Ask HN: In My Country, People Still Use Hits To Describe Websites...

I live in Kenya, and our internet adoption is blowing up right now, especially on mobile. I run an ad-based startup which I've been diligently building up to 140,000 users. I thought this was great work, considering the total addressable market for my website consists of just over 2 million people. But shock on me, when I embarked on sales, I've found that some of the biggest 'must-buy' websites still quote their hit count when pitching ads, and the ad agencies are buying it. Even Google Kenya has an ad campaign out for their local business directory where they quote that one small business owner is getting '12,000 hits per day' on her page. All of a sudden, my 140,000 users looks like spit in a hurricane. I heard this was also a problem in the earlier days for the more developed internet economies, so how did people get around it?