When a viewing a blog post, it would be useful to see how many times the post has been read. This is important information when figuring out what kind of content people want to read, what posts were succesful, etc.
Upvotes are one thing, but they don't tell the whole story, and it would be helpful for posters to be able study the anount of upvotes relative to the amount of total readers.
In the end, this would help out the entire community beause content creators would have a better understanding of what kinds of posts the users value, so they could better offer them that value.