Considering you aren't from the US, I would've thought that you would've been able to see that simply looking at US numbers clearly isn't an indicator of how popular a site as a whole is. Those numbers (for the US) do seem a little odd, and I'd be rather surprised if they actually turn out to be accurate. However, looking at one country by itself clearly is an incredibly skewed view of it, considering how on Alexa TL ranks as having over 4x as much traffic as IPT. It's evident that just looking at the US obliviously ignores the rest of the world in order to purposely skew your post. There is
no way you can say that TD will "overcome" TL anytime soon.
TorrentDay is also an
open registration tracker that has ads on pretty much every p2p related site and its mother (and how a new site managed to afford that is beyond me, it's clear that they either have an affiliation with IPT [which is why Merwais defends both], or that even worse, they are some shady established company with other, ulterior motives). TL is a
private site where you can only get in with an invite. Considering that, it isn't at all surprising that TD may experience a spike of users, but I guarantee you it won't last considering how shady it's history is.
Even if you completely disregard traffic at all, there still is the issue of faking the amount of peers and faking the amount of members on the site (you can argue all you want about the peers but it seems rather convenient that the actual peer list was always half of what was listed on the site). Even so there was very, very solid proof that they were utterly lying and exaggerating their member count as it was rather easy to check through UserID's (and the fact that the sysop of the site starts at 90,000+).
A site that will so blatantly deceive members like that is
not the type of site you should trust with all your personal information as you involve yourself in actions of questionable legality. I would never advise anyone to download from that site, in my mind it has completely destroyed any chance of trust it could ever have with its members.