BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth
BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite efforts from anti-piracy outfits such as the MPAA and IFPI, torrent sites continue to grow traffic wise, and there is no sign that this trend will be brought to a halt anytime soon.
We decided to compile a list of the 25 most popular BitTorrent sites, and see how their (relative) popularity has grown over the past three months. Out of the 25 sites in the list, 21 improved their ranking in Alexa’s list of most popular sites on the Internet.
There are a few changes in the top 10 compared to the list of 2007′s top torrent sites. Mininova is still leading the bunch, but The Pirate Bay is now in second place, in front of isoHunt. Torrentportal and TorrentReactor traded places as well, the sites are now 7th and 9th respectively.
YouTorrent is the only newcomer, and it’s really impressive that the site made it into the top 25 only 2 months after its launch.
Top 25 torrent sites March 2008
| Rank # | Torrent Site | Alexa Rank (Dec 07) | Alexa Rank (Mar 08) | Change (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | mininova.org | 63 | 53 | + 19 % |
| 2. | ThePirateBay.org | 182 | 130 | + 40 % |
| 3. | isohunt.com | 170 | 147 | + 16 % |
| 4. | Torrentz.com | 231 | 192 | + 20 % |
| 5. | BtJunkie.org | 689 | 469 | + 47 % |
| 6. | torrentspy.com | 376 | 585 | - 36 % |
| 7. | TorrentReactor.net | 909 | 616 | + 48 % |
| 8. | GamesTorrents.com | 942 | 641 | + 47 % |
| 9. | TorrentPortal.com | 699 | 697 | no change |
| 10. | btmon.com | 924 | 743 | + 24 % |
| 11. | sumotorrent.com | 1,894 | 1,101 | + 72 % |
| 12. | myBittorrent.com | 1,861 | 1,454 | + 28 % |
| 13. | animesuki.com | 1,738 | 1,473 | + 18 % |
| 14. | Fulldls.com | 1,448 | 1,646 | - 12 % |
| 15. | bitdig.com | 5,805 | 1,945 | + 300 % |
| 16. | torrentz.ws | 7,990 | 1,991 | + 400 % |
| 17. | newtorrents.info | 3,348 | 2,272 | + 47 % |
| 18. | Torrent-Finder.com | 3,404 | 2,635 | + 29 % |
| 19. | TorrentBox.com | 2,812 | 2,686 | + 5 % |
| 20. | Fenopy.com | 3,102 | 2,901 | + 7 % |
| 21. | torrentvalley.com | 5,276 | 3,014 | + 75 % |
| 22. | youtorrent.com | … | 3,107 | New! |
| 23. | TorrentReactor.to | 3,016 | 3,313 | - 9 % |
| 24. | www.zoozle.org | 4,669 | 3,369 | + 39 % |
| 25. | www.seedpeer.com | 3,992 | 3,449 | + 16 % |
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.
