Browsers now have window.navigation.addEventListener("navigate") that allows just this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation/...

> - if you want to do statistics tracking (how many hits your site gets and user journeys)

You can do all of that server-side and much more reliably at that. The only reason to do any of this tracking client-side is advertisers trusting fake number go up more than sales numbers.