Tracking hits/page views is not a bad idea, but most of the time the quality of the visitors (i.e. do they read, vote and comment?) is as important the quantity, if not more important.
Also, I don't entirely trust view counts as some social media sites — assuming posts are shared to external social media — will "ping" your page count every time the link is exposed in someone's feed.
But still, an interesting metric.
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Could be a great little app on Hive, to track all traffic generated here. Not just by one front end.