Interestingly, however, there are also several torrent sites that have been ‘hurt’ by the recent takedown of Torrentz. While the site is not that popular in the West, in India it quickly became one of the largest sites in the country with Alexa ranking it in 127th place locally. Torrentz2, for example, greatly benefited from coverage in the Indian press. Initially, a lot of interest went out to ‘mirrors’ and copies of KAT and Torrentz, some of which are still doing very well traffic-wise. “We always think and dream of growing and we indeed plan to keep growing,” ExtraTorrent’s SaM tells TorrentFreak, adding that the members of the site make it a success.Īside from the big players, several smaller sites also saw their traffic rise. Similarly, ExtraTorrent is also motivated to keep expanding. The Pirate Bay team previously told us that they are happy to welcome these new users, which made it the king of torrents once again. Still good hundreds of thousands of extra visitors per day, according to the reported data. The three other sites in the top five, RARBG, 1337x.to and YTS.ag, saw their visitor numbers go up by 45%, 53% and 44% respectively. ExtraTorrent, however, doubled its numbers with a 101% increase, welcoming a lot of new users after the Torrentz shutdown. In absolute terms The Pirate Bay benefited the most, adding several million daily visitors, with a relative increase of 67%. Traffic to the top 5 torrent sites ( large) Torrentz initially saw a sharp rise as well, but traffic tanked after its farewell message early August. The graph below shows that traffic to all sites went up after Kat.cr was taken offline. The data is taken from a sample of over 200 million devices measuring desktop visits only. To get a representative picture of changes we asked Similarweb for an overview of the traffic that flowed to the top five torrent sites over the past months, plus Torrentz. The Pirate Bay, for example, which recently became the largest torrent site again, as well as runner-up ExtraTorrent. While many sites across the board are ‘profiting’ from the shutdowns, most traffic appears to be going to the big players. Immediately after KAT shut down, searches for “torrent sites” shot through the roof, as seen below. Now that the dust has settled a bit we take a look at the massive migration that took place.įirst off, the search for alternative torrent sites is nicely illustrated by Google Trends. Both sites had millions of daily visitors who needed to find a new home. Just like that, two of the largest torrent sites had disappeared, causing much confusion and uncertainty among former users. A few days later Torrentz said farewell, leaving many more without access to their torrent search engine of choice. On July 20, KickassTorrents (KAT), the largest torrent site at the time, was shut down after its alleged owner was arrested. However, never before have we witnessed events like those of recent weeks. At TorrentFreak we have been keeping a close eye on the torrent ecosystem for more than a decade.ĭuring this time, many torrent sites have shut down, either voluntarily or after being forced to by a court order.
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