There are many different BitTorrent website

Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

s, each providing information about files distributed via the BitTorrent protocol. They typically contain multiple torrent files and an index of those files. In a typical scenario, a user would enter such a site and browse or search for the content they desire, based on the torrent descriptions posted at the site by other users. If a torrent with the sought content is found, the user could download that torrent.

Such websites each have different features to facilitate the user's search.

BitTorrent Tracker

BitTorrent sites may operate a BitTorrent Tracker

BitTorrent tracker

A BitTorrent tracker is a server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol. It is also, in the absence of extensions to the original protocol, the only major critical point, as clients are required to communicate with the tracker to initiate downloads...

. A tracker provides the site with greater control over user interaction with the content offered by the site. Operating a tracker should not be confused with hosting content.

Directory

A directory allows users to browse the content available on site based on various categories. For example, a directory may let users browse through cookbooks in books section.
A directory is also a site like filesharingz.com where users can find websites. In bittorrent's case, users can find trackers and bittorrent-related sites on these directories.

Comments

Some sites let users post comments about files. Comments allow user to gain additional information before deciding to download a file. This is especially useful when dealing with larger files which may take hours or even days to download.

Specialization

BitTorrent sites may either focus on certain content —for example, etree.org focuses on Live Concerts

Concert

A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

— or may have no particular focus, like Mininova

Mininova

Mininova is a website offering BitTorrent downloads. Mininova was once one of the largest sites offering torrents of copyrighted material, but in November 2009, following legal action in the Dutch courts, the site operators deleted all torrent files uploaded by regular users including torrents that...

. Some sites specialize as search engines of other torrent sites (see below).

Multi-tracker index

Some sites seek to index and provide a combined listing of torrents found on multiple other torrent index sites.

BitTorrent Search Engines

Some sites, such as P2Psearch, NowTorrents,Torrentz, and TorrentScoop search through multiple sites and show results from a few different sites.

Regular Indexer

These are sites like BTJunkie which index content from a few different sites.

Online Clients

There are a number of websites that act as online clients and help users access torrent data throughout their browser. Furk.net and BitLet are all different sites that can download BitTorrent using your browser.

Site comparison

The following table compares the features of various BitTorrent sites. It is by no means exhaustive. Alexa

Alexa Internet

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 ranking is accurate as of 5 October 2010.

