Mininova’s Traffic Doubles in a Year

Written by Ernesto on April 30, 2008 

The BitTorrent popularity explosion is still underway, with some torrent sites now amongst the most visited sites, anywhere on the web. One of those, Mininova, now gets well over half a billion page views a month and is now 100% bigger than it was this time last year. And the site is still growing.

mininovaTo say that Mininova has grown quite a bit since it has started three years ago, is probably something of an understatement.

November last year saw Mininova breaking into Alexa’s list of the 50 most visited websites on the Internet, which is an amazing achievement in just 36 months . Close to 5 billion torrents have been downloaded already, and with the torrents, the numbers of visitors continues to grow.

Here is a comparison between Mininova’s traffic last month, and a year before that.

March 2007

57,605,816 visits
261,460,196 pageviews

March 2008

109,304,822 visits
530,181,594 pageviews

Mininova’s visitors literally come from all over the world, Google analytics even reports 63 visits from the Vatican and 12 from Antarctica. However, most of the visitors come from the United States, followed by the UK, France, Canada and Australia.

Other BitTorrent sites are seeing similar visitor boosts but in terms of traffic, Mininova is definitely leading the pack. TorrentFreak spoke with Niek, one of the founders of the site, and he sees opportunities to grow even further.

“We expect that Mininova will at least sustain its current number of visitors. As BitTorrent and P2P in general become more and more accepted by the general public, new users will find their way to Mininova and other torrent search engines,” says Niek. “What Google has done for the web, we try to accomplish for BitTorrent and P2P.”

As a result of the increased popularity, Mininova had to upgrade their hardware numerous times. Unfortunately the current setup still has some weak spots. Yesterday Mininova went down for over 12 hours due to hardware issues.

“The extensive downtime of the last few days was a result of very unfortunate accidents, namely a crashing hard disk and a failing network card of the load-balancer in combination with two successive holidays in The Netherlands. We will do our utmost to prevent such issues in the future,” Niek said.

We wish them all the best and will keep you informed when their traffic has doubled again.

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1 Apr 30, 2008 at 17:04 by Anonymous

nice

2 Apr 30, 2008 at 17:04 by most_uniQue

Go MiniNova! My favorite BitTorrent site!

3 Apr 30, 2008 at 17:37 by Cracker Jack

[quote comment="364727"]Go MiniNova! My favorite BitTorrent site![/quote]

How dare you go against the ‘noid!

4 Apr 30, 2008 at 17:52 by Kingyy

Lmao The noid nice !

5 Apr 30, 2008 at 18:15 by Toost Inc.

these sort of things make me proud of being a dutchman :P

6 Apr 30, 2008 at 18:17 by Binsy

great site. i like TPB but at least these guys are continually innovating…

7 Apr 30, 2008 at 19:00 by Koss

Still, TPB is my favourite <3

8 Apr 30, 2008 at 19:40 by helloooo

half the torrents on mininova are tracked by TPB anyway…

9 Apr 30, 2008 at 19:44 by Jeff

TPB and Demonoid <3

10 Apr 30, 2008 at 21:00 by Tip

I just discovered smaragtorrent which has great stuff unavailable on most others, AND the seeders to go with it. Very nice.

11 Apr 30, 2008 at 22:47 by Free.The.Scene

http://www.freethescene.net

open signups~!

12 May 01, 2008 at 00:20 by skakidd

i like the easy access and accurate searches of mininova, TPB’s team and what they do for pirates everywhere, and demonoid for always having what i’m looking for.

13 May 01, 2008 at 00:53 by Delaware

Sweet!

14 May 01, 2008 at 01:10 by Bob4p2p

Demonoid = </3, I did not enjoy being turned into my ISP by them.

I LOVE mininova, but I wish torrent sites allowed more specific searching, there is so much stuff that gets dragged in with what you searched for.

15 May 01, 2008 at 02:09 by p2p4Bob

[quote comment="365178"]Demonoid = </3, I did not enjoy being turned into my ISP by them.

I LOVE mininova, but I wish torrent sites allowed more specific searching, there is so much stuff that gets dragged in with what you searched for.[/quote]

Good searching? Try Demonoid.

16 May 01, 2008 at 03:40 by ace hall

.va ?

is it legal there ?

17 May 01, 2008 at 05:49 by *.*

Mininova gas been a good torrent site with good fake-protection. Their ads are not as bad as most other sites.

It seems unfair that a site like Mininova, without even a tracker, can become bigger and wealthier than any site that goes to the trouble spending time and money on a tracker - like the kind that Mininova gets to leech its torrents off.

But with only a very few high-capacity public trackers in existence to support the torrent community, this is where Mininova needs to step up and take some responsibility.

At least TPB don’t depend on anyone else to be a fully integrated operation.

18 May 01, 2008 at 13:10 by Mr Roboto

^ I couldn’t agree more. Mininova has a tracker but they only use it for “Content Distribution”, or legal torrents. Files the copyright holders themselves have given permission to seed. So basically they’re pussies and leech off of TPB and others and get to reap the rewards, with much less effort and much, much less legal risk.

19 May 01, 2008 at 17:04 by MarXian

MIninova will be death in few years, you’ll see.

20 May 01, 2008 at 18:50 by amateurs

Anyone can run an indexer - its not illegal anywhere in any shape or form - ask google.

Why don’t mininova grow some balls and set up a tracker? And stop leeching of real trackers by displaying paid for ads with their indexes?

Why don’t torrentfreak grow some balls and give us some real news? heres a lead: bitmetv makes 100,000 USD plus every year - its run by 2 chumps from Salt Lake City, Utah and their international bitches.

21 May 02, 2008 at 02:26 by itsfunny

[quote comment="364811"]great site. i like TPB but at least these guys are continually innovating…[/quote]
lol. And TPB arent?

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