I like to know what readers find interesting on this Blog – so that I can see if the information is what they are after and whats hot at the moment. You can get some of this from the statistics and utilisation plugins mentioned here.
So a plugin for WordPress comes in very handy – Popularity Contest
This will enable ranking of your posts by popularity; using the behavior of your visitors to determine each post’s popularity. You set a value (or use the default value) for every post view, comment, etc. and the popularity of your posts is calculated based on those values.
Once you have activated the plugin, you can configure the Popularity Values and View Reports.
You can also use the author included Template Tags to display post popularity and lists of popular posts on your blog.