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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
  • 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 see these questions and answers about user statistics.

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Related events

The following events have been manually collected on this wiki page and might be related to the displayed graph.

Dates Places/Protocols Description and Links
2018-08-04 to 2018-08-05 Collector was missing consensuses. They were recovered via recent relay consensus diffs.
metrics-team thread tor-relays thread
2018-07-29 to 2018-08-08 Bangladesh Protests over road safety in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Reports of mobile network throttling and blocking of Facebook.
New York Times article Daily Star article on throttling
2018-07-28 to present Turkey Relays Unknown Another jump of relay users in Turkey, from 5k to about 30k.
relay graph bridge graph
2018-07-21 Bridges The estimated number of bridge users becomes available again, following the introduction of the new bridge authority Serge on 2018-07-13. The stats took about a week to reappear because of the discontinuity in bridge reporting affecting the estimated fraction of reporting bridges.
mailing list post graph

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