HIT

Technically, a hit is a request made to a Web server. Though many people think the term refers to the number of visits a web page gets, that's not really the case. If a web page has 5 images on it, when the page is loaded, 6 "hits" will be recorded. One for the HTML of the web page and 5 for the images. Another way the term "hit" can be used is in reference to search engine results. When you search for a phrase and the search engine finds 2000 results, you can say there were 2000 hits and be happy because you used the term correctly.