# Page views (/docs/tracking/page-views)

A page view is an event named `page_view`. The script sends one when the page loads and on every client-side navigation: it listens to `history.pushState`, `history.replaceState` and the `popstate` event, so single-page apps (Next.js, React Router, Astro with view transitions) count every page without extra code.

It compares the **pathname**: a change that only touches the query string or the hash (`?tab=2`, `#pricing`) is not a second page view, because the page itself hasn't changed. A push to a new path is.

Every page view carries:

- **The path** (`/pricing`), without the query string or hash. Query strings never leave the browser.
- **The referrer**, on the first page view after the page loads, when it is another site: its origin and path, also without a query string.
- **The UTM tags** of the page's URL: `utm_source`, `utm_medium` and `utm_campaign`.

In the dashboard the path is the page under **Top pages**, the referrer's host the source under **Sources**, and the UTM tags the row under **Campaigns**. A page view without a referrer is "Direct or unknown".

## With the SDK [#with-the-sdk]

`numbers.autoTrack()` does what the script does. Without it, send page views yourself:

```ts
numbers.pageView()
```

See [the SDK](/docs/sdk).