BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth

Written by Ernesto on March 22, 2008 

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 2007

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.

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51 Mar 23, 2008 at 09:34 by Cain

[quote comment="316767"]Legit Torrents has also show massive growth![/quote]

Growth in what ? Font ?
I didn’t make up the torrent stats I posted.

52 Mar 23, 2008 at 09:42 by most_uniQue

Thanks to MPAA/RIAA/IFPI for keeping torrent sites in headlines so they could get much free advertising as possible!!! Love you guys<3

53 Mar 23, 2008 at 10:00 by Anonymous

[quote comment="316757"]what.cd staff

use user donations

to buy

seedboxes

lol[/quote]

Oh My God!!!

54 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:23 by Amateur Gam3r

Wow, I just tried out YouTorrent and it is really good. I’m impressed by the interface. :D

55 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:33 by Sylar

[quote comment="316745"][quote=macd] Blah Blah Blah ..some bollocks Blah Blach![/quote]

My my arnt you the sarcastic one.

I wasnt trying to be egotistical, I was just stating FACTS! and stand by everything i said!

Basically..
New releases = FTP,NG,Private BT
Old releases or rare stuff = Public BT

Most public sites are where newbies start off, and file sharers like limewire etc are where complete newbies start off.

Not been offensive or anything JUST STATING FACTS!

A top 25 Private sites would be allot more useful then this top 25 public.[/quote]

I don’t know what a private tracker is and don’t care. Public ones are good enough for me, and the majority I suspect. Who needs 1-1 share crap of latest releases? And who wants to join up with something anyway even if it were free, but especially for a fee. I rarely want new releases, and NEVER want overbloated gigantic sized movies. If I want that I’ll copy a DVD. Much simpler, quicker, and cheaper.

56 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:39 by Mitch Bainwol

[quote comment="316827"]Thanks to MPAA/RIAA/IFPI for keeping torrent sites in headlines so they could get much free advertising as possible!!! Love you guys<3[/quote]

We do what we can ;)

57 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:46 by Mitch Bainwol

My current project is a much needed new million dollar security system update for my home residence, heheh

58 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:48 by Mitch

Thanks guys for all your support with your out-of-court settlements btw. Every bit helps a starving pauper ;)

59 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:55 by RI

Mitch you bitch. Get outa here pronto! Didn’t we warn you about inhaling too many office glue fumes!?

60 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:59 by Mitch the bitch

Luv ya guys, come have a drink wiv me!

61 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:05 by Bert Newton

Wow great! I had no idea that all these existed. Thanks so much, and now maybe I’ll have a much better chance of getting stuff I’m looking for.

62 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:09 by Anonymous

i don’t know why people like so much youtorrent. security seem to be not there priority because we can inject html code and execute javacript files/functions via the search bar!!!

here an example -> http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/64/youtorrentjt5.jpg

63 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:39 by Anonymous

Private Trackers = [TRAP | elitist crap]

The public trackers don’t give you a false sense of security and they show to the world that we’re all “pirates”. If it wasn’t for corrupted governments, police, lawyers and judges non-commercial file-sharing (which isn’t piracy in the least after all) would have been declared as absolutely clean and legal back in the days of FTP file-sharing.

64 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:51 by Anonymous

“If I were you, I’d play on the safe side; go with Ron Paul”

Exactly. If every of the lazy cowards who says “elections are useless, he can’t win anyway” WOULD ACTUALLY vote for him, he’d win for sure with 80% ahead of the competition. It’s really that simple. I believe even US Americans have still enough functional brain cells for multiple-choice.

Whether he’s actually better than others, nobody knows but nothing is worse than Bush. Obama vs. Hillary vs. McCain is like one monkey against the other. Do you really want to keep on letting MONkEYs run and ruin your country? Really I don’t care that much what US Americans bring upon themselves but leave the rest of the world out of it. Okay? Also you can keep your movies and TV series to yourself. I don’t fricking care. I don’t buy them. I don’t download them.

65 Mar 23, 2008 at 15:06 by fyver

Another torrentsite to add to the list :p
http://www.freakytorrent.com/

Like already mentioned the industry would need to make a site where we can download cheap movies,music,…
Thad would be good because it’s easyer to buy from the original maker of it.
They also seek it themselves by making all the publicity around torrents.
because of thad more and more people start to use torrents.
(sorry for my bad english i’m from belgium)

66 Mar 23, 2008 at 15:57 by Ben Jones

[quote comment="316943"]“If I were you, I’d play on the safe side; go with Ron Paul”

Exactly. If every of the lazy cowards who says “elections are useless, he can’t win anyway” WOULD ACTUALLY vote for him, he’d win for sure with 80% ahead of the competition. It’s really that simple. I believe even US Americans have still enough functional brain cells for multiple-choice.

Whether he’s actually better than others, nobody knows but nothing is worse than Bush. Obama vs. Hillary vs. McCain is like one monkey against the other. Do you really want to keep on letting MONkEYs run and ruin your country? Really I don’t care that much what US Americans bring upon themselves but leave the rest of the world out of it. Okay? Also you can keep your movies and TV series to yourself. I don’t fricking care. I don’t buy them. I don’t download them.[/quote]
quote]
I actually did some research on this, when the Pirate Party of the Us released their endorsement of Obama two months ago. Only two campaigns would even return my emails - paul and obama. Paul’s campaign was for stricter enforcement of copyright (it’s in the constitution, and violation of it is therefore a constitutional violation, and should be dealt with harsher) whilst Obama seemed to be fairly open to it.

I am 100% with you on the so-called ‘tactical voting’ though.

67 Mar 23, 2008 at 17:04 by Anon

Avoid using YouTorrent, they selectively filter out certain search terms

68 Mar 23, 2008 at 17:06 by larnc

Torrentspy should NOT be anywhere near the top 25 since they refuse to allow US visitors by using the lame excuse about the uncertain legal issues.

69 Mar 23, 2008 at 17:50 by =]

[quote comment="316291"]I attribute the rise of certain torrent sites to the demise of Demonoid[/quote]
i loved that site :(

70 Mar 23, 2008 at 20:28 by Anonymous

Hey guys,

Another site that is worth checking: http://www.direct-movies.com

Cool site like OscarTorrent

71 Mar 23, 2008 at 23:25 by steveballmer

I’d love to see all of them explode!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

72 Mar 24, 2008 at 05:31 by =]

[quote comment="317192"]I’d love to see all of them explode!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/quote

couldnt come up with anything better then explode? what a shity troll you are…

73 Mar 24, 2008 at 13:21 by Anonymous

agree with u …it’ll continue to grow

chk dis out
http://www.viewmablogs.blogspot.com/

74 Mar 24, 2008 at 21:28 by ArtyTorrent

How is torrentfreak.com doing on Alexa? That would be more indicative in the growth of file-sharing.

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