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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”
Relay users graph

This graph shows the estimated number of directly-connecting clients; that is, it excludes clients connecting via bridges. These estimates are derived from the number of directory requests counted on directory authorities and mirrors. Relays resolve client IP addresses to country codes, so that graphs are available for most countries. Furthermore, it is possible to display indications of censorship events as obtained from an anomaly-based censorship-detection system (for more details, see this technical report). 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
2019-11-14 snowflake Deployed webext-0.1.0 of the Snowflake proxy (which uses a new proxy–broker protocol) to snowflake.torproject.org.
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2019-11-14 snowflake ipv6 Changed DNS to point to the IPv6-enabled Snowflake broker.
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2019-11-13 snowflake Restarted the broker with a new proxy–broker protocol.
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2019-11-13 snowflake Released version 0.1.0 of the Snowflake extension for Firefox and Chrome, using a new proxy–broker protocol.
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2019-10-28 snowflake Version 0.0.13 of the Snowflake extension is released, decreasing the poll frequency to once every 300 s. The standalone proxy-go instances still poll once every 5 s.
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2019-10-17 snowflake Pointed snowflake-broker.torproject.net (one of three domain names for the Snowflake broker) to a new broker instance set up with IPv6. Metrics unintentionally start being collected from the new instance, instead of the old instance that was still in use.
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2019-10-01 snowflake Release of Tor Browser 9.0a7, the first release that has Snowflake for Windows.
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