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Can I ask why any private website even needs analytics? I just don't see the point. Is it just vanity, or making sure anyone actually reads the articles/content

Can I ask why any private website even needs analytics? I just don't see the point. Is it just vanity, or making sure anyone actually reads the articles/content, or trying to adapt to audience preferences/search queries/...? I get the point for any commercial venture but for most sides I simply don't see the added value. If you want to know whether people like your work add a comment section or a newsletter signup - why do you need to spy on your users with intrusive tools, send their data around the globe to kraken like google, just to have a few statistics?

XCSme 6y ago
What do you mean by private? I assume many people have sites for their small businesses. Imagine you have a restaurant, you want to be able to know how many people reach your site, how they reach it, why they don't contact you (do they leave after seeing the menu? or the opening times? or the location? or photos?), are your contact forms properly working, is your website loading fast enough, etc.