4 billion downloads!
We've got great and exciting news! Mininova passed the 4 billion (4.000.000.000) torrent downloads mark today :)
It's nice to see that the download counter continues to speed up: after reaching 3 billion downloads back in November 2007, we expected to reach the current number only in March or April.
For the sake of clarity: our download counter represents the number of times a .torrent file is downloaded from Mininova, this is not identical to the number of times a peer completes the download.
Some additional statistics for those who're interested: our Alexa rank is currently 54, and Google Analytics shows that more than 32 million unique visitors used Mininova last month. These people together generate more than 510 million pageviews per month, which causes quite some pressure on our servers. We do whatever we can to minimize downtime and add extra servers when necessary.
Thanks to everyone who helped us to accomplish this! Special thanks go to our moderating team, who did and do a marvelous job.
As always: stay tuned, more big news is coming up very soon.
Press coverage: Slyck, ZeroPaid, AfterDawn, TechRadar, TechDigest, ITavisen (Norwegian), TorrentFreak, DSLreports