I was thinking about extending the Post Stats page in Admin to a more comprehensive Forum Stats which would include Post Stats, Thread View Stats, User Session Stats and all the stuff down there at the bottom of the message pane.
Another plan was to also have it all go somewhere where it can be viewed and used by all users or at the very least have it so that the Admin can generate a stats display which is viewable by the users but not updatable.
Either way it'll end up on it's own page rather than at the bottom of the message pane which means less clutter and ultimately less views which which means it doesn't update itself as often which means the number of hits against the database will go down further.