Mininova Breaks 3 Billion Downloads Barrier
Written by Ernesto on November 01, 2007Mininova reached another milestone as they just passed the 3 billion .torrent download mark. The impressive number of 3 million daily users now download almost 10 million .torrent files a day.
Mininova is by far the most visited BitTorrent site at the moment, and they are still growing. The site currently has over 3 million visitors per day which places them in the list of 100 most visited websites on the Internet.
Erik from Mininova told TorrentFreak that he expected to reach the 3 million downloads faster than this, but he’s not complaining since the current traffic numbers keep the servers busy enough. “We hope to reach the 4 billion mark in 4 or 5 months from now” he added.
Mininova continues to optimize their site and server park in order to cope with the increasing traffic. As can be seen from the graph, the 3 billion download mark was reached by the end of October, and there is no sign that the growth is slowing down any time soon. I wonder if it will ever stop.
Mininova .torrent downloads
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Just keeps on growin
Second Paragraph “3 million downloads”
Good to know torrents are growing and growing.
Good to hear. I do not like the layout of Mininova. But I know it is great for getting n00bs into torrents, so it is great that it is there to spread the word, and the content. Good luck to Mininova, keep ‘em coming.
make your mind up
was it 3 billion or 3 million?
CONSISTENCY - CAN YOU DO IT?
both
Wow…thats incredible…
[quote comment="201282"]I know its a bit Offtopic, but OiNK is back at scam.dl.am/[/quote]
I highly doubt it.
The oink domains are still owned by oink, if he was going to bring it back he wouldn’t set it up under some redirector service (dl.am).
Just another scam site.
That’s a lot of Linux distros!!!
Guys, it says 3 billion TOTAL downloads and 3 million DAILY visitors who download 10 million torrents EVERY DAY.
doh…
[quote comment="201269"]make your mind up
was it 3 billion or 3 million?
CONSISTENCY - CAN YOU DO IT?[/quote]
COMPREHENSION - CAN YOU DO IT?
duh… 3 million per day, 3 billion all time
Mininova for president.
[quote comment="201255"]Good to hear. I do not like the layout of Mininova. But I know it is great for getting n00bs into torrents, so it is great that it is there to spread the word, and the content. Good luck to Mininova, keep ‘em coming.[/quote]
For those who don’t have any invites to private trackers (which would be most people, n00bs included), Mininova is the best place to find torrents, although TPB is definately a close second. Other public sites have far fewer torrents, IMHO.
I’ve been involved in downloading via torrents for 4 years or so and have yet to get an invite from anyone. Then again, I don’t upload torrents as I have no time. Downloading is simple, easy and not very time consuming. Creating DVD’s from the torrents is another story….
Congrats Mininova! This site has been the standard over the past year. As far as the look, they continue to keep the look consistent but do make changes when necessary, just not a complete overhaul. The ads are also not intrusive at all.
They also are on top of deleting fake torrents quickly making users feel comfortable. The ever better part, they are an indexing site and do not host any trackers. That means they will be around for a long time. Sweet.
Darnell
You would think with all those linux distros downloaded from mininova MS would be in trouble :p
[quote comment="201370"]
I’ve been involved in downloading via torrents for 4 years or so and have yet to get an invite from anyone. Then again, I don’t upload torrents as I have no time. Downloading is simple, easy and not very time consuming. Creating DVD’s from the torrents is another story….[/quote]
even losers can get invites at http://www.inviteshare.com
very impressive.
Is mininova still here?
Oh right, i forgot people that arent on good sites go here :P
I personally don’t like Mininova. Lot’s of torrents with trackers that require registration.
But it’s a good place to look if I don’t find it on ThePirateBay.
they are the best torrent index imo, but they should add some server on their bay.
Mininova rocks! I hope they become No.1..
Msg 2 Mininova: Dont sell it on to Google or Microsoft
Why does it say “Milion” on the graph?
a 1000 million is a billion.
3000 million is 3 billion
because 3000 million = 3 billion
*sigh*
It says milion on the graph coz 1000 milion is 1 bilion
Keep up the fight Mininova, you’ve done us good for some time now.
i think he was making reference to the fact that the graph misspelled million you jackass
Why do each of the visitors need to download the mini-nova 3 times. (average)
This also suggests, that most users are downloading mini-nova many more times than they actually need…
judging by the download numbers, and the total amount of internet users, and systems capable of actually running the program coupled with the fact, that Mini-nova, at 4 billion downloads, will have pushed out 1 download 4 times for every single user on the internet.
Sorry, but that stinks severely of inflated numbers and possibly fraud.
Your arguement would make since if Mini-Nova was a client app, but since it’s a torrent tracker, you sound stupid for not bothering to look at the site.
bite me!
[quote comment="202032"]Why do each of the visitors need to download the mini-nova 3 times. (average)
This also suggests, that most users are downloading mini-nova many more times than they actually need…
judging by the download numbers, and the total amount of internet users, and systems capable of actually running the program coupled with the fact, that Mini-nova, at 4 billion downloads, will have pushed out 1 download 4 times for every single user on the internet.
Sorry, but that stinks severely of inflated numbers and possibly fraud.[/quote]
Each visitor is not downloading 3 times, but it can also be 3 different files.
so mr.I think the real question, first get your question right and then think.
Is this number actual LOCAL downloads, or are they using the completed download statistics from the trackers?
mininova’s stats say:
Total torrent downloads: 3,016,437,181
But if it is calculated the same as:
Total seeds: 6,474,197
Total leechers: 2,154,493,911
By just using the SUM(seeders), SUM(leechers), SUM(downloads)
If they are doing it that way, then there are sites that beat this long ago.
For example, TorrentPortal.com has 4,637,938,299 downloads complete (not just .torrents downloaded). Which is 1.6 billion downloads more if that is how they are tracking it. This data is from the TRACKERS, not mininova.
@nb: no, the number mentioned is the amount of .torrent downloads (as this article also states, BTW). More info @ http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2007/11/01/more-than-3-billion-downloads/
[quote]Your arguement would make since if Mini-Nova was a client app, but since it’s a torrent tracker, you sound stupid for not bothering to look at the site.[/quote]
Mininova isn’t a tracker, it’s an index site.
yeah thats right. :P
i like mininova for few reasons. 1)fake torrents r removed quickly. 2)i am subscribed to aXXo user account newsfeed in the site. 3)torrents r very well categorized.(never saw torrent in wrong category)
4)lots of comments by users.
well done congrats
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Nothing compared to Mininova of course, but we also increased our traffic by 100x in 6 months, and we will keep growing!!!
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3 billion stolen files, that’s what it is what if you get caught
mininova rocks.
but where the hell is axxo???
I really enjoy torrents from mininova, I really do, and I think they are great!
Mininova is #1, just be careful, you’re the biggest target out there.
There are interests that want this stopped and the more popular this gets the more they may feel they are loosing. And rules will be bent, broken or made to ruin all our fun.
Good luck and keep up the good work.
i luv mininova..huhu
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