Is it true that the "View statistics" are being generated by the HitCounters extension?
If you e.g. watch https://en.intactiwiki.org/wiki/Special:Statistics you see this section prior to the "Most viewed pages" section which indeed reflects the hits counted by HitCounters since 2021-03-22. If so, then no other global hits counter tool might be necessary to track the total hits of a mediawiki installation, right?
I just ask this because I didn't find any information about the side-effects of HitCounters to the SpecialPages:Statistics.