2009 has been a mixed-bag year for most torrent hosting websites and torrent trackers, with several being sued, several going legal and several shutting down completely. However, the sites still did well considering the traffic that they served up during the year. Surprisingly, The Pirate Bay (TPB) is still #1 torrent site of the year, with an estimated daily visitors of approx 4.5 million users and page views amounting to more than 26 million per day.
Here are the top 15 torrent sites of the year 2009:
- thepirartebay.org
- torrentz.com
- isohunt.com
- mininova.org
- btjunkie.org
- torrentreactor.net
- torrentdownloads.net
- monova.org
- extratorrent.com
- btmon.com
- kickasstorrents.com
- vertor.com
- eztv.it
- sumotorrent.com
- alivetorrents.com
Most of the top 25 torrent sites for 2009 had an Alexa rank of less than 5000 and Compete rank of under 10000, with TPB coming close to breaking into the top 100. For the complete list of top 25 torrents sites and traffic details, visit Torrent Freak’s post: Top 25 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009.
