The number of inversions of a permutation. This equals the minimal number of simple transpositions $(i,i+1)$ needed to write $\pi$. Thus, it is also the Coxeter length of $\pi$.

The number of valleys of a Dyck path not on the x-axis. That is, the number of valleys of nonminimal height. This corresponds to the number of -1's in an inclusion of Dyck paths into alternating sign matrices.

The number of small exceedances. This is the number of indices $i$ such that $\pi_i=i+1$.

The number of ascents of a permutation.

The number of global descents of a permutation. The global descents are the integers in the set $$C(\pi)=\{i\in [n-1] : \forall 1 \leq j \leq i < k \leq n :\quad \pi(j) > \pi(k)\}.$$ In particular, if $i\in C(\pi)$ then $i$ is a descent. For the number of global ascents, see [[St000234]].

The staircase size of the code of a permutation. The code $c(\pi)$ of a permutation $\pi$ of length $n$ is given by the sequence $(c_1,\ldots,c_{n})$ with $c_i = |\{j > i : \pi(j) < \pi(i)\}|$. This is a bijection between permutations and all sequences $(c_1,\ldots,c_n)$ with $0 \leq c_i \leq n-i$. The staircase size of the code is the maximal $k$ such that there exists a subsequence $(c_{i_k},\ldots,c_{i_1})$ of $c(\pi)$ with $c_{i_j} \geq j$. This statistic is mapped through [[Mp00062]] to the number of descents, showing that together with the number of inversions [[St000018]] it is Euler-Mahonian.

The number of minimal elements in Bruhat order not less than the permutation. The minimal elements in question are biGrassmannian, that is $$1\dots r\ \ a+1\dots b\ \ r+1\dots a\ \ b+1\dots$$ for some $(r,a,b)$. This is also the size of Fulton's essential set of the reverse permutation, according to [ex.4.7, 2].

The number of exclusive left-to-right maxima of a permutation. This is the number of left-to-right maxima that are not right-to-left minima.

The length of the longest pattern of the form k 1 2...(k-1).

The number of stack-sorts needed to sort a permutation. A permutation is (West) $t$-stack sortable if it is sortable using $t$ stacks in series. Let $W_t(n,k)$ be the number of permutations of size $n$ with $k$ descents which are $t$-stack sortable. Then the polynomials $W_{n,t}(x) = \sum_{k=0}^n W_t(n,k)x^k$ are symmetric and unimodal. We have $W_{n,1}(x) = A_n(x)$, the Eulerian polynomials. One can show that $W_{n,1}(x)$ and $W_{n,2}(x)$ are real-rooted. Precisely the permutations that avoid the pattern $231$ have statistic at most $1$, see [3]. These are counted by $\frac{1}{n+1}\binom{2n}{n}$ ([[OEIS:A000108]]). Precisely the permutations that avoid the pattern $2341$ and the barred pattern $3\bar 5241$ have statistic at most $2$, see [4]. These are counted by $\frac{2(3n)!}{(n+1)!(2n+1)!}$ ([[OEIS:A000139]]).