BitSmash Launches BitTorrent Statistics Tool
Written by Ernesto on October 06, 2008BitSmash is a new service that aims to provide statistics on all BitTorrent downloads. The site allows users to search from keywords, just like the average BitTorrent site, and sort the results in various ways. For every torrent, it also shows graphs of changes in various statistics over time.
BitSmash will be launched officially on October 15th, but the website is already fully operational. The project looks promising, and might prove to be a great tool for those who are interested in BitTorrent trends, including ourselves. One of the major downsides at the moment, however, is the accuracy of some of the statistics that are reported by BitSmash.
We’ve gone through the data, and it seems that BitSmash is off on the numbers of seeds and peers. One of the top downloads according to the service is The Incredible Hulk, with 414 peers and 139 seeders. However, Mininova and several other BitTorrent sites report that the torrent has more than 15,000 peers, and a manual scrape of one of the trackers returned close to 18,000 peers.
The service is of course still being developed, so these numbers might be corrected later. Smash, the founder of the project told us: “I’m going to stand by our numbers,” but said he will take a look at the inconsistencies. He encourages everyone to submit feedback while the site is in Beta.
Interestingly, BitSmash has decided to include a link to the .torrent files on their detail pages, which basically makes it a meta-search engine as well. The anti-piracy lobby might not be too happy about that. A few days ago we reported on the Swedish news site Nyheter24, that was criticized for linking to torrents on The Pirate Bay.
The service will officially launch October 15th, and later this year there will also be an API available for other services and websites to access, who can use the data for other purposes. Overall we think that BitSmash could develop into a great research tool. It’s worth checking out.
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sweet
Well do!
and how would this help
doesnt mininova and tpb have the statistics right above or below the the torrent link
The mainstream culture is all a sham. People should be using BitTorrent downloads as a mark for popularity rather than how much things are sold.
@3
It would be more than just seeds and peers, and it would not just be limited to torrents on a single website or tracker.
Roze
http://www.28chan.org/fs/ <- File-sharing discussion board
I must say, looks like shit.
Mininova’s statistics aren’t very accurate, either, though…
horrible design. eod.
Looks interesting, but I would like a “general trend” sorta search – like the top ten movie downloads, and the top ten tv-series etc. Preferably gathered from a concoction of all the major public tracker sites.
That would be interesting to see.
Statistics for individual torrents are fine, by all means, but I don’t really see how this is gonna be a “revolution” – this information is also easily obtainable directly from the torrent-sites.
Anyone have an idea as to where I can get a aggregated result from the major sites together?
Great idea.
This sounds like a straight up TRAP!
we dont care
torrent is for newbies
its virus
waitin’ fo’ opensourcing and API
ummm and WE NEED THIS WHY?
yes lets make more spy tools.
convoluted mess.
http://www.lucidvain.co.nr
the site looks like sh!i!t
Outstanding! BitSmash ROCKS!@
Jiff
http://www.anonweb.eu.tc
It’s not anything special
Noobs. How’s it a trap to show in graph form the same tracker and peer stats available on any other site? How is it a trap to track those stats over time to show trends? You’re all a bunch of whining dumbasses.
what a waste of time, it only works on public trackers, its not accurate,so what is the point?
Take a look at this search: http://bitsmash.com/info/SE5I5HL6VKHOJT2WFVX3MMNQLMGN5DUL/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Kingdom+of+the+Crystal+Skull+DVDR/
then click on blacklist. actually shows MediaSentry/ DSL.net and the NEED for peerguardian.
what was that?
If it works, it just tracks the statistics, and then the MPAA/RIAA would have a database to mine information to sue people off of, not to mention to have average availability would imply the site actually loaded the torrent and downloaded it, which means they can get sued.
If anyone can inform whoever updates blacklists to block this site/related, thanks!
at last a site that looks worse than h33t LOL
what is the point of a shite site with a stats history? errrmmmmmmm dunno
http://www.h33t.com where we do bad real bad
@24: They say,
“IP Addresses”, network ports, and other private information is not shared.
“Not shared” doesn’t mean “not stored”. Unless they say they don’t store IP statistics better add them to PeerGuardian just in case.
@26: Some people (like me) block all banners / disable javascript / flash / plugins / iframes / etc. for most websites that don’t provide a service that really deppends on those. As long as a website provides something usefull it may even look like a FTP listing.
@22
that right there is what changed my mind about this website. that is awesome
lol, see the stats on axxo… its far off…
Well, it’s not as wide spread as torrentz.com…
Its amazing how I hear so much about all these other sites, and yet the best search engine is: http://www.torrentz.com and the best trackers are if you download it from btmon
Maybe it’ll expand…I’ll probably check it every now and then, though I guess I am a bit worried about it also. I’d be interested in hearing more if people learn about it’s statistic/logging policy.
Arg.. They should work on design.
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