Posting a list of the world’s most-visited torrent sites has
been a long-standing tradition at TF, which we
continue today. At the start of
2016 KickassTorrents is pulling in most traffic followed by The Pirate Bay. A
lot of things have happened over the past year, with some torrent sites
disappearing from the scene and others taking their place.
torrent sites 2016Most file-sharers are creatures of habit,
but when their favorite site disappears they gladly hop over to the next one.
This is also reflected in our annual top 10 torrent sites
with the most traffic, which sees the usual names on top but also features some
dubious newcomers. Update: The top torrent sites of 2017 are in. One of the major changes came with the hostile takeover of
the popular TV-torrent site EZTV. This prompted the popular TV-torrent
distribution group to shut down last May. Another group took over the popular
brand and continued with their own ‘unofficial’ EZTV releases. We therefore
marked the site as a newcomer.
Something similar happened to YIFY’s YTS website, when its
New Zealand-based admin ran into legal trouble. The official YTS website shut
down but it was quickly replaced by the “unofficial” YTS.ag, which gathered a
large user-base over the past two months.
Apparently, most torrent users are happy as long as they can
get their fix, no matter what the source is.
KickassTorrents (KAT) remains the most visited torrent site
and continues to grow. The Pirate Bay is listed in second place and made a
strong comeback after nearly two months of downtime spanning the turn of the
year. Since the site has been operating from several domain names until a few
days ago, we chose not to list an Alexa rank.
Finally, it’s worth noting that Rutracker would have made it
into the top five based on the number of visitors. However, we choose to only
include English language content sites.
Below is the full list of the top 10 most-visited torrent
sites at the start of the new year. The list is based on various traffic
reports and we display the Alexa rank for each. In addition, we include last
year’s ranking for each of the 10 sites.
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