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Users

We estimate the number of users by analyzing the requests induced by clients to relays and bridges.

  • Relay users
  • Bridge users by country
  • Bridge users by transport
  • Bridge users by country and transport
  • Bridge users by IP version
  • BridgeDB requests by requested transport
  • BridgeDB requests by distributor
  • Top-10 countries by relay users
  • Top-10 countries by possible censorship events
  • Top-10 countries by bridge users
  • “The anonymous Internet”
Bridge users by country and transport graph

This graph shows the estimated number of clients connecting via bridges. These numbers are derived from directory requests counted on bridges. Bridges resolve client IP addresses of incoming directory requests to country codes, and they distinguish connecting clients by transport protocol, which may include pluggable transports. Even though bridges don't report a combination of clients by country and transport, it's possible to derive and graph lower and upper bounds from existing usage statistics. For further details check the documentation on Reproducible Metrics.

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Related events

The following events have been manually collected in the metrics-timeline Git repository and might be related to the displayed graph.

Dates Places/Protocols Description and Links
2022-05-23 Release of Tor Browser 11.0.13, the first stable release with congestion control.
blog post
2022-05-12 Uzbekistan meek Unknown meek users in Uzbekistan drop to zero.
issue bridge users graph
2022-05-06 snowflake Upgraded the network uplink of the Snowflake bridge from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps.
issue
2022-04-27 Release of tor 0.4.7.7, the first release with congestion control.
forum post blog post
2022-04-12 snowflake Stopped the tor instances flakey1–flakey8 on the interim Snowflake bridge, leaving only instances flakey1–flakey4 running on the new bridge.
comment
2022-04-11 snowflake Moved Snowflake traffic to a new bridge running instances flakey1–flakey4.
comment
2022-04-11 snowflake Started a new Snowflake bridge running tor instances flakey1–flakey4, temporarily running in parallel with the interim bridge with its instances flakey1–flakey8.
comment
2022-03-19 snowflake Stopped the tor instances flakey1–flakey4 on the old Snowflake bridge, leaving only instances flakey1–flakey8 running on the interim bridge.
comment
2022-03-18 snowflake Restarted the interim Snowflake bridge to correct a problem with onion keys.
comment
2022-03-16 snowflake Moved Snowflake traffic to the interim bridge running instances flakey1–flakey8.
comment
2022-03-15 snowflake Started an interim Snowflake bridge running tor instances nicknamed flakey1–flakey8, temporarily running in parallel with the main bridge with its instances flakey1–flakey4.
comment
2022-02-28 Bridges BridgeDB moves to an rdsys backend.
announcement issue
2022-02-18 snowflake Outage of the Snowflake bridge.
mailing list post alert failed alert succeeded
2022-02-04 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Fri, 04 Feb 2022 05:51:31 GMT" (geoip-db-digest C4F1B5ECF1B07BBECBE06B93926E4D1E62882782, geoip6-db-digest 0E43B5C62033BFE47F32742D8C9F5B5F83180AA4).
commit
2022-02-01 Tor 0.3.5 reaches end of life.
mailing list post
2022-01-31 snowflake Switched the snowflake bridge from a load-balanced staging server back to the now load-balanced production server. Debugged connection problems until 2022-01-31 19:52:04.
issue comment comment
2022-01-30 snowflake Rebuilt the production bridge, which had run a single flakey instance, to run four instances flakey1–flakey4.
comment
2022-01-28 snowflake Switched the snowflake-server (at the time running on a load-balanced staging server) for a version with CPU profiling.
comment
2022-01-25 snowflake Switched the snowflake bridge to the temporary load-balanced staging server. Debugged connection problems until 2022-01-25 18:47:00.
issue comment post comment
2022-01-24 snowflake Started a temporary load-balanced Snowflake staging server running four instances flakey1–flakey4. Ran in parallel with the existing production instances (single flakey until 2022-01-30 04:51:00, flakey1–flakey4 thereafter) and the flakey1–flakey4 instances of the practice staging bridge until 2022-02-03 05:39:24.
comment
2022-01-24 to 2022-02-10 Uzbekistan Relays Unknown Temporary decrease in relay users in Uzbekistan.
relay users graph
2022-01-17 to 2022-02-03 snowflake Ran a practice Snowflake staging bridge with four instances flakey1–flakey4, initially in parallel with the production bridge running a single flakey instance.
comment mailing list post
2022-01-12 to 2022-08-08 webstats Unknown Tor Browser update pings drop temporarily. A similar effect is present in other years.
graph issue issue
2022-01-07 snowflake Increased capacity of the mapping to client IP addresses on the snowflake bridge.
issue deployment comment
2021-12-29 snowflake Outage of the snowflake bridge.
comment alert failed alert succeeded
2021-12-22 snowflake Rebooted the Snowflake bridge to increase the number of CPUs from 4 to 8.
issue
2021-12-20 snowflake Release of Tor Browser 11.0.3, with an altered DTLS fingerprint in Snowflake to counteract blocking in Russia.
blog post issue NTC post
2021-12-15 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Wed, 15 Dec 2021 06:07:42 GMT" (geoip-db-digest BE1D08BC7B80B1D94CC1B67E5F59CECE9D282F99, geoip6-db-digest E7C6C7875CF972346E01F8E87E87E77D939437DB).
commit
2021-12-14 snowflake Release of Tor Browser 11.5a1, with an altered DTLS fingerprint in Snowflake to counteract blocking in Russia.
blog post issue NTC post
2021-12-08 obfs4 Release of Tor Browser 11.0.2, containing a new default obfs4 bridge "deusexmachina".
blog post issue
2021-11-17 to 2022-02-02 obfs4 Run a Tor Bridge campaign, offers rewards for running obfs4 bridges.
blog post about start blog post about end
2021-06-10 to present Experiment to test latencies between relays.
status.torproject.org post announcing start
2018-09-26 to present fte Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.162:8080.
comment
2018-09-26 to present fte Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.163:8080.
comment
2018-01-05 to present Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance.
op-hk graph
2017-12-04 to present DDoS attack creates load on the network.
tor-relays thread relay graph summary post ticket
2017-02-10 to present OR exit Measurement error from bandwidth authority causes decrease in measured bandwidth in Europe.
mailing list post

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