Very interesting!
I feel concerned as I posted two weeks ago a tutorial, that didnt concern many people here. But I cross-posted it on reddit where it went "viral", and because reddit do not handle gif well and has shitty markdown compared to SteemPeak, some people had render issues and I redirected then to my SteemPeak post.
So I would not be surprised that even if it has few votes, it had lot more external visitors.
You can see both posts here : https://biglink.to/ctm7

But I don't feel like advertising high viewed posts would be a great idea, atleast for me, as I don't really like this revenue way.

Anyway, thank you for this post :)