Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2007

Written by Ernesto on December 29, 2007 

2007 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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172 Responses

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151 Mar 23, 2008 at 10:27 by Ram

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152 Mar 24, 2008 at 08:58 by Mike

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153 Mar 28, 2008 at 00:36 by Sonny

This one should be up there http://MeTorrents.com , it is a great site I just recently found.

154 Apr 04, 2008 at 03:19 by bob along

“private trackers insure that you wont get caught. i know of people who used the bjunkies of the world only to have thier service disconnected because the mpaa monitored thier i.p. and turned them in to thier i.s.p. provider. the private sites im on i get 1.2 mb speeds>>>:)

155 Apr 10, 2008 at 09:17 by Pixxi79

I would sugget http://www.multitorrent.org

156 Apr 12, 2008 at 07:25 by spwanasin

seriously.. the best torrent website is revolutiontt…. ok it dosnt have EVERYTHING on it… .but its amazing for movies/games/and TV shows.. and it so much faster then any public tracker..

157 Apr 13, 2008 at 02:59 by beyes

yeah its gud.. which is the best torrent site for movies.

158 Apr 30, 2008 at 19:29 by madjack

http://www.madjack.com

come join need uploader thanks

159 May 05, 2008 at 19:27 by skagman

[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]

public: yeh and full of fake torrents dipshit and on private sites speeds are very high i never get below 400kb/s on new torrents. You are very fucking thick probably get 1 real download out of every 10 one of those that download a dvdrip of a movie when the cam or anything else hasn’t been out hence a fake fuckin dumb worm!

160 May 14, 2008 at 17:14 by login

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161 May 21, 2008 at 00:49 by Smcqueen

Hey wheres my beloved torrentvalley.com? So many music and movies there its a shame that it isn’t on the list.

162 May 21, 2008 at 21:15 by miguel angel

A mi me gusta bajarme de esta, la puse en mis favoritos desde que la encontré.
Tiene varias opciones para descargar de lo último que sale..
muy actualizada y recomendada x torrenteros

http://www.bittorrents.es

Ah, es sin registro..

(si os ayudo en algo me alegro..)

saludos

163 May 23, 2008 at 21:03 by pirate kid !

I use only mininova and demonoid !

164 Jun 28, 2008 at 13:24 by alexa site ranking

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165 Jul 16, 2008 at 21:14 by Steven

no demonoid is back!

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