To know how many times a news item has been read, which item has been read by the most people, during a given period of time, are things we like to know when we have a web page.
This is the purpose of the new 'stats' option which you will find in the news service. It gives us a list of news items ordered from the most to the least visited. Also, we can filter the result over a period of time or increase/reduce the number of results it gives us. Now you can know, for example, who makes the most popular news?
Let's put it to use!