Torrent site traffic - Mininova
TorrentFreak [link] is reporting that torrent tracking site Mininova entered the top 50 most visited sites online yesterday. Alexa (an online tool that analyses and produces reports on global web traffic). Currently the site ranks at 68;
While Alexa’s ranking system is often under discussion as to it’s validity, confirmation of the scale of torrent downloads is reported on Mininova’s own blog. Currently they anticipate to have served 3,000,000,000 (3 billion) downloads, download is confirmed as;
To avoid some confusion: we’re counting the number of times a .torrent file is downloaded from our website, not how often the data described in the .torrent file is completely downloaded by a peer.
We also reached new heights in the Alexa statistics, Mininova currently ranks as one of the 60 biggest websites in the world.
Via [Mininova/blog]
Response across the two sites mentioned has been supportive of the facts presented. As both sites are pro sharing this is not uncommon. It is worth pointing out the sophistication of commenters on the site. At TorrentFreak connections are drawn between the earlier leaked MediaDedender emails detailing Mininova as a site difficult to dupe with fake torrent uploads.
Via [TorrentFreak Comments]
