BitTorrent Trio Hit a Billion Pageviews a Month
Written by Ernesto on June 11, 2008Following Mininova and The Pirate Bay, isoHunt is now the third BitTorrent site to enter the list of top 100 most visited websites on the Internet. Together the three sites generate more than a billion pageviews a month and they continue to grow.
Most recently, isoHunt managed to get a spot among the 100 120 most visited domains on the Internet, according to Alexa’s new and improved statistics.
Isohunt - the third largest BitTorrent site with 350.000.000 pageviews a month - is one of the older BitTorrent sites and predates both The Pirate Bay and Mininova. The site started in January 2003, and added support for torrents by the end of that year just a few months after the BitTorrent protocol went public.
At the time, no-one could have guessed that BitTorrent sites would ever become as dominant as they are now. Gary Fung, the founder of isoHunt didn’t foresee it either, as he told TorrentFreak: “I never expected the site to grow to this volume initially, until we started seeing explosive growth with the uptake of BitTorrent.”
About the future of his site Fung said: “By indexing any and all BitTorrent links, we expect to grow as much as usage of BitTorrent would.” Right now, there is no sign that BitTorrent’s usage will stop growing, so it is safe to say that like any other BitTorrent site, isoHunt will keep on growing.
Another interesting observation is that The Pirate Bay has outgrown Mininova traffic wise. For over a year Mininova has been the most visited BitTorrent site, but now - for the first time ever - The Pirate Bay is in the lead.
Update: apparently there was a glitch in the traffic rank numbers, they are back to normal right now and show that Mininova is still in the lead. We corrected the graph and the figures below. The title of the article is still correct, as it is based on direct reports.
Today’s rankings show that The Pirate Bay is 90th in the list of 100 120 most visited websites, Mininova 51st and isoHunt comes in 119th place. With the current growth rate of BitTorrent sites, Torrentz.com will probably join these three sites in a few weeks.
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37 Responses
Cool. :)
ISOHunt is the shit.
Isohunt - the third largest BitTorrent site with 350.000 pageviews a month
Maybe 350 000 a day, not month? My page have 1 mln pageview dailly and is in alexa 5000
just shows how many people pirate, three BT sites are in the top 100 :D
only a matter of time before we start seeing private trackers
“only a matter of time before we start seeing private trackers”
ACTUAL LOL
Alexa Data still sucks…
Nicely said #7, and Alexa doesn’t take in to consideration people who access torrents directly through BT clients. Nice figures even though I hate Alexa.
This just doesn’t feel very newsworthy to me. Could you make the story a little more interesting? Anyone can go to Alexa themselves if they want to grb hold of some statistics.
“Anyone can go to Alexa themselves if they want to grb hold of some statistics.”
When you get back with those statistics, let us know where your site is so we can read your analysis and see how you would editorialize this simple reporting of the facts.
Between now and then, quit bitching about free content you didn’t create that someone else took time to publish.
Demonoid was probably one of the biggest trackers before the CRIA incident. I remember finding everything on there that was on no other site.
Yehaa! Gogogogo!
This is getting out of hand! Ahahahahaaaaaa
Is Torrentz.com a valid BT site?
demonoid still is huge and although its impossible for this to happen but if it went public and maintained the quality that we all know and love it would beat mininova.
Demonoid is practically public already. Anyone can get on it.
Who cares about isohunt?
They dont run there own tracker they are just a index or other sites torrents
Bid deal?….
dear Anonymous
Everyone helps the BT network in there own way. How would u like to use kazza/napster with no searh feature. Not to mention the fact that comment pages are highly important unless you are an R-tard and downloads anything from any source…
demonoid is good and they are back on the line….
we will see isohunt or mininova.:)
@17
They bring no significant resources to the torrent community.The trackers allready have their own indexes why do they need a third party ,off site index?
The answer is they DONT.
The indexes only contain PUBLIC torrents so why not go to the site and download it? instead of using a thirdparty site
There are NO private sites in these indexes(and there wont ever be) so the purpose of re-indexers are to make there own profit and think they are helping people when in reality they do nothing but hurt the trackers site by not giving them the orginal traffic in the first place
NONE TRACKER INDEXES NEED TO DIE!
I use ISOHunt from time to time. The truth is that I found there, and there only, a thing I was looking for. There are other well known trackers besides PB and Mininova.
Mininova ban me for nothing :| I’m nothing uploaded, nothing commnented just downloading torrents… When i click on report button on torrent with virus then they automatically ban me. :|:|:| wtf?! Try to contact to this admin mathjis on IRC - it’s impossible! I’m waiting 3 days and noone respond! F*** Mininova i’m back to Demonoid he is REAL TORRENT KING!
Btw. TF Could you ask new Demonoid team when they launch forum and what’s about future on site (some new features etc.)? :) thnx!
Demonoid started getting shit around early 2006 if I remember right, if you talk of quality and Demonoid in the same sentence you should probably just stop using a computer all together. I could go on, but Demonoid isn’t really worth the effort.
and u r propably from shit.cd… ^^
Hip Hip…
Torrent is a perfect name, a Tsunami washing everything in its path! No way the AntiPirate mob can stop torrents now, page numbers to rival commercial sales outlets and search engines! Go piracy!
I used isohunt for mirc back in the day, way to go
Isohunt is a torrent search engine. Tracker sites may have an index of THEIR torrents, but unless you want to visit every tracker site on the internet looking for a torrent in particular, Isohunt serve a legitimate purpose. That is to collect and list all torrents from all public trackers in one place and update those torrents to include all trackers available for those particular torrents. If you go to TPB, their torrent only contain their tracker urls, but what if there is another tracker with the same torrent that has more seeds? If you got the same torrent from isohunt, it would contain TPB trackers and all other trackers tracking that torrent. If there is a tracker with more seeds that TPB, you can use that tracker rather than waiting for DHT to source all possible peers.
Also, Isohunt runs 2 trackers.
Nice reply #28
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What scares me is that mininova and isohunt are not running their own trackers, instead they both rely heavily on the The Pirate Bay. If there weren’t the bay with its trackers mininova and isohunt weren’t anywhere near where they are now.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to see these sites on top, but I think it should be mentioned a bit more often that these site are dependent of The Pirate Bay. Therefore for me TPB is still on top, and will be probably as long as other big sites start to run their own trackers.
mininova is going to have forum son, is that right?
Yeah Dave, soon they’ll have. they’kk announce it
Review community
Ahhhh, BT rocks doesnt it? LOL
JT
http://www.Privacy-center.net
#31 you retard,
..lol @ “dependant on pirate bay” … anyone who knows anything will know that is complete bullshit,… there’s frigging /hundreds/ of trackers which get indexed in isohunt.. Mininova gives you about 5 trackers to choose from if you dont already have an alternative.
Saying isohunt and mininova are dependant on the pirate bay is like saying all birds are fish eating penguins.
i don’t like isohunt!
I prefere mininova and the piratepay
Thanks.
oh really???? mininova is the best site to download movies!!!!
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