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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 transport graph

This graph shows the estimated number of clients connecting via bridges. These numbers are derived from directory requests counted on bridges. Bridges distinguish connecting clients by transport protocol, which may include pluggable transports, so that graphs are available for different transports. 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
2021-07-06 snowflake Release of Tor Browser 10.5, first stable release that includes Snowflake.
blog post
2021-06-20 to 2021-06-24 Algeria Social media blocking during national high school exams.
SMEX
2021-06-15 snowflake Snowflake bridge down for scheduled upgrade.
comment
2021-06-12 to 2021-06-13 snowflake Outage of Snowflake bridge.
issue
2021-06-10 to present Experiment to test latencies between relays.
status.torproject.org post announcing start
2021-06-10 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:17:29 GMT" (geoip-db-digest 900E9BD6C8B8679A1539F7F316974E86618038B2, geoip6-db-digest 456BCA0796A27F8C80674EE89B1323F8310BED39).
commit
2021-06-04 to present Nigeria Block of Twitter in Nigeria. Increase in the number of bridge users.
article relay graph bridge graph
2021-05-17 to 2021-06-05 Experiment to test the accuracy of relays' advertised bandwidth estimation.
status.torproject.org post announcing start post announcing end advertised bandwidth graph relay flags graph
2021-05-14 to 2021-05-18 meek Unknown The number of meek users temporarily drops to < 10.
graph
2021-05-12 to 2021-06-21 snowflake Error in stats collection at the Snowflake bridge; user count is erroneously zero.
merge request comment on start comment on end user count graph
2021-05-07 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Fri, 07 May 2021 05:18:14 GMT" (geoip-db-digest AE864EA783E3776E4950859B5B35F412977F876F, geoip6-db-digest 7008D77E958D919E432AAE7F5C2002B14604FFFE).
commit
2021-05-05 Turkmenistan meek Unknown Drop in meek users in Turkmenistan, from over 200 to almost zero.
bridge user and transport graph
2021-05-03 snowflake Outage of snowflake bridge.
comment
2021-04-13 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Tue, 13 Apr 2021 05:11:07 GMT" (geoip-db-digest D63E30D25E7767178177C53A0248083011B4202A, geoip6-db-digest 891E8F6FBC7973144E335F0D815B5AF6B6DDF74B).
commit
2021-04-09 Turkmenistan obfs4 Turkmenistan blocks the default obfs4 bridge hopperlab, the last remaining obfs4 bridge at the time.
comment
2021-04-01 to present Myanmar Shutdowns of wireless broadband in Myanmar.
Access Now post
2021-03-16 ipv4 ipv6 Release of tor 0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, and 0.4.5.7. Changes the source of geolocation databases from Maxmind to IPFire.
blog post announcement ticket commit
2021-03-14 Turkmenistan obfs4 Turkmenistan blocks the default obfs4 bridges PraxedisGuerrero and smallerRichard.
comment
2021-03-12 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:05:24 GMT" (geoip-db-digest 7EFC262380D93924340A0000DF78EC4DD3BFC0E5, geoip6-db-digest B53EF6F829B6A1B1DD242835B6A23580178FBE13).
commit
2021-03-11 Belarus Relays Unknown Drop of relay users in Belarus. Bridge users are not affected.
relay graph bridge graph
2021-03-10 Fire in the OVHcloud data centers located in Strasbourg takes about 48 relays offline in AS16276.
OVHcloud advisory Twitter thread
2021-03-09 flashproxy Decommissioned flash proxy badge server, flashproxy.bamsoftware.com.
2021-03-08 flashproxy Decommissioned flash proxy facilitator: server, flashproxy-reg-email poller, and flashproxy-reg-appspot app.
2021-03-08 snowflake Outage of the Snowflake bridge.
ticket
2021-02-15 to 2021-04-27 Myanmar Nightly shutdowns of fixed-line Internet in Myanmar.
relay graph bridge graph OONI report IODA for start IODA for end Access Now post censorship-analysis issue
2021-02-13 Belarus Bridges meek obfs4 Blocking of default obfs4 bridges and email-distributed bridges in Belarus. Relay users are not affected.
ticket BBS thread NTC thread relay graph bridge graph
2021-02-06 to 2021-02-07 Myanmar Internet shutdown in Myanmar.
relay graph bridge graph OONI report IODA
2021-01-31 to 2021-02-01 Myanmar Partial Internet shutdown after coup in Myanmar.
relay graph bridge graph article IODA OONI report
2021-01-27 snowflake Deployed version 0.5.3 of the Snowflake WebExtension, with improvements to NAT handling.
archive ticket comment
2021-01-26 Bridges Release of Tor Browser 10.5a8, which fixes the bug preventing the use of default bridges.
blog post issue
2021-01-20 Bridges Release of Tor Browser 10.5a7, which has a bug preventing the use of default bridges.
blog post issue issue
2021-01-17 to 2021-01-21 snowflake Unknown Decrease in measured Snowflake users. May have been caused by a drop of NAT-unrestricted proxies.
mailing list thread comment
2021-01-13 to 2021-01-17 Uganda Internet shutdown in Uganda during general election.
OONI report
2021-01-10 to 2021-02-03 onion Large amounts of traffic at directory authorities disrupts consensus, which causes v3 onion services to stop working because of a bug. Tor 0.3.5.13, 0.4.3.8, and 0.4.4.7 have a fix for the bug.
ticket blog post onion service traffic graph Tor blog post Tor Browser blog post status.torproject.org
2021-01-07 snowflake Changed the DNS records for snowflake.freehaven.net and snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com to be CNAME records for the corresponding torproject.net domains, rather than bamsoftware.com, in order to avoid malware warnings.
ticket
2021-01-01 to present China snowflake Unknown Increased failure to bootstrap using Snowflake from China.
comment

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