Have you ever wondered about what would be the most 5 popular torrent site of 2007? Guess what, here we have the list of torrents that made into top five position based on popularity this year.
Last year I compiled the list of popular torrents based on the few selection parameters. This year I have decided to put most top 5 list based on popularity.
The selections criteria are based on following parameter. The main factor of popularity was based on the traffic site receives (Alexa Ranking has been used to determine it). The second factor for popularity was number of sites that are linking in (Yahoo inbound links has been used to determine it). Also average number of peers has been taken into consideration for tracker sites that made into the list.
1.MiniNova.org [A ~ 60 | Y ~ 2.73M | P ~ 16M]
Mininova has been simply the best of torrent sites for year. Mininova has crossed its one million torrents listing and three billion torrents download this year. In addition to indexing, Mininova has its own tracker also. Mininova tops our popular torrent sites list this year as usual.
2. IsoHunt.com [A ~160 | Y ~ 2.83M | P ~ 15M]
IsoHunt is a popular torrent index and torrent search engine. IsoHunt is one among the few sites that withstood the legal battle on piracy even though it had to take away it own torrent tracking service TorrentBox from US. IsoHunt uses tracker cross-referencing that enables to track across identical trackers across other tracker sites.
3. ThePirateBay.org [A ~ 165 | Y ~ 2.83M | P ~ 8 M]
ThePirateBay is one of the world’s largest torrent trackers. ThePirateBay also gives clutter free interface for the user. TPB has its own tracker for its torrent index and has top listing of torrents etc. ThePirateBay also has released it own browser toolbar. This is one of my personal favorite all time.
4. TorrentZ.com [A ~ 197 | Y ~ 2.64M]
TorrentZ has a powerful and advanced search engine that enables you to search for the filenames rather than torrents. TorrentZ is only site that makes into list without featuring its own tracker. TorrentZ only indexes torrents available on another trackers. Another plus point is TorrentZ is ads free!
5.BTJunkie.org [A ~ 580 | Y ~ 1.67M | P ~ 3M]
BTJunkie is one among the largest and more advanced torrent search engines. BTJunkie crawler indexes both the public and private torrents, which put together gives a most comprehensive torrents listing. BTJunkie also know for indexing most number of torrents in total.
Statistics
A – Alexa Rank
Y – Yahoo InLinks
P – Average Number of Peers
Also checkout the Alexa traffic for page views for these torrent sites for year of 2007.
This year special mention goes to Demonoid and TorrentSpy. Both of them were doing exceptionally well during last year. Demonoid remained to be a largest private tracker site. Demonoid was completely bought down couple of months back. In TorrentSpy case, they index is still active but the search feature has been disable for US visitors due to the piracy issue.Altogether this year was full of battles on piracy. You can read more information on torrents at TorrentFreak.
Let me ask you this question. Have you ever used torrents? Do you think they are against piracy?
Update 12/29 : TorrentFreak has listed it top popular torrent sites
I use mininova, but for some movies and songs, i prefer dctorrent. You get links very early, just about in a day or two you get the torrent. to get dctorrent membership, you need to donate some amount (10$) and follow some of their rules, But still, i find it as the best site for torrent. For some softwares, yes, mininova is the best i ever came across.
Generally I dont use torrent sites, only for a few occasions. BTW this is a great list.
Great list buddy. I haven’t tried #4. I think I’ll take a look at it. Thanks for always teaching me something new 🙂
I use the first four.. heard of btjunkie for the first time.. will give it a try..
even demonoid was a gr8 site..
Vaibhav, thank you for the information of dctorrent. They seem to have huge resource for desi movies and song.
Nirmal, Do you avoid torrents because of you think they are again piracy? or you prefer direct P2P?
Brown Baron, Actually you missed the best one on the list. Torretz is completely ads free! and you’re always welcome 🙂
dEEPAK, Of course demoid was a great site but no longer exists:( BTJunkie has become popular bit lately.
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I used to prefer Demonoid but since it is shutdown, i use mininova or torrentspy.
I used mininova and piratebay earlier. Now becoz of a french law i am using any torrent sites.
gud list and i too don’t use torrent sites….prefer p2p…
I use pvt & public sites 🙂
I wish some good UL broadband plan come this year .
Madhur Kapoor, You’re lucky enough to use TorrentSpy there. It is been baned here in US.
Ram, That might be a rude move by Frech goverment. But they might didn’t have another choice to stop piracy.
Techblissonline, At times P2P comes in handy!
rahul, True! the best they have in India is only by BSNL i guess!
Hey Benedict! I’m back! Remember me? 😀
I may have visited some of those other torrent sites, but the only logo I recognize, since I’m not big on torrents, is Pirate Bay. 😛 Which ones do you recommend?
Grace– Glad to see you back and have you here 🙂 I’m also having a hard time refreshing my memory after a vacation 😛
Yes, my personal take would be PirateBay!!
Where did you go? 😀 Hope you had fun!
Thanks for the recommendation! 🙂
Grace, Nowhere but hiding off from blogging for a while 🙂 You’re always welcome!!
Mmmm sounds nice. That was exactly what I did too. Started working on something else. 😀
Benedicte
There is also a new kid on the block called Youtorrent.com. There is a lot of good coverage on the web about this service.
I’m quite behind the curve when it comes to torrent sites.
Cheers for piecing the list together for us Benedict.
Grace – You didn’t mention about what was the new release you working on ?
Zia – Thank you for letting me know about it.
David Airey – You’re welcome David and ty for stopping by!
I preferred demonoid to the other trackers.. But now I go with Torrentleech or Isohunt for private and public torrents respectively.
Nice list Ben!
I would like to recommend http://www.eztv.it/index.php, this is where I find most of my latest favorite TV shows.
I choose Mininova. The interface is clean and even with advertising, it is not too obtrusive.
Torrent Spy is my personal favourite.
hurray thanz rye i searching for this info and i got it now……..
Hmm can you get in trouble for this? What about non warez torrents?
hey very good list. i love Pirate bay. Thats my favorite client
I’m not into torrents much, but I have always found whatever I want on Pirate Bay.
While I love using these sites, i wonder how long they are going to last before being banned.
Great list man, though I’m an Amule fan. 🙂 and i won’t give it up for another.
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Great list Ben.
Am new to some of them.
Cheers!
Hi guys i`d like to add a new private torrent site
we have all the lastest torrents at great speeds!
no worries of viruses, all help and information given
friendly staff,freee sign-ups
come and join all welcome at
http://www.super-inferno.com
see you there
CALMER
They’ve all closed except Pirate Bay
Really good one. Thanks
The PirateBay said:
were going to do a video streaming site. Its true. Its in the works being done right now and as usual we put a bit of Pirate Bay mentality behind every project we do.
Thanks for compiling the popular sites. BTW do you have any idea on BitTorrent Software? I just wanna know whether the uploading speed effects the downloading part? Thanks in Advance..
Amy
Hi, I just happened to stop by from an old link I found. This blog can always be revived– you’ve got some great things going on.