I do track visits to my blog and I keep half an eye on Google Search console to see the performance in the Google index. Since I use WordPress, I have Jetpack

I do track visits to my blog and I keep half an eye on Google Search console to see the performance in the Google index. Since I use WordPress, I have Jetpack which comes with rudimentary statistics. I've set up Matomo recently as a experiment. I'm still evaluating if it's worth my while. A more fundamental question is this: To what end are you writing? Are you writing to gain a better perspective yourself? Do you want to inform, show, teach, entertain a larger audience? Do you balance towards one or the other? Or is it a bit of both? Those questions are important as they inform your writing style, topics and what you want to get out publicly writing in the first place. Ever since the classic "visitor counter" on a website, visitor tracking has it's benefits and pitfalls. Like unwittingly narrowing your focus to simply chasing an ever higher number of visitors, rather then just getting the satisfaction of having written a piece and learning something while you did it. A far better indicator would be people reaching out to you about your work and what you've written. I think that says far more then just a statistic.