We estimate the number of users by analyzing the requests induced by clients to relays and bridges.
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 check the documentation on Reproducible Metrics.
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 |
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2017-02-12 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest C0C6099CE335916862978F77756C0B42521A74B2 , geoip6-db-digest A54B14B9D47584E010F763D3EAE23C4726F4A8D5 ).
commit |
2017-02-10 to present | <OR> exit |
Measurement error from bandwidth authority causes decrease in measured bandwidth in Europe.
mailing list post |
2017-01-25 to 2017-04-05 | webstats |
Tor Browser update pings roughly halve. The beginning corresponds with the release of Tor Browser 6.5.2, which changed the app.update.url . The end doesn't correspond to any release.
ticket |
2017-01-24 |
Tor Browser 6.5 is released. It changes the app.update.url , which causes an apparent drop in update pings.
blog post graph ticket comment about app.update.url |
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2017-01-24 | snowflake |
Tor Browser 7.0a1 released, including Snowflake for GNU/Linux only.
blog post |
2017-01-22 | meek |
1.0-beta release of GAEuploader, a tool that automates the setting up of meek.
mailing list post |
2017-01-09 | meek |
Decreased the rate limit on the meek-azure bridge to 2.0 MB/s, from 3.0 MB/s.
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2017-01-04 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 672C29A4FA9BF81DE97CFE128741445E2BDE8097 , geoip6-db-digest 81F380639A8E1000539204949A363FD3BFAFBA74 ).
commit |
2016-12-21 to 2016-12-28 | <OR> Relays Unknown |
Drop in relay users.
metrics-team thread thread continues |
2016-12-13 | obfs4 |
Tor Browser 6.5a6 is released. It fixes the app.update.url . It adds (uncomments) the default obfs4 bridge NX01:443. It activates timing obfuscation for certain obfs4 bridges. It changes the port of other obfs4 bridges.
blog post |
2016-12-09 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 1317BB3525E85E01FB34A89E04CE549AC23D07BD , geoip6-db-digest 865048C69BEC02B37268BFBAD66D9729B21CFCF5 ).
commit |
2016-11-22 | meek |
Decreased the rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge to 2.0 MB/s, from 3.0 MB/s.
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2016-11-18 | obfs4 |
Default obfs4 bridge Lisbeth turns on timing obfuscation (iat-mode=1 ).
ticket |
2016-11-16 |
Tor Browser 6.5a4 is released. It changes the app.update.url .
blog post ticket |
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2016-11-15 | meek |
Tor Browser 6.0.6 is released, unbreaking meek on macOS 10.12 (Sierra). (See 2016-09-20 breaking event.)
blog post ticket |
2016-11-15 | obfs4 |
Default obfs4 bridges ndnop3 and ndnop5 turn on timing obfuscation (iat-mode ).
mailing list post ticket |
2016-11-07 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 363C038D0BE61D6E0A63C43DE8EA70771ED7BEA5 , geoip6-db-digest 6110A2B794AFF0180FD096A4759434CABD289C40 ).
commit |
2016-10-30 | meek |
Increased the rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge to 3.0 MB/s, from 1.0 MB/s.
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2016-10-28 | meek |
Decreased the rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge to 1.0 MB/s, from 3.0 MB/s.
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2016-10-19 to 2016-11-10 | meek |
Large decrease in meek users, perhaps caused by problems in Orbot 15.0.2 BETA 1 that were fixed in Orbot 15.2.0 RC8.
ticket initial email followup email Orbot mail |
2016-10-05 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest C14DF5AE94101562DEACDD296278B0EFA3EA26E5 , geoip6-db-digest A88A828020A558D37F97CF683D4521270F0511A2 ).
commit |
2016-09-28 | meek |
Rate limit on the meek-amazon bridge returns to 3.0 MB/s, having been set to about 1.0 MB/s for some time, cause uncertain.
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2016-09-24 | obfs3 |
Default obfs3 bridge LeifEricson upgrades and begins reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest. This is the last obfs3 bridge that hadn't upgraded.
