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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[quote comment="258567"][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]
Nahh, I’m straight so I don’t want a gay guy to contact me. ;-)
the best private sites really suck
cause no one will let u in???
[quote comment="252113"]I miss demonoid, it was the best. It WAS private, you had to get invited or get into the signup window time, which was only for 12 hours every 30 days or so.
Demonoid had no fakes at all, because they had great reporting system, as well as a great user system. I want it back. Mininova is great, the pirate bay is next. BTJunkie is getting lots of fakes now. Isohunt, they are usually good, but there is no comment system!!! The other sites are just JUNK. Too much BS[/quote]
totally agreed!. In Demonoid you could download everything and be sure it was gonna be good and there were lots of rare files. I miss them T.T
how in the world can you say that private torrent sites suck? I mean come on, mininova and btjunkie are both two great sites, but have nothing to come with against torrentleech.org, for me it’s the best site there is
I prefer private sites but have nothing against public. Private sites just make me feel safer i guess..
btw, anyone got a torrentleech.org invite they could send me?
brak@live.ca
demonid come back !!! because of this kind of shwich off world war’s are started :P !!!
[quote comment="256844"]Weeeeee! Stealing is fun and easy!
Let the artists starve![/quote]
I’m in …whos next?!….
[quote comment="256844"]Weeeeee! Stealing is fun and easy!
Let the artists starve![/quote]
Why do you search on torrentfreak if your agaisnt it? i never get asskissers like you. If you hate it so much stop searching for it!!!!
to be honest im a private tracker user for years now on level 5 trackers and the diference in public v private is immense for instance can u get imbd top250 movie packs or nearly every pack there is out there virus,spyware,fake free i dont think so.Now for speeds most private trackers use seedboxes which gives most of us our maximum speed available
public dont infact theres so much leeching it shows there is 1000 seeds but you connected at 5kbs!!!! now you dont have to just take my word try yourself here are some level one private trackers which are open for sign up but be warned if you dont upload as much as you download which you should be as this is a sharing community you will be banned.Once you are in join the forums make some friends and get invites to higher level trackers which gives you even faster speed and access to the best stuff out there.
http://p2ptalk.org/forums/torrents/105-torrent-tracker-levels-2.html
we want demanoid back!
I am using this tracker site http://www.loadevery.com . It’s a direct download tracker from sharing file site like rapidshare, megaupload, etc..
I WANT DEMONOID BACK
BEST TORRENT SITE EVER
WE WANT DEMONOID BACK!!!!
I will recommend http://pmbits.org
Is a newstarted scene tracker
I prefer http://www.torrentscript.com - A bittorrtent search aggregator which indexes 10 top torrent sites. 4.1 Million on file.
An easy, legal way to search mininova and pirate bay - http://www.PiraBoogle.com
Serbia with torrent!
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Dont go to codex creations. The owner is a racist and a worthless piece of shyte.
Dead people walk faster than the speeds of their torrents, and its supposed Scene driven. lmfao.
If you want something that every other site has, and hear a big headed owner talk about how hes the no.1 hacker in the world, the by all means, go there.
But not if youre an asian. He’ll hack you, abuse you then ban you.
Don’t forget http://www.wigornot.com, it’s one of the newest trackers out there!
Give our new site a try no rars, no zips, no passwords and no porn
http://www.bit-bytes.co.uk
free to join
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