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

Has wikia staff given any thought to simply disabling that admin "pageviews feature". It is often buggy, and I suspect it causes dozens of reports per month for something that admins can't really do anything about. If you have 500000 views one week, and 200000 views the next, what exactly can you do? Perhaps if this was linked to a chart, showing monthly contributions, or page deletions or even edit warring, it could then be something admins / contributors could do something about.

In my opinion it should be simply removed from the admin console, and a total counter added to the insights / community special pages, and yes, I'm 100% certain someone will complain, just as they do now when those stats fail (I've seen a user complaining here on CC seemingly every time the stats go down).

The feature in insights is way more useful, because it gives a glimpse to what is becoming popular, and what pages may benefit from improving in case they are popular but really really low quality or stubs. In fact, I've improved pages exactly because of insights, and the top nav indicating its popularity.

 M uch better stats that Admins and regular users CAN do something about is mobile edits vs desktop edits. For example, a good summary of  pages that are popular on mobile vs Desktop and could benefit from users improving them. Insights is a very well conceived idea, but it is severely lacking in simple curation tools.