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slug: was-ist-ein-kontakt
title: "Does every page view count as a touchpoint?"
category: journeys
locale: en
updated: 2026-10-15
keywords: ["touchpoint","contact","visit","session","page view","navigation","direct"]
questions: ["When does a visit to my website become a touchpoint in the journey?","Does every page view count as a touchpoint?","Why does my journey have fewer touchpoints than page views?","Why is the checkout not a touchpoint in the journey?","Why does direct get the last touch?","What is a touchpoint?","How many touchpoints does a visit have?"]
url: https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/was-ist-ein-kontakt
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# Does every page view count as a touchpoint?

**When does a visit to my website become a touchpoint in the journey?**

A visit is one touchpoint, however many pages are viewed in it; the individual page views do not count separately. The same visit only adds another touchpoint when a new campaign signal arrives: a different click ID, different UTM parameters or a different external referrer.

A touchpoint answers the question “where did this person come from?”. Someone who arrives at your shop through an ad and then looks at five pages arrived once: through the ad. The five pages are navigation, not five touchpoints.

## When a touchpoint is created

- The first hit of a visit is a touchpoint. It gets the channel its signal gives, or “Direct” if there is none.
- If a new signal arrives within the same visit, that is another touchpoint: a different click ID (such as gclid, fbclid, msclkid, ttclid), different UTM parameters, or an external referrer that did not apply before. With analytics-only consent, only the platform of a click ID counts: two clicks from the same platform are then one signal.
- After 30 minutes without an event a new visit starts, and with it a new touchpoint.
- Everything else is navigation: product page, cart, the pages of the checkout.

Navigation is not lost. Every page view is stored and processed, keeps the journey active and counts towards page views, sessions, funnels and your event quota as before. It just does not appear as a touchpoint of its own in the journey, and the attribution models assign it nothing. You can see it in the journey’s visit history, as a step of the visit.

## Why this changes the models

An example: someone opens your shop directly, comes back through a Google ad, looks at a product and orders after two checkout pages. That is two touchpoints: “Direct” and “Paid Search”. “Last touch” gives the order to the ad; “Linear” splits it 50/50. If every page counted, “Direct” would appear four times in the journey, take the last touch, and the ad would keep 20 per cent under “Linear”.

Interactions such as product views or add-to-cart still appear in the journey. They receive no share in any model. That has not changed.

> **Caution:** This rule applies from 17 September 2026. Touchpoints recorded before then stay as they were measured: a visit there can carry several touchpoints, mostly “Direct”. Until they fall out of the click window (at most 90 days) they also count towards new conversions. Without a session identifier, as with server events or older installations, no visit can be recognised; there every page view remains a touchpoint of its own.

## Also asked

- Does every page view count as a touchpoint?
- Why does my journey have fewer touchpoints than page views?
- Why is the checkout not a touchpoint in the journey?
- Why does direct get the last touch?
- What is a touchpoint?
- How many touchpoints does a visit have?

## Related

- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/wie-entsteht-journey
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/attributionsmodelle
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/journey-explorer
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/besuchsverlauf
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/quellen-erkennen
- https://bench.metrunio.com/en/help/utm-parameter