Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2007
Written by Ernesto on December 29, 20072007 is almost over so it’s time to make a list of the Top 10 “public” BitTorrent sites getting the most traffic this year. Mininova is out in the lead followed by IsoHunt and The Pirate Bay. TorrentSpy, the most popular BitTorrent site last year, has dropped down to 6th place.
The list is based on Alexa’s traffic rank, and this data was backed up by reports from quantified sites on quantcast and traffic reports from some of the site admins.
Here is the list, as of December 29, public BitTorrent sites only.
1. Mininova
Without a doubt the most visited BitTorrent site. In November, Mininova reached a milestone by entering the list of the 50 most visited websites on the Internet.
Alexa rank: 46
2. IsoHunt
IsoHunt continued to grow this year. In September they were forced to close their trackers to US traffic because of the issues they have with the MPAA, but this had no effect on the visitor count.
Alexa rank: 143
3. The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay has been in the news quite a bit this year and remains not only the most used BitTorrent tracker, but also one of the most visited BitTorrent sites. At the moment they are fighting with IsoHunt for the second place in this list.
Alexa rank: 147
4. Torrentz
Torrentz is the only “torrent site” in the top 10 that doesn’t host .torrent files. Several improvements and new features have been introduced over the past year such as a comment system, private bookmarks and a cleaner layout.
Alexa rank: 160
5. BTjunkie
BTjunkie was one of the fastest risers last year and continued to grow throughout 2007. Last month they were, like many others, forced to leave their ISP (LeaseWeb), but the transition to a new host went smoothly and didn’t result in any downtime.
Alexa rank: 445
6. TorrentSpy
TorrentSpy was the most popular BitTorrent site of 2006, but dropped to sixth place due to legal issues with the MPAA. To ensure the privacy of their users, TorrentSpy decided that it was best to block access to all users from the US, causing their traffic to plunge.
Alexa rank: 461
7. TorrentPortal
Not much news about TorrentPortal this year, but that probably is a good thing. Like most other sites they have grown quite a bit in 2007.
Alexa rank: 481
8. GamesTorrents
It’s quite a surprise to see GamesTorrents in the list of 10 most popular BitTorrent sites of 2007. This Spanish BitTorrent site had a huge dip in traffic earlier this year but managed to secure 8th place.
Alexa rank: 583
9. TorrentReactor
TorrentReactor.net has been around for quite a while, four years to be exact, and is still growing.
Alexa rank: 604
10. BTmon
BTmon was one of the newcomers in 2006, and it is the youngest BitTorrent site in the top 10 this year.
Alexa rank: 673
Honorable Mention: Demonoid
For being one of the most visited BitTorrent sites until they pulled the plug in November.
Top 5 Newcomers
1. SumoTorrent
SumoTorrent launched this April and quickly became one of the more popular BitTorrent sites.
Alexa rank: 1021
2. SeedPeer
SeedPeer launched in September and is formerly known as Meganova.
Alexa rank: 2924
3. Zoozle
A BitTorrent meta-search engine, launched in January.
Alexa rank: 2987
4. Extratorrent
Launched a year ago, it got a serious traffic boost earlier this year.
Alexa rank: 5304
5. BitTorrent.am
BitTorrent.am is also indexed by Torrentz.com, and was launched early 2007.
Alexa rank: 6903
Note: Alexa’s data gathering is not perfect. The exact figures may be not be completely accurate, but it is a great tool (especially the traffic rank) to compare sites within the same niche and to get a global impression of traffic shifts over time.
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And as with everything else something being the most popular does not equal quality.
The guy who said private sites aren’t any faster obviously thought demonoid was private.
http://www.h33t.com
number 1 in the public tracker quality charts
How the fuck did isohunt beat TPB?
NO ONE GOES TO ISOHUNT
h33t:
At a glance, your site looks decent, but I’m reluctant to try it with you always making totally nutty comments here. You really seem to be on a different planet.
[quote comment="251085"]Private sites = for paranoid sharer
I love public sites!!!
Hassle free
No need to worry about ratio
Anyone can download
Free as oxygen
Even on priate sites most user still download very slow
Your download is depending on others to upload to you
so ratio = force people to meet a 1.0 ratio which I find unnecessary in most circumstances when their are user with megaupload speed to makeup for others who just leech.
I know because I’ved used private and public… Private imho sucks.[/quote]
HELL YEAH! hehe
[quote comment="251212"]Why didnt Oink make the list as honorable mention?[/quote]
because they suck….fuck private trackers
[quote comment="251318"]Demonoid is still ranked 539.[/quote]
Demonoid.com - Demonoid.com
demonoid.com
Searchable Bittorrent tracker and forum.
Demonoid.com has a traffic rank of: 539
Still 8th!
when is the top 10 torrent blogs going to be arriving ? That would be nice!
STILL BUMMED ABOUT DEMONOID
It was a great site, had a community that *really* commented on downloads unlike other sites where people download and rarely comment. Community was so good I didn’t even virusscan the stuff. I’d just look in the comments. Also they had lots of technical and programming resources, where other sites are mostly just movies, music and warez.
Shame on Deimos for not relaunching elsewhere. To hell with “keeping the community together”. If he wants to retire that’s fine, but let someone else pick up the banner.
> Demonoid.com has a traffic rank of: 539 Still 8th!
There are many torrents still running detached! No tracker, but users keep them alive.
Deimos… turn … it … back … on!
I can’t believe you seriously think Deimos can just flip a switch.
Hosting costs money, and he’s under huge pressure from a very powerful industry. The Pirate Bay make hosting a BitTorrent tracker LOOK easy, but it’s really not.
Zoozle sucks big time.
SUMOTorrent will soon be available in Spanish and other languages, so you will see in this top10 very soon :)
Guess it all depends of what source you use. Quantcast is as follows (for example):
1.piratebay.org
Rank: 272
2.torrentportal.com
Rank: 3965
3.torrentz.com
Rank: 3984
4.isohunt.com
Rank: 4242
5 btmon.com
Rank: 8657
6.torrentspy.com
Rank: 19854
7.torrentbox.com
Rank: 47206
8.h33t.com
Rank: 375761
9.mininova.com
Rank: 1184229
10.gamestorrent.com
Rank: 4947001
TorrentFreak, if you are aware that Alexa’s data is flawed then stop using the damn thing!
i agree. isohunt stinks. i made the mistake of downloading transformers from the site once. it was 900MB of fake shit. after that i limit myself to pirate bay and if needed, torrentz.com
i agree. isohunt stinks. i made the mistake of downloading transformers from the site once. it was 900MB of fake shit. after that i limit myself to pirate bay and if needed, torrentz.com
i would love to know the ranking methodology of Alexa. it’s definitely screwed.
sumo torrent has lots of fake( 100% for porn—only DRM files r present). tpb and mininova should b the only ones u must ever visit.
im gay
best torrent site of 07 is torrentfreak
[quote comment="251607"]Guess it all depends of what source you use. Quantcast is as follows (for example):
1.piratebay.org
Rank: 272
…
9.mininova.com
Rank: 1184229
[/quote]
Actually it’s mininova.ORG: Rank: 267
Oink For Life.
The list is BS given that it’s based on deeply flawed alexa rankings. Furthermore, it’s not really meaningful given that loads of torrents on Mininova use TPB’s trackers which in traffic terms only counts towards Mininova.
i use scrapetorrent.com which searches and returns results from the most popular torrent sites like mininova and btjunkie and piratebay and torrent spy etc. which saves me from going to all these sites individually
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