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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Now if only TPB could make their search-function half as good as mininova’s, reduced clutter and irrelevant duplicate listing we’d have a new winner again.
Personally I think TPB is swimming solely on their top 100 listing and their PR engine, while the rest of the site’s not half as accessible as i.e. mininova.
torrents.ru has Alexa rank: 470 and should be in 7th place.
10/23.. we wil never forget
I’m still looking for a good book torrent site to replace Demonoid. Any ideas, anyone?
Forget what? lol
[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]
Thanks for keeping idiots like yourself out of the private trackers.
To the other fuckheads out there: Yeah, he’s right, public is the best, private sucks.
[quote comment="251832"][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]
Thanks for keeping idiots like yourself out of the private trackers.
To the other fuckheads out there: Yeah, he’s right, public is the best, private sucks.[/quote]
Unless you like getting reliable content without question, or if you like all of your music tagged properly (no I am not refering to Oink), or you like maxing out your download bandwidth.
I dont know what kind of horrible “private” sites you have been part of, but the public sites dont even come close to the quality and speed of a good private tracker.
Poor good sites going down to US traffic
I loved torrentspy- and if I couldnt find something, demonoid had it
now I have to use torrentz :( not my favorite
[quote comment="251747"]Oink For Life.[/quote]
i hear ya.
So, you are talking about the most popular torrent sites of those infected with spyware? That’s how Alexa works, you have to install their spyware infested toolbar to be counted.
These stats are useless.
Your article should mention http://www.torrentscan.com
It’s not a site per say, but a search engine shell over all the sites your article listed.
what about supertorrents.com ?
Yeah, because Alexa rankings are notoriously reliable and should be taken at face value.
Good list, I just wish that a better metric was used.
http://www.dontwatchme.com
what about supertorrents.org
sorry
im gay too
I don’t use public trackers, like the private much more^^
@#2… Where have you been?
imo the best underground public torrent tracker for this year would have to be:
http://torrent.aushpb.net
http://tracker.aushpb.net
been using it for about 4 months now and seed/leech ratio has been almost too good
i miss Demonoid
Where is Cheggit in this list? :-)
I believe it should be pretty huge by now, isn’t it?
Hey TorrentFreak,
Maybe a better idea, rather than using unreliable rankings, would be an editorial-ish top 10… an overview of the sites that you guys feel are most worth using.
Or a list of the coolest torrent site innovations in 2007. The Pirate Bay’s tag-based music section, for example.
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