Yeah, it means people are interested in Peppermint.
Interestingly, a lot of the ones on that list aren't the "top" distros DW, in terms of page hits. That means that, while people may be clicking on the pages for distros like Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora, etc., it seems that people are actually talking more about smaller projects like Peppermint. It's probably due to that more personal touch that you get with smaller distros. That's one thing I love about this distro. You're on here constantly making sure fires are put out, and your releases aren't "release it now, fix it later" releases, like you see in a lot of the bigger distros. You listen to user input and really try to come up with something that multiple people will enjoy. I'm sure that's attractive to a lot of people, especially people coming from Windows and OSX, where changes are implemented no matter who objects, and there's really no interaction with the end user by the people in the corporation. Even larger distros like Ubuntu and Fedora may come a bit too close to that level for a lot of people. So, that's probably why a lot of people are searching out and talking about distros like Peppermint and a lot of the other top trending distros.