Torrentz.com: Growing Bigger and Better
Written by Ernesto on August 14, 2007With close to a million unique visitors a day, Torrentz.com is by far the most popular BitTorrent meta search engine. Its unique way of indexing torrents from other popular BitTorrent sites makes it the personal favorite of many BitTorrent fans, and one of the most valuable BitTorrent resources on the Internet.
Torrentz is currently indexing 1.719.529 (unique) torrents from Mininova, Torrentspy, Meganova, Fenopy and 12 other BitTorrent sites. A few months ago, after a required hardware upgrade, The Pirate Bay was added to this list which proved to be a significant improvement. Torrentz now definitely has one of the largest .torrent databases on the Internet.
As a result of the increased popularity, Torrentz had to upgrade there hardware to give the hamsters some air. The hardware upgrade turned out great and made the site faster and more reliable that ever before.
Flippy, the administrator of Torrentz told TorrentFreak: “Torrentz indexes almost 5milion pages on 16 distinct torrent sites. We don’t hot link the torrents like Torrentspy), instead we send the visitors to respectable pages. Visitors get to checkout local comments and site admins get the ad revenue they deserve. Since we get almost a million visitors daily everyone seems to be happy”.
Last month Torrentz reached a new milestone when it entered the Alexa 250. This means that they are now listed among the top 250 most visited websites on the Internet. But it probably wont stop there, of all the larger BitTorrent search engines, Torrentz has shown one of the the most stable growth patterns. And the recent server upgrades make sure it can grow even further.
Several improvements and new features have been introduced over the past year such as a comment system, private bookmarks, a cleaner layout, more torrents, and much more. But, probably the best feature of Torrentz is the lack of intrusive, most “corporations running ads are evil” anyway, according to Flippy.
We also asked Flippy if there are any upcoming features that will be included in the near future, and he said “Torrent sites have a big problem with Fake and mislabeled torrents. We will address this issue with a report system, and enhanced user control. It’s a web2.0 trend that will benefit Torrentz greatly. By the users, for the users. 2.0-toys however, eat lots of resources and the new features will have to wait for additional servers I’m afraid.”.
I think there’s a bright future ahead for Torrentz
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and with google filtering torrent searches. torrentz is a good website to have around.
Nice
been a fav of mine for a long time, only problem is they are now linking to warezquality.com…not a public site
ex:
http://www.torrentz.com/4fd530e51dec30437fa117de16af1c02c1c182e0
kind of makes you wonder how the re-launch of suprnova will affect its further growth and visitor rates?
I’ve been using Torrentz exclusively ever since I read this about IsoHunt: http://torrentfreak.com/filtering-torrents-the-pirate-bay-vs-torrentspy-isohunt/.
Thanks god they’re finally creating that report system…i send them email about month ago to suggest about way that normal users could report fake torrents so they would be (automatically) removed…this’ll make torrentz.com even better=)
Good for them. I like torrentz.com. Powerful, yet simple. And almost no ads on the site.
Suprnova is going to take over once it’s launched.
TPB has been on torrentz far longer then a few months.
Quick Question: Isn’t Isohunt still the most popular meta-search engine seeing as it has way more unique hits a day?
[quote comment="146819"]Quick Question: Isn’t Isohunt still the most popular meta-search engine seeing as it has way more unique hits a day?[/quote]
They don’t have more unique hits than Torrentz.
Unique page views per user per day average
isoHunt:
Yesterday 5.0
1 wk. Avg. 4.7
3 mos. Avg. 4.8
3 mos. Change No Change
torrentz
Yesterday 4.6
1 wk. Avg. 4.6
3 mos. Avg. 4.7
3 mos. Change Down 4%
Data from alexa.com. Not sure about your facts there Ernesto. Considering all torrent sites have seen a marked increase in activity since the beginning of summer, any increase in site traffic must be taken in context with other like sites. Its all good picking one out and saying ‘look at them, aint they doing well’, but when everyone else is seeing the same increase in traffic its not really anything that spectacular.
@badnews
Alexa rank is better to compare shifts in traffic, pageviews doesn’t really say much about the number of visitors.
The raw data that I have shows that torrentz is doing better than Isohunt.
But you’re right, torrentz is not the only site that’s doing well, I might do a post on that later.
“Last month Torrentz reached a new milestone when it entered the Alexa 250.” ?
Strange, according to this : http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none&page=4 Torrentz is 325 (isohunt = 245).
And first bittorrent website = mininova (106).
the rank probably changes…i have seen torrentz.com in top250 sometimes
Alexa is not a reliable source for traffic information, it’s best to not use that for your claims ;)
It’s as reliable as the Nielsen ratings, and it’s the only publicly available source.
Great post.
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Getting an error 500 on Torrentz right now.
I laugh at all of those noobs that use Torrentz without reading the comments section before downloading a movie…to see 1500 noobs dl a fake is really sad because they have the info right in front of them…I liken it to a used car that has “lemon” written all over it, and a line going around the block to buy it.
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