Hey @rene-michaels,
Initiating a refresh would have the same impact on your analytics as if an end-user manually refreshed their website. Since many analytics can be configured to keep track of sessions, there’s no single answer that’s specific to Force Refresh. If a visitor manually refreshes their browser and your analytics setup registers that as two visits, then the same will happen when initiating a refresh.
On the second question, if you’re referring to native browser cacheing features (i.e., static assets) no, this plugin does not affect those. This plugin imitates a user manually refreshing their browser which will not, under normal circumstances, re-retrieve locally cached static assets. The only circumstances it would re-retrieve those would be if the cache control headers on your assets required re-retrieving, but that’s outside of the scope of this plugin.
Let me know if you have any other questions!