Site	Specialization	Is a tracker	Directory	Public	RSS	One-click download	Sortable	Comments	Multi-tracker index	Alexa Traffic Rank
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AnimeSuki Animesuki AnimeSuki is a website and "... the largest database of BitTorrent anime shows" that focuses on providing unlicensed anime fansubs using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer system. The website was created by GHDpro on December 26, 2002. Animesuki is not a tracker; instead, it provides links to many...	Anime & otaku subculture						Only new torrents
Anirena	Anime & otaku subculture
BakaBT	Anime & otaku subculture			Semi
Bangla Torrents	Bengali language content
BiteNova
BitLite	Multimedia streaming	Online Client
BitSoup			?	Semi	?				?
BitTorrent
BitToxic				Semi
BTDigg	DHT Distributed hash table A distributed hash table is a class of a decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table; pairs are stored in a DHT, and any participating node can efficiently retrieve the value associated with a given key...  search
BTJunkie BTJunkie BTJunkie is an advanced BitTorrent search engine. It uses a web crawler to search for torrent files from other torrent sites and store it in its database. It has nearly 4,000,000 active torrents and about 4,200 torrents added daily , making it the largest torrent site indexer on the web...
BTMon
BTScene	Metasearch	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Bush Torrent
CinemaTorrents	Film
ClearBits	Legally redistributable media
Demonoid Demonoid Demonoid is a website and BitTorrent tracker created by an anonymous Serb known only by the pseudonyms "Deimos" and "Zajson". The website indexes torrents uploaded by its members. Demonoid.com was ranked the 538th most popular website overall in December 2010, according to Alexa. Demonoid's torrent...				Semi
eBookVortex	eBooks			semi		?			?	501,929
Entertane	Metasearch	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
etree Etree etree, or electronic tree, is a music community created in the summer of 1998 for the online trading of live concerts. etree pioneered the standards for distributing lossless audio on the net and only permits its users to distribute the music of artists that allow the free taping and trading of...	Live Concerts
Extratorrent		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Fenopy
FlixFlux FlixFlux FlixFlux is a specialist torrent search site for films. The site was originally launched in mid 2006 with a basic search facility, and a list of new film releases. The site was relaunched in December 2006 with a complete redesign, and many new features....	Film
Fulldls
Gamestorrents	Games	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Go-Torrent		?
h33t			?
iBiblio
Immortalseed
TorMovies - Internet Movie Torrent Database	Film
IPTorrents			?						?
isoHunt IsoHunt isoHunt is a BitTorrent index with over 1.7 million torrents in its database and 20 million peers from indexed torrents. With 7.4 million unique visitors , isoHunt is one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Thousands of torrents are added to and deleted from it every day. Users of...	, (Legally redistributable media within U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... )
Jishaku Toshokan	Anime & otaku subculture
JPopsuki	J-pop J-pop , an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...
KickassTorrents			?
LegitTorrents	Legally redistributable media
LinuxTracker	Linux/open software
Megashara		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Mininova Mininova Mininova is a website offering BitTorrent downloads. Mininova was once one of the largest sites offering torrents of copyrighted material, but in November 2009, following legal action in the Dutch courts, the site operators deleted all torrent files uploaded by regular users including torrents that...	Legally redistributable media
Monova		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
NewTorrents	, recent releases only
NowTorrents		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
NyaaTorrents	Anime & otaku subculture
OpenBitTorrent OpenBitTorrent OpenBitTorrent is an open BitTorrent tracker project for the BitTorrent protocol.-Description:OpenBitTorrent's initiative to provide a free, stable service with no ties to indexing sites or even hosting torrent files has been a huge public success and it has spawned several copies with almost...
PickTorrent	Metasearch	No			No			No
PlentyofTorrents	Metasearch	?	?		?	?		?	?
PublicBitTorrent
Qtorrents	Metasearch	?	?		?	?		?	?
RapidTreggy		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
RARBG
Rutracker.org
ScaryWater	Anime & otaku subculture
ScrapeTorrent
SeedPeer
SmaragdTorrent
SumoTorrent
ShareReactor ShareReactor ShareReactor is an index site for files on the eDonkey network and Torrent files. ShareReactor does not host any files; instead, the links it contains are accessible through an eDonkey network and BitTorrent client. The site was taken down by Swiss Police on March 10, 2004 due to the suspicion of...		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website which hosts magnet links and .torrent files, which allow users to share electronic files, including multimedia, computer games and software via BitTorrent...							Not the top 100
Tokyo Toshokan	Anime & otaku subculture
Toorgle		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Torrent Crazy	Metasearch
Torrent-Finder	Other sites
Torrentech	Electronic music
TorrentFunk
TorrentPond	Metasearch
TorrentPortal
TorrentReactor
TorrentReactor.to
TorrentRoot	Metasearch	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
TorrentScan	Metasearch	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
TorrentTree	Metasearch	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Torrentz Torrentz Torrentz is a Finland-based meta-search engine for BitTorrent that is run by an individual known as Flippy. It indexes torrents from various major torrent sites such as Mininova, BTJunkie, and The Pirate Bay, and offers compilations of various trackers per torrent that are not necessarily present...	Metasearch
TorrentZap				semi
uSniff
Vertor	Extensive filtering	?	?		?	?	?	?	?
WiTorrent		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
yourBittorrent YourBittorrent yourBittorrent is an automated website, using Google to find BitTorrent websites on the internet. These websites are then crawled by bots and information about their files saved to the yourBittorrent.com database This is an automated process and yourBittorrent.com has no control over what is indexed...
Zoozle		?	?		?	?	?	?	?
Site	Specialization	Is a tracker	Directory	Public	RSS	One click download	Sortable	Comments	Multi-tracker index	Alexa Traffic Rank