CgPeers

If you look at the name of the website closely, you will be able to determine its function. However, for people who are new to the digital landscape, a part of the website’s name ‘CG’ stands for Computer Graphics.

The website specializes in the distribution of torrents that comprise digital art, VFX, and design software. It has an enormous free indie content library that can be accessed by the members of the website. Even though CGPeers is a private website, it has a large user base that keeps growing every day.

Is CGPeers safe?

For a torrent site to be safe for browsing, it needs to have an SSL certificate, which CGPeers does have. By using tools such as SEOQuake and MOZ, you can easily check the credibility of a website by gauging Domain Score (DS) and Trust Score (TS). Based on my research, CGPeers has a domain score of 11 and a trust score of 31 which is better than most sites out there. Sure, it’s not uncommon for torrent sites to have a DS less than 15 and a TS less than 40. But given that CGPeers is already 9 years old and still hasn’t managed to surpass a DS of 15 is slightly disappointing.

What should you expect from CGPeers?

Becoming a member of CGPeers gets you numerous benefits other than the ability to access and download torrents. Here are some of them.

Speed – As mentioned above, speed is one of the best benefits that you can get from the website. Unlike other torrent websites where you have to spend days waiting for a large file to download, CGPeers enables you to download such files within hours.

The high speed is a result of the high number of seeders and leechers that the website has for every torrent. Members of the website seed torrents, to maintain their ratio and also help community members.

Requests – Requests is one of the best pages on such torrent websites. This page allows you to post a request for the file you want or the one that has been deleted, and the members of the group will try to upload it within a stipulated time. There are a huge number of requests posted in the group every day and the easiest or the most relevant ones get fulfilled sooner.

Easy To Maintain Ratio – Ratio is a very important factor on private torrent websites. It reminds the users to maintain a balance of upload and download and keeping the website community alive. CGPeers has a ratio requirement of 1.0 which can be managed easily by seeding torrents of fulfilling the requests on the requests page. Apart from these, you can also upload your artwork on the website which can get you more ratio points.

No user class – Most of the torrent websites have user classes or ranks that define the contribution of the members. User class is often used by websites to block certain members from accessing some of the website’s content.

CGPeers does not have the user class system and lets the members of the website access all the content and benefits. There are only a few reservations that are kept for the staff members and admins, who look after the functioning of the website and have the ability to ban torrents.

Forum – When a website has a large number of users, the forums are often very lively. Similarly, CGPeers has an active forum page that is used by its members to discuss numerous topics which include problems, artwork, tutorials, and more. All the members of the website have access to the forum and can create a new topic or respond to the existing ones. However, they have to keep the forum rules in mind when participating in any of the forums.

CGPeers in numbers

CGPeers has more than 300,000 torrents that cover the different categories of computer graphics. There are around 300,000 members on the website who contribute to the growth of the website by seeding or adding torrents to the gallery.

Every day the website is accessed by 23k users and more than 75k users weekly. The website offers commendable speed for downloads as it has 122,799 seeders and less than 12k leechers. CGPeers receives 21k requests from its various members out of which more than 25% have been fulfilled by now.

As per the SEOQuake rankings, CGPeers is ranked #40,140 which makes it amongst the top 45,000 websites on the internet. It attracts more than 1.7 million visits a month with an average of 205,000 unique visitors. An average visit on the site lasts for more than 13 minutes. An average user visits 4.19 pages before bouncing off the website. In terms of engagement, CGPeers does surpass all my expectations. Due to the incredible user interaction, it is able to maintain a commendable bounce rate at 34.04%

How to access CGPeers?

You can access CGPeers by searching for the term ‘cgpeers.to’ in your search engine. Alternatively, if you want to access the platform directly, you can use the following link: CGPeers.

Design

The website used to have a bright golden layout previously, it was then dropped for a more sophisticated dark layout which looks wonderful. CGPeers is made of elements like links, icons, search boxes, checkboxes, tables, buttons, and texts.

Header – The header of the website has a simple design with sizable buttons that take you to the different pages of the website. It consists of options like ‘Home’, ‘Torrents’, ‘Requests’, ‘Forum’, ‘Blog’, ‘IRC Chat’, ‘Top 10’, ‘Rules’, and ‘Staff’.

Inner Pages – The inner pages are designed to match the distinctive features of the page. There are some pages that have a similar design such as browse torrents and top 10, apart from them the most distinctive page on the website is the requests page.

The requests page is made of numerous elements which include search boxes, checkboxes, buttons, and tables. It is one of the few pages on the website that keeps getting updated on a daily basis.

Free Indie Content – The website is dedicated to Computer Graphics and has an extensive free indie content library consisting of the same. More torrents are added every day and there are no download restrictions except ratio maintenance. The free indie content of the website comprises different categories like Full Applications, Plugins, Tutorials, Models, Misc, and Game Dev. CGPeers has some strict rules when it comes to indie content and should be referred before uploading torrents on the website.

Desktop/Mobile experience

The website has a desktop layout which lets you use the numerous elements conveniently. It fits the aspect ratio of the screen from end-to-end due to less use of images and videos, the website loads pretty quickly.

The mobile users will have to manage the desktop layout and use the functions of the website by zooming in and out to use the elements of the website. You need to have a stable internet connection of at least 5-7 Mbps to get the best website experience.

Suggestions I have for CGPeers

CGPeers is a great source for creative digital artists where they can find wonderful artworks to create or complete their design. Though there is very little that can be done to find and delete incomplete files, the staff members can make some users as moderators to check the newly added torrents and approve them.

Conclusion

Creative designers must not spend a lot of time to find designs or computer graphics to complete their wonderful artworks. Which is why websites like CGPeers can be of great help. They provide you all the resources in one place and that too without any additional cost. Thus, CGPeers, no doubt, is a dream website for every designer.