX or other similar web technologies that is not requiring refreshing / reloading every page all the time.

As a note, below is an example of advertiser that require you to disclose your page view information (YPN) :

And another note is, AJAX powered website require the visitor to enable javascript in their browser. And not everyone like to enable javascript because of various reason except for trusted website only, (and that’s including me) .. and i'm sure there’s many other people on the net like me that’s prefer to disable javascript in their browser configuration

For most visitor i don’t think it’s a big problem because most internet users already enable javascript in their browser configuration (because it's the default setting for every internet browser). But i think it’s best for those who’s creating AJAX enabled website, also considering to create a non javascript friendly page for those who’s prefer to disable javascript because of various reason ;)