Mininova Enters List of 100 Most Popular Sites on the Internet
Written by Ernesto on July 09, 2007Mininova is the fist BitTorrent site to enter the list of 100 most visited sites on the Internet, joining sites like Google, Yahoo! and Digg. A great accomplishment proving that BitTorrent’s popularity and Mininova in particular continues to grow.
Mininova went head to head with Torrentspy for over a year but over the past few months Mininova clearly took the lead. This week they reached the same level as the popular social bookmarking website Digg.com, and their growth doesn’t seem to stop here.
The Alexa 100 is a list of the domains that generate the most traffic on the Internet. The fact that Mininova managed the top 100 is even more impressive if you take into account that over 25 local Google domains are among these 100 domains. Other popular sites in the Alexa 100 are Yahoo!, YouTube, Myspace, Wikipedia and EBay.
A the moment Mininova has 2,000,000 daily visitors who generate nearly 20,000,000 pageviews. Mininova continues to grow and served over a billion .torrent downloads in less than six months.
Most other BitTorrent sites aren’t doing too bad either. The Pirate Bay, Torrentz and Demonoid are all listed among the top 500 most visited sites, and more sites will probably join them in the months to come. Even Isohunt and Torrentspy continued to grow last month, despite the negative publicity. Here’s a combined graph of the traffic rank of the five most popular BitTorrent sites at the moment.
Compared to last year, all these sites continued to grow and attracted more visitors. Will it ever stop?
Note: Alexa’s data gathering is quite dubious. 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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21 Responses
Finally, some good news for the community on this site…
But frankly, I think mininova is one of the worst out of the torrent sites. I figure I find more results on isohunt or torrentspy or even TPB.
The number of results doesn’t matter, the quality of those results does, mininova provides reliable results compared to some other sites like isohunt imo.
Um… Not sure if I’m looking at the right thing, but this list at Alexa shows that Mininova is at 140:
[quote comment="130640"]Um… Not sure if I’m looking at the right thing, but this list at Alexa shows that Mininova is at 140:
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That’s over the past three months. Look here, and you’ll see that yesterday’s traffic rank was 100.
Ah, sorry, my bad.
[quote comment="130634"]The number of results doesn’t matter, the quality of those results does, mininova provides reliable results compared to some other sites like isohunt imo.[/quote]
Really? I think isohunt and torrentspy have some of the best quality results… complete torrents, lots of trackers, and to top it all off a large quantity of such.
Mininova is probably the best bet for finding a reliable, safe and healthy torrent.
Theres nearly always accurate comments aswell.
A good and helpful community is lacking in many other torrent sites.
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Theres nearly always accurate comments aswell.
A good and helpful community is lacking in many other torrent sites.[/quote]
Still, in my experience mininova has fewer and less helpful comments than torrentspy (although granted.. isohunt has no comments at all)
I guess for a few days I’ll do a comparison first though… run my searches by mininova and my other favorites… but back when i was still picking favorites, mininova had its chance and failed :p
Who would be stupid enough to visit Isohunt or Torrentspy when they are monitoring everything you download and passing that information to the justice system?
If I look to the top 100 ( http://zonow.com/74 ), then I see only very commercial websites… so I hope that people also visit other non-commercial websites!
I keep with torrentz for private trackers and bitsoup for specials.
I personnaly stick to http://www.sumotorrent.com, I like this site a lot :)
There are a lot of better alternatives to Mininova, which in my opinion is too featureless. You guys can try also flixflux.co.uk, spynova.com …
Hi,
>There are a lot of better alternatives to Mininova
Yeah! ThePirateBay.com. It is much better than all the others. No spam and spyware.
Just my opinion…
- William :)
http://www.npgb.org
http://all-free-gifts.blogspot.com
mininova`s combination of ease of use,great results,near amazing interface ,other extras(coments,details,etc) makes it my prsonal favourite ….
Good luck guys
look how it is in russia at http://www.whyrussia.org
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