User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: July 11, 2016/@comment-24473195-20160713113816/@comment-5558012-20160713145438

I've complained a few times about these stats showing nothing because I create charts showing contributions, views, pages, etc for the wiki, granted I only publish them once in a yearly report. The total pageview is more useful in the long term as there's short term variation in the larger picture (though you could see the days in which the most number of people typically visit the wiki and potentially schedule features/discussions accordingly). Longer term stats also help to see how the wiki is changing in response to real life events (such as a new film or live event) or a new route the wiki might be taking after say disabling a feature. Though most Admin likely don't do what I do, I don't want to see my capability to develop longer term stats eliminated.

Special:Insights/popularpages is a tool more useful in the short term as in my experience it either doesn't change much or one page moves up very quickly. It's usefulness is seen more immediately.

I will agree though that we could use better stats such as types of edits (mobile vs desktop, visual vs. source), types of views (is mobile dominating desktop on a particular wiki?), and maybe visitor to editor ratios (could be a great long term stat as well).