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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
2023-07-18 snowflake Restarted snowflake-server on the snowflake-02 bridge with num-turbotunnel=8.
comment
2023-07-18 snowflake Restarted snowflake-server on the snowflake-01 bridge with num-turbotunnel=8.
comment
2023-07-18 snowflake Restarted snowflake-server on the snowflake-01 bridge with num-turbotunnel=1.
comment
2023-07-01 snowflake Restarted snowflake-01 bridge after testing performance optimizations.
comment
2023-06-30 The number of allowed relays per IP address (AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr) is increased from 2 to 8.
announcement issue
2023-06-29 snowflake Restarted snowflake-01 bridge to test an optimization.
comment
2023-06-29 snowflake Restarted snowflake-01 bridge to test an optimization.
comment
2023-06-29 webtunnel Announcement of WebTunnel availability.
announcement
2023-06-29 snowflake Restarted snowflake-01 bridge to test an optimization.
comment
2023-06-28 snowflake Restarted snowflake-01 bridge for a profiling change.
comment
2023-06-01 conjure Announcement of Conjure availability.
announcement BBS thread
2023-05-31 snowflake Release of Orbot 17.1.0-BETA-2-tor.0.4.7.11.
release
2023-05-22 snowflake Restarted the snowflake-01 bridge for an upgrade.
comment
2023-05-21 snowflake Restarted the snowflake-02 bridge for an upgrade.
comment
2023-05-12 to 2023-05-14 China snowflake Block of Snowflake default front domain in China.
issue BBS thread forum thread
2023-01-20 to present webstats Unknown Tor Browser update pings drop temporarily. A similar effect is present in other years.
graph issue
2021-06-10 to present Experiment to test latencies between relays.
status.torproject.org post announcing start
2021-01-01 to present China snowflake Unknown Increased failure to bootstrap using Snowflake from China.
comment
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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