I am not looking for a public counter, just want to get a feel for which posts are kicking goals. I suppose I could get some sense of it via Google Analytics.
Are there any plans to add a statistics dashboard to the main dashboard, Marc?
No help at all, I'm afraid, Marc! I am aware of what I can do with GA. My questions were (a) is there any internal way to count how many times posts have been viewed and (b) whether this functionality is going to be added in future. My guess is that the answers are (a) no and (b) no plans at this stage.