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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mininova is really cool, and the comments are very useful
one thing to say the statics are mostly wrong since you need to install the Alexa tool bar that reports the statics and not many people want the worthless piece of junk
How does a private tracker work?, And how can I get one?
By the way, I think Demonoid was the best torrent site ever but now that it’s gone I use btjunkie, thepiratebay and mininova.
Don’t forget http://www.flixflux.co.uk
Someone just posted poll about this article: http://www.pollsb.com/polls/poll/5193/favorite-torrents-site-of-2007
Demonoid wasn’t completely public. You still had to sign up to get the older torrents. I feel like I must say this like when Ronald Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev to “Bring down that wall!” “Mr. Deimos bring back our Demonoid!”
thanks =))
Just found a great new site, wanted to share it. http://www.Torrentstorage.com The site is set up just like Demonoid, now we just need some uploaders to join and we can have Demonoid back, sort of.
A friend just told me of a new site http://www.morrent.com which just launced in Beta.
Private sites rule
public are crap, full of virus’s and fakes
LOL if u moan u only like public then its because u cant find a decent private.
I get top speeds and NO BULL$HIT
LOL public are traps
I really really miss Oink and Demonoid. Those were my big two, and between them I could always find anything I ever needed (particularly music and music app wise).
There’s a big gaping hole in my heart. 10/23, never forget.
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.
those who hate private tackers are the ones who cant get on them
i only use private trackers
and i must say i would never use a public
on private trackers i get a minimum of 700kbps download always
never have slow speeds
or no seeeds
or that shit
Poor TorrentSpy…RIP
bookmarked @ livbit
http://www.livbit.com
Weeeeee! Stealing is fun and easy!
Let the artists starve!
[quote comment="254420"]How does a private tracker work?, And how can I get one?
By the way, I think Demonoid was the best torrent site ever but now that it’s gone I use btjunkie, thepiratebay and mininova.[/quote]
Don’t contact us…we’ll contact you :P
[quote comment="251351"]This one should be on the list
http://torrentstorage.com/quote
Quit pumping your stupid Torrentstorage site in every TF story. I’ll always avoid it just because of that!
can i get the invitation of Demonoid site at abhi8sood@yahoo.com
try torrent-finder.com
excellent site
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