Steps to reproduce the issue

• Start a site
• Test some pages, walk through them, have a crawler inspect missing alt tags, etc.
• Put the site in production
• Articles have hits on them already, bots count as hits, ddos count as hits...

Expected result

A way to enable/disable activity tracking (hits) for the site
A way to reset hits.
A way to not use hits at all (preferable during the installation so not a single hit gets registered)

Actual result

There's no way (outside of DB queries or third-party extensions) to remove the hit tracking, to enable/disable it for a while.

System information (as much as possible)

Every Joomla that has hits
Every server
Every config

Additional comments

In a time where almost every big site uses GA or equivalents the "just hit tracking" seems obsolete. It may be handy for small sites that don't want to use JS or tracking scripts, but for bigger sites it means more DB queries than necessary, and weird counters in the back don't represent actual people visiting the site.