Why the view calculator?

I’ve started asking myself why I’ve put a view calculator on the project thumbnails for my new site. Honestly, I just wanted to learn how to do it in wordpress. It’s useful for myself also, to track how many people are checking the site out. I’m not big into Google Analytics, simply because I don’t get much traffic on my site. So, yes, it’s unnecessary, but as I see things happening on other sites, I want to try them. Every time I push myself to learn simple new things, I find myself using the skills I’ve acquired for clients. Ultimately my goal is to be prepared when a client requests something.