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2016-09-24 | obfs4 |
Default obfs4 bridge LeifEricson upgrades and begins reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest. This is the last obfs4 bridge that hadn't upgraded.
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2016-09-23 to 2016-11-28 | obfs3 |
Outage of default obfs3 bridges "Unnamed" and "Unnamed" (fingerprint AF9F66B7B04F8FF6F32D455F05135250A16543C9). (Start date not known for sure, though it must have been after 2016-09-23; discussed in non-archived tor-team email.)
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2016-09-23 | obfs3 |
Default obfs3 bridges ndnop0 and ndnop2 upgrade and begin reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest.
post on bridges not reporting statistics |
2016-09-23 | obfs3 |
Default obfs3 bridges "Unnamed" and "Unnamed" (fingerprint AF9F66B7B04F8FF6F32D455F05135250A16543C9) upgrade and begin reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest.
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2016-09-23 | obfs4 |
Default obfs3 bridges ndnop3 and ndnop5 upgrade and begin reporting statistics to the new bridge authority Bifroest.
post on bridges not reporting statistics |
2016-09-20 | meek |
macOS 10.12 (Sierra) is released, breaking some programs that are built with Go <1.7, including the meek-client that comes with Tor Browser. (See 2016-11-15 unbreaking event.)
ticket |
2016-09-07 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 72F8AD2CD7C97D173AD53276366EAD32B13E0A50 , geoip6-db-digest B6427DEAD2291FBF8311A2233AF4960BF4009713 ).
commit |
2016-09-02 | Bridges |
The former bridge authority Tonga shuts down. Bridges that have not updated to tor 0.2.8.7 or 0.2.9.2-alpha (which include all 5 default obfs3 bridges and 3/16 default obfs4 bridges) stop reporting statistics.
shutdown notice blog post loss of reporting bridges |
2016-08-31 | Bridges |
CollecTor begins publishing bridge stats from the new bridge authority Bifroest.
post |
2016-08-24 | Bridges |
tor 0.2.8.7 and 0.2.9.2-alpha are released, changing the bridge authority from Tonga to Bifroest.
0.2.8.7 announcement |
2016-08-18 | meek |
Changed the meek-amazon CDN price class from "All" to "Use Only US, Canada and Europe."
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2016-08-12 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 9DD185BEC4F482DDD20A0221B3DD3F40175F0123 , geoip6-db-digest B1C1B6BDC9627E3D87530A2C70578AC69C20C5C6 ).
commit |
2016-07-18 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 19FC902B6A860BA7E4BADCB5404482995F7E0763 , geoip6-db-digest 7E717154718F2065240B90F8132F305AF78C9A9D ).
commit |
2016-06-12 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest DA31976A9C7D48C2C16EA70BCE9006772A0F4A34 , geoip6-db-digest FF1DD08CA9EB6528E1A6389E7154BD9586F24370 ).
commit |
2016-05-30 | fte |
Tor Browser 6.0 released, which lacks the fte pluggable transport on Mac.
6.0 blog post ticket |
2016-05-13 | meek |
meek-google's App Engine instance is suspended and meek-google stops working.
mailing list post |
2016-05-09 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 76631C314A048A59A1D801515CC7FD55CE719499 , geoip6-db-digest C9392F0337A7509F1187890925CF7006F884ECBA ).
commit |
2016-04-28 | fte |
Tor Browser 6.0a5 and 6.0a5-hardened released, which lacks the fte pluggable transport on Mac.
6.0a5 blog post 6.0a5-hardened blog post ticket |
2016-04-07 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "April 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest F9DFB82B6F1A480F07F4B87992CBFB7A48CB8DA2 , geoip6-db-digest 769B499E6AE9FE0C2366141B931A3DB1B5489114 ).
commit |
2016-03-27 to 2016-03-31 | meek |
Temporarily ran an experimental branch for IPv6 counting on the meek-azure bridge.
task-18460-2 branch |
2016-03-27 | meek |
Outage of meek-azure bridge, caused by an expired TLS certificate.
