Hey yall ..
Obligatory mention that distrowatch rankings, at best, simply report how many times a certain distrowatch page was visited. Nothing more or less.
That means it doesnt actually mean almost anything. Except which pages, for people that use distrowatch - which is a specific set of newbies for the most part - have the most traffic. Which could even correlate to some sort of interest or drama.
They in no way equate to overall reputation or current user count or similar.
Finally I will quote DW itself;