The 10 most-visited torrent sites at the start of the 2013: Stakes around this kind of service.
and shakers, as well as several newcomers.’’ Therefore, we have below, the full list of the 10 most-visited torrent sites at the start of the 2013.
Always according to Torrentfreak, the list is based on various traffic
reports and they have displayed the Alexa and U.S. Compete rank for each. In
addition, only public and English language sites are included, including last
year’s ranking for each of the 10 sites.
‘’1. The Pirate Bay : to many people The Pirate Bay
is the equivalent to BitTorrent. The site was founded in 2003 and is still
expanding, despite the various legal troubles and new blockades in the UK and
the Netherlands. The Pirate Bay currently has well over a billion page views a
month.
Alexa Rank: 74 / Compete Rank: 398 / Last year
#1
2. KickassTorrents : KickassTorrents was founded in
2009 and has moved up in our top 10 year after year. Responding to increasing
worries over domain seizures, the site moved from its kickasstorrents.com domain to kat.ph in 2012. This year the site
continued to grow, despite being blocked by Italian Internet providers.
Alexa Rank: 116 / Compete Rank: 719 / Last year
#3
3. Torrentz : Torrentz has been the leading
BitTorrent meta-search engine for many years. Unlike the other sites featured
in the list Torrentz does not host any torrent files, it merely redirects
visitors to other places on the web. The site uses several domain names with
the .eu being the most popular.
Alexa Rank: 166 / Compete Rank: 882 / Last year
#2
4. IsoHunt : Two years ago isoHunt became
the first search engine forced to implement a keyword filter provided by the MPAA. Despite
this setback, isoHunt continues to be listed among the world’s top torrent
sites. isoHunt is currently trying to get rid of the filter through the Appeals
Court.
Alexa Rank: 213 / Compete Rank: 1,935 / Last
year #4
5. ExtraTorrent : ExtraTorrent continues to gain
more traffic and has moved up again in the top 10, now being the 5th most
visited torrent site. This success didn’t go unnoticed to rightsholders groups
such as the RIAA and MPAA who have called out
ExtraTorrent as one of the top pirate sites recently.
Alexa Rank: 279 / Compete Rank: 1,973 / Last
year #6
6. 1337x : 1337x focuses more on the
community aspect than some competitors. The site’s owners say they started
1337x to “fill an apparent void where it seemed there was a lack of quality
conscience ad free torrent sites with public trackers.” The site moved up from
spot 10 last year to 6th in 2013.
Alexa Rank: 1,031 / Compete Rank: 9,228 / Last
year #10
7. EZTV : Unlike the other sites in the
top 10, TV-torrent distribution group EZTV is a niche site specializing in TV
content only. It was one of the newcomers last year despite being around for
more than 7 years, and is relatively popular among Australians. Because of its
focus on TV-content EZTV’s traffic varies in line with the TV-seasons.
Alexa Rank: 1,128 / Compete Rank: 16,622 / Last
year #8
8. Bitsnoop : BitSnoop is one of the largest
BitTorrent indexes, claiming to index a massive 19,091,736 torrent files at the
time of writing. The site’s traffic continues to grow steadily, as do the DMCA
notices that it receives.
Alexa Rank: 1,159 / Compete Rank: 5,648 / Last
year #9
9. TorrentReactor : TorrentReactor is back in the
top 10 after dropping off last year. A few months ago the site was blocked by a
court order in Italy, but the site
nonetheless continues to gain visitors.
Alexa Rank: 1,314 / Compete Rank: 4,530 / Last
year #NA
10. H33t : H33T has been around for many
years and has built a dedicated user base, mostly in Europe and Asia. Despite
the wishes of the music industry, the
site isn’t yet blocked by any court orders. The site made the news a few months
ago when its owner took a stand against the avalanche of
copyright takedown requests.
Alexa Rank: 1,403 / Compete Rank: 6,234 / Last
year #NA’’. (image from istockphoto).
