All our news items and articles are tracked and rated with a figure given to demonstrate the popularity percentage for each post and page.
The popularity display you see:
Popularity: 27% [?]
is the rank of that post or page compared to the other posts and pages on the site.
Since page view counts, etc. are cumulative, newer posts will generally have lower popularity values than older posts. This, of course, evens out over time.
Popularity: 1% [?]