I do not believe that it is about views; a random piece of garbage can receive up to a million views with fewer than ten comments. Therefore, having a million views with less active members is not a good sign. The first important stage in obtaining a local board is the number of current members; you cannot award a local board based on its membership nine years ago or on the fact that it is the oldest and most popular board. com'on this is not Youtube 
I think you misunderstood when I said statistics! I don't mean the statistics that are presented here in the forum in each topic. This is irrelevant, because if I open the post 100 times, it will get 100 more views. Those statistics are of little value, for what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about internal statistics, which are not seen by users, server statistics. The server statistics list where the actual views to the site come from, which countries they see, how long they are on the site, and which topics are viewed the most.
This data can be much more relevant to the creation of a local board than the data we all have access to, which are very limited and imprecise.