The decision to block Rutracker entered into force
recently . Immediately after this, the discussion of the dynamics of resource attendance began in Runet. According to officials, the audience of the tracker should have been reduced, and quite significantly. According to the administration of Rutracker, this really happened, but the drop in attendance is relatively small.
In Roskomnadzor, a liveinternet resource attendance analysis was conducted,
claiming that the tracker’s audience had decreased by 30% immediately after the “perpetual blocking” took effect. A spokesman for Roskomnadzor, Vadim Ampelonsky, claims that the administration of a blocked resource does not indicate a significant drop in traffic to maintain the current level of advertisers. By the way, the results of blocking were summed up on GT,
right here .

The ministry generally believes that the torrent trackers will soon become the past. “The technological process does not stand still, it is clear that this technology is gradually becoming a thing of the past. I think that after a certain number of years we will remember the torrents as CDs on Gorbushka, ”
said Vadim Ampelonsky .
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According to representatives of Roskomnadzor, only 15% of users use additional blocking bypass tools (the department at the same time believes that the blocking bypass tools are
completely legal ).
In an interview with Channel Five, the Roskomnadzor spokesman also said that the majority of blocked sites made their statistics closed. And this, in his opinion, is done in order to hide the drop in attendance from advertisers. The journalist of the same channel reported that the traffic of the tracker fell by half. True, these words were not confirmed by facts.
As for Roskomnadzor, its representatives most likely compared the tracker's traffic before the holidays, when many media outlets wrote about the Rutracker conflict with the office (respectively, more users visited the resource) and after the holidays, when the blocking had already taken effect. In this case, it is indeed clear that traffic has decreased by about 30%.

If you look at the schedule by months, you will notice that the audience of the tracker has been consistently declining since February 2015.