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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Aha! Just as I thought…
So Demonoid is now completely down?
Funny to see Mininova on top while TPB dominates the news. It’s my favorite too, for simple reasons.
* Looks far less bloated than TPB
* Has a lot of torrents
* Almost no fake torrents
Hope it stays on top unlike the 2006 most popular one.
Ive been using Mininova a couple of years now and always preferred there clean interface to other sites. If they go down so does my world!
4. Torrentz
Alexa rank: 160
5. BTjunkie
Alexa rank: 445
lol dropp from 4′th to 5′th place :)
Nice list! Now if only you had a top ten “private” trackers. That would be even better.
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.
Ya sure but mininova doesnt fight anything for the torrent community and TPB do everything for us… also mininova delete a torrent if its copyright holder send them a mail that just makes me wanna vomit!! i really hope that this stats arent accurate! TPB FTW!!
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i see the nazi are in control of this website as well
Just wanna let ya know that this site pisses me off!
Have a nice day.
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* Almost no fake torrents
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ROFLOL
Poor, poor Demonoid.
I still think that TPB is the worlds largest tracker that tracks the most peers. These statistics must be wrong!
IMHO mininova is incredible boring looking and I hate their covard asses, they listen to much to copyright holders they got no spines!
[quote comment="251079"]Now if only you had a top ten “private” trackers. That would be even better.[/quote]
Well guess no.1 and no.2 went down this year =[
Why didnt Oink make the list as honorable mention?
Ranking based on alexa = worthless
Thanks anyway…
[quote comment="251142"][quote comment="251065"]
* Almost no fake torrents
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ROFLOL[/quote]
Agreed…
mininova is just playing it safe and buying time, if they cooperate then they can last longer, you can still get copyrighted material off of there.
[quote comment="251212"]Why didnt Oink make the list as honorable mention?[/quote]
Exactly … i’m still crying.
[quote comment="251212"]Why didnt Oink make the list as honorable mention?[/quote]
because oink was private….I guess u thought demonoid was private too? well it wasn’t
RIP suprnova
Demonoid is still ranked 539.
Yeah Mininova is my favourite site, Demonoid gone but not forgtten RIP
This one should be on the list
http://torrentstorage.com
[quote]This one should be on the list[/quote]
The list is for most popular.
But why does that site use the Demonoid layout but with the BSD Daemon instead of the Demonoid demon? :P
zoozle is poo poo
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