If you think this is what the NSA was doing, you should learn more about that. While you’re doing so, ask whether there’s a difference between the owner of a site getting basic visitor information or a third-party compromising other services to get far more personal information which they would otherwise not have access to. This is the difference between me noticing what type of car you drive when you visit and constantly recording every cars’ occupants, destination, and topics of conversation in the entire city.

Finally, you’re also wrong about how sites use analytics: global stats don’t matter much compared to your actual visitors, whose demographics can vary significantly. Every site I’ve worked on since the mid-90s has found that to be important enough to do basic analytics of the sit under discussion here.