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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
2021-10-08 to 2021-11-14 Netherlands Relays Unknown Temporary quintupling of direct users from the Netherlands.
relay graph
2021-10-03 to present Egypt Relays Unknown Increase of relay users in Egypt.
Twitter thread relay graph
2021-10-01 to 2021-10-07 Belarus Relays Increase of users in Belarus, relay only. According to OONI data, the Tor Project website was unblocked and Tor direct connections were accessible for a few days and, then, it was blocked again.
graph OONI Tor test
2021-09-22 to 2021-10-07 Experiment to investigate the accuracy of relays' advertised bandwidth.
status.torproject.org mailing list post advertised bandwidth graph
2021-08-31 to 2021-09-12 Brazil Relays Increase of users in Brazil, relay only, due protests.
graph article
2021-08-27 to 2021-09-08 Experiment to investigate the accuracy of relays' advertised bandwidth.
status.torproject.org mailing list post advertised bandwidth graph
2021-08-12 to 2021-08-14 Zambia Block of social media websites and WhatsApp during the national elections. Increase in the number of users.
article ticket OONI report relay graph bridge graph
2021-08-12 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "IPFire Project Thu, 12 Aug 2021 05:51:15 GMT" (geoip-db-digest B3A9770171D3060502B7F13C0618BE109B92DF6C, geoip6-db-digest 410B70763FC675B3622264FAA0FC67B78FDE30C2).
commit
2021-08-08 Ukraine Relays Unknown Large increase of relay users in Ukraine. Bridge users unaffected.
comment anti-censorship team discussion relay graph bridge graph
2021-07-22 to 2021-07-31 Turkmenistan Relays Unknown Decrease in relay users by 75% in Turkmenistan, following a period of elevated usage that began in early 2021.
ticket anti-censorship team discussion NTC thread

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