I suspect it would because personal data needs to be collected in order for such aggregated statistics to be made and collection seemingly counts as processing,

I suspect it would because personal data needs to be collected in order for such aggregated statistics to be made and collection seemingly counts as processing, but I’m not sure as I do not yet fully understand the GDPR. Sadly I cannot provide any advice on the topic. In the case of my planned website, I will not even be calculating aggregated statistics.