Below is the full list of the 10 most-visited torrent sites at the start of the new year. Only public and English language sites are included. The list is based on various traffic reports and we display the Alexa and U.S. Compete rank for each. In addition, we include last year’s ranking for each of the 10 sites.
1. The Pirate Bay
To many people The Pirate Bay is synonymous with BitTorrent. The site was founded more than a decade ago and is still expanding, despite various legal troubles, domain hops and ISP blockades. The Pirate Bay currently has well over a billion page views a month.
Alexa Rank: 79 (est) / Compete Rank: NA / Last year #1
2. KickassTorrents
KickassTorrents was founded in 2009 and has quickly moved up in our top 10, settling into 2nd position this year. Responding to a looming domain seizure the site moved from its kat.ph domain to Kickass.to last August. Despite domain troubles and blockades by Internet providers in the UK and Italy, the site continues to grow.Alexa Rank: 103 / Compete Rank: 452 / Last year #2
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 .eu being the most popular.Alexa Rank: 153 / Compete Rank: 1.377 / Last year #3
4. ExtraTorrent
ExtraTorrent continues to gain more traffic and has moved up again in
the top 10, now placed as the 4th most-visited torrent site. This
success didn’t go unnoticed by rightsholders groups such as the MPAA
who recently called out ExtraTorrent as one of the top pirate sites.
The site was forced to trade in its .com domain for .cc this year, after
it was suspended by its domain registrar.
Alexa Rank: 363 / Compete Rank: 2,286 / Last year #5
5. YIFY-Torrents
Roughly three years ago nobody had ever heard of YIFY but today the movie release group is one of the most recognizable movie piracy brands on the Internet. This reputation resulted in a court-ordered ISP blockade in the UK last year.Alexa Rank: 809 / Compete Rank: 6,245 / Last year #NA
6. EZTV
Unlike the other sites in the top 10, TV-torrent distribution group EZTV is a niche site specializing in TV content only. Because of its focus, EZTV’s traffic varies in line with the TV seasons.Alexa Rank: 1,050 / Compete Rank: 10,790 / Last year #7
7. 1337x
1337x focuses more on the community aspect than some competitors. The site’s owners say they launched 1337x to “fill an apparent void where it seemed there was a lack of quality conscience ad free torrent sites with public trackers.” In common with most other sites in the top 10, 1337x.org is currently blocked by the larger UK Internet providers.Alexa Rank: 1,382 / Compete Rank: 11,445 / Last year #6
8. isoHunt.to
Isohunt.to was launched last October, less than two weeks after isoHunt.com shut down. The site is not affiliated with the old isoHunt crew but copied the site’s design. This has not been without success, as the site now has millions of pageviews a day.Alexa Rank: 1,550 / Compete Rank: NA / Last year #NA
9. BitSnoop
BitSnoop is one of the largest BitTorrent indexes, claiming to index a massive 21,437,061 torrent files at the time of writing. The site’s torrents list continues to grow steadily, as do the number of DMCA notices that it receives.Alexa Rank: 1,714 / Compete Rank: 5,633 / Last year #8
10. RARBG
RARBG, which started out as a Bulgarian tracker several years ago, is the third newcomer in the top 10. Together with isoHunt.to it is the only website in the list that hasn’t been blocked in the UK, which may in part explain its popularity.Alexa Rank: 1,867 / Compete Rank: 13,238 / Last year #NA
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