I decided to update my old #dws #distrowatch stats tool: https://github.com/smxi/dws
Mainly because they slightly changed their syntax internally, but then once I had looked at it, I decided to add a top/bottom x count of distros with a new -r option.
Everything seems to work, last 6 months, top 6:
dws -t 6 -r 6
Distrowatch.com 6 month rankings:
Manjaro: 1 (3981+)
Mint: 2 (2279-)
elementary: 3 (1804+)
MX Linux: 4 (1647+)
Ubuntu: 5 (1426-)
Debian: 6 (1080-)