September 19, 2009 by sharky
It’s indisputable that most public torrent indexers will offer more torrents than any one individual private tracker. However, if you added up all the private torrents in existence, and compared the stats to what public trackers have to offer (taking into consideration for redundancy and dead torrents of both) private trackers collectively will win in an overwhelming landslide. For example IsoHunt, which boasts an incredible 3.7 million ‘active’ torrents; impressive as it may seem, still pales in comparison to the number of torrents available on just 20 of the top private trackers combined. Here’s a list of 13 private trackers that have the most torrents overall.
Torrents.ru
It may come as a surprise, but Torrents.ru has the most torrents of any private tracker. With more than 706,000 torrents indexed (640,000 listed as active), Torrents.ru is a juggernaut among trackers - 4 million registered members can’t be wrong.
If you didn’t already guess, Torrents.ru is a Russian tracker - with limited international appeal. While anyone can view the site/forum through Google Translate (to English - link here), it won’t help once logged in. It’s best to use the translate service when not logged in, to get a feel for what this giant has to offer. The sheer content is absolutely staggering, and there’s not a single genre that can’t be found. While Torrents.ru serves up the latest movies, apps, games, music - this is the site you need when looking for obscure stuff; such as automotive downloads, GPS content & maps, mobile phones & PDAs, ebooks and the like. If a better "general" tracker exists, please let us know.
At the moment, registration might be closed (while usually open - so check back), which might be due in part to their 5th anniversary celebration which includes a sitewide freeleech on everything until September 22nd.
What.CD
Recently surpassing 607,000 torrents, mega-music tracker What.CD is soon poised to become the most prolific private tracker of all time. Despite being three years younger than Torrents.ru, What.cd’s 100,000+ members certainly know how to upload torrents - over the past ten months the torrent count has doubled from 300K. What.CD has been breaking records practically since its inception, and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. During the past year, 100K new torrents are added every three months. Torrent timeline:
- March 2008 - 100,000 torrents.
- July 2008 - 200,000 torrents.
- September 2008 - 250,000 torrents.
- November 2008 - 300,000 torrents.
- March 2009 - 400,000 torrents.
- June 2009 - 500,000 torrents.
- September 19th, 2009 - 607,496 torrents.
- Late 2010 - 1,000,000 torrents?
Waffles.FM
Waffles.fm is another music tracker dynasty that has also had its fair share of success over the last two years. While not quite the same numbers as What.CD, Waffles currently lists 284,527 total torrents on the tracker (of these - 261,072 are considered active with seeders). Not too shabby, considering that Waffles has less than half the number of users compared to What.cd. Member-for-member, Wafflers easily compete with What.CD users for the number of uploaded torrents by each - people sure do love their music trackers.
- — Less than 4 weeks after launching, Waffles already listed 57,000 total torrents (50K active).
- — By October 2008, listed 200,000 total torrents and just 35,000 members.
- — In April 2009, indexed 250,000 total torrents.
Demonoid.com
Semi-private Demonoid has been offline for a few days now, so we’re unable to provide live statistics. However, on September 1st, 2009 - Demonoid listed 283,606 total torrents (241,872 of which are hosted internally on their own tracker). Looking at Demonoid’s traffic stats, we would surmise that they easily have in excess of 1 million members.
Torrentsmd.com
Torrentsmd.com is a Moldovan (or Moldavian) tracker which - incredibly - is ranked #6 of all sites overall in Moldova, according to Alexa.com. If your country’s #6 site is a private tracker, well then you’re doing something right. Ah, those crazy pirates! Language used on the site is Romanian, and as one reader pointed out - there’s 143,632 torrents. Registration was closed at last check, but it’ll probably reopen.
Gamato.info
By far the most popular Greek tracker, Gamato continues to put up impressive numbers. With 107,544 total torrents and 632,120 members - Gamato is often open for signup here. While they’re a general tracker with categories for everything, 80% of the content falls within both the huge array of Audio & Video torrents.
TranceTraffic
An unlikely candidate for this list is 5+ year-old TranceTraffic, which a month ago listed 82,215 total torrents on the tracker (although the # of active torrents is much less). In their defense, there are so many different packs to choose from which more than makes up for the dead torrents. Regardless, it’s an impressive figure for a music tracker that has fewer than 8,000 members - that specialized only in trance, house, techno and other electronic music (EDM).
Zamunda.net
International multi-language Zamunda.net is a general tracker for just about everything - currently there’s 75,205 torrents indexed at this Bulgarian site. Public registration to Zamunda is often open (which is capped at 700,000 members), so just keep checking back as inactive accounts get pruned quite frequently. For a tracker as large as this, it’s amazing that their forums are absolutely devoid of any life. Longevity: The oldest active torrent listed is from March 31st, 2005.
Cheggit, Empornium & PureTNA
Three of the Internet’s oldest trackers, which also happen to be adult-oriented - continue to put up big torrent numbers and unbelievable membership counts. No surprise about the number of users on all three, since registration is open to the public almost continuously.
Cheggit — Lists 100,143 total torrents on the tracker.
Empornium — Lists 69,417 active torrents (although total torrents including dead, is listed at 123,365). Registered users: 1,027,373. Oldest active torrent on site - May 26th, 2005.
PureTNA — Lists 64,650 active torrents (total torrents, including dead: 85,776). Registered users: 1,004,428. Oldest active torrent on site - July 16th, 2004.
IPTorrents.com
Of all the general trackers in existence, you won’t find a better site for overall torrent retention than IPTorrents. Even their oldest torrents from way back in May 2006 still have a ton of seeders on them. Current active torrent count: 67,642. Once thought to be just another run-of-the-mill tracker, IPT has certainly overcome this and become one of the best general sites around. While tracker statistics are not publicly available, their FAQ claims that the ‘invite limit’ is set to 80,000 members.
Karagarga.net
While Karagarga may not appeal to everyone (they offer an eclectic array of indie, arthouse, film-noirs & rare movies, and soundtracks) - the torrent count at KG continues to loom large. With 66,839 total torrents (41,530 active) - dead torrents can always be requested for a reseed - making KG the largest private movie tracker on the ‘net.
NOTE: By no means is this an exhaustive list of private trackers with the most torrents. If you know of any other private trackers with higher torrent counts than these, let us know in the comments!
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