Mininova Sees Its Traffic Doubled within Only a Year

It seems that there’s still room for the BitTorrent popularity to expand. Mininova is amongst the most visited torrent sites, currently having over half a billion visitors per month which means it now enjoys a double number of views than it did a year ago.

Mininova managed to get into Alexa’s list of the 50 most popular websites on the Internet released on November within only 3 years from launching and its popularity is ongoing.

This is a statistic showing Mininova’s growth according to TorrentFreak:
 

March 2007
57,605,816 visits
261,460,196 pageviews

March 2008
109,304,822 visits
530,181,594 pageviews

However huge this increase in popularity of Mininova Niek, one of the founders of the site doesn’t back down from believing that things will eben look better for the site in the future: “We expect that Mininova will at least sustain its current number of visitors. As BitTorrent and P2P in general become more and more accepted by the general public, new users will find their way to Mininova and other torrent search engines” […] “What Google has done for the web, we try to accomplish for BitTorrent and P2P.”

Due to the ever increasing number of visitors, lots of upgrades of the hardware were necessary. However, even the present configuration has its flaws as a few days ago Mininova dropped for more than 12 hours because of hardware problems.

“The extensive downtime of the last few days was a result of very unfortunate accidents, namely a crashing hard disk and a failing network card of the load-balancer in combination with two successive holidays in The Netherlands. We will do our utmost to prevent such issues in the future.”

Well, Mininova, keep the P2P flag up and fluttering!