Only page view? That's not really useful and you already got that with backend logs.
With true analytics, understanding typical session helps you optimising users workflow, making sure relevant features are easily discovered at the right place.
It really helps when you want to work on user experience. You may need metrics such as LCP, INP and CLS with details per type of page, ability to drill down data and get that in real time.
ROI of such script depends on what you do with the data. If that's vanity or not even looked at, you are emitting CO2 for nothing.
>optimising users workflow, making sure relevant features are easily discovered
>work on user experience
These are qualitative improvements which are extremely unlikely to stem from quantitative metrics, especially when the sample size is not significant (which it is for the vast majority of pages in existence).
With true analytics, understanding typical session helps you optimising users workflow, making sure relevant features are easily discovered at the right place.
It really helps when you want to work on user experience. You may need metrics such as LCP, INP and CLS with details per type of page, ability to drill down data and get that in real time.
ROI of such script depends on what you do with the data. If that's vanity or not even looked at, you are emitting CO2 for nothing.