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2016-03-04 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest A34F49E5A871FA4D243C46C04B67BB3CAAFE6F74 , geoip6-db-digest 9C8C4F7C7612849C88206726FCDA8CB85B8D27F3 ).
commit |
2016-02-04 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "February 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 9E16EDBB826B958A7B8B84674EA98B78C13F1177 , geoip6-db-digest DF9538534517275080F8335DDEE4B879A3314ED4 ).
commit |
2016-01-16 | meek |
Increased rate limit of the meek-amazon bridge to 3 MB/s, from 1.1 MB/s.
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2016-01-15 | meek |
Increased rate limit of the meek-google bridge to 3 MB/s, from 1.1 MB/s.
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2016-01-14 | meek |
Increased rate limit of the meek-azure bridge to 3 MB/s, from 0.8 MB/s.
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2016-01-11 | meek |
Enabled client IP statistics on the meek-amazon bridge.
comment |
2016-01-07 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 44FC92E4D3F8C9A3A49EE9A594790C52E684298A , geoip6-db-digest BB261912C96611967FE5C1AE2700C965DBB8D61C ).
commit |
2015-12-25 | meek |
Established an unthrottled bridge C20658946DD706A7A2181159A1A04CD838570D04 for people who set up their own meek CDN configuration.
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2015-12-20 | meek |
Enabled client IP statistics on the meek-google bridge.
comment |
2015-12-14 | meek |
Enabled client IP statistics on the meek-azure bridge.
comment |
2015-12-05 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 6346E26E2BC96F8511588CE2695E9B0339A75D32 , geoip6-db-digest 43CCB43DBC653D8CC16396A882C5F116A6004F0C ).
commit |
2015-11-04 | meek |
Tor Browser 5.0.4 and 5.5a4 released, containing a fixed fingerprint for meek-amazon.
5.0.4 blog post 5.5a4 blog post ticket |
2015-10-30 | meek |
Altered the performance settings on the meek-google App Engine instance. Set max idle instances to 2 and min pending latency to 1000 ms. This used to be configured through the web interface but is now configured in an application file, which at some point caused the settings from 2015-02-28 to be lost.
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2015-10-30 | meek |
Further rate-limited the meek-azure bridge to 0.8 MB/s, from 1.1 MB/s.
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2015-10-09 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 5BF366AD4A0572D82A1A0F6628AF8EF7725E3AB9 , geoip6-db-digest 212DE17D5A368DCAFA19B95F168BFFA101145A93 ).
commit |
2015-10-09 | meek |
The fingerprint of the meek-amazon bridge changes, as a result of begin rebooted. Released Tor Browsers with the former fingerprint are unable to connect. The fingerprint changed from 4EE0CC769EB4B15A872F742EDE27D298A59DCADE to 6DDD1DB8526282837C50E9AB5D14AB50150CD624, then again to B9E7141C594AF25699E0079C1F0146F409495296. The new fingerprint shipped with Tor Browser 5.0.4 and 5.5a4 on 2015-11-04.
ticket |
2015-10-02 | meek |
Rate-limited the meek-azure bridge to 1.1 MB/s. (Azure grant expired.)
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2015-09-30 to 2015-10-09 | meek |
Outage of meek-amazon caused by an expired certificate. As a result of being rebooted, the bridge also changes its fingerprint from 4EE0CC769EB4B15A872F742EDE27D298A59DCADE to 6DDD1DB8526282837C50E9AB5D14AB50150CD624.
mailing list post about start mailing list post about end ticket |
2015-09-24 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 022B9BADD23D743E51F165FB4C87E78E59F0BCB8 , geoip6-db-digest DE13219FCF0F27999D1F91174CF80291B1746C95 ).
commit |
2015-09-23 | meek |
Upgraded meek-azure bridge from KVM to Xen.
blog post |
2015-08-11 | meek |
Tor Browser 5.0 and 5.5a1 released. They have an updated configuration to work around the meek-azure outage that started 2015-07-20.
blog post blog post ticket |
2015-07-29 | ipv4 ipv6 |
geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "July 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 6882B8663F74C23E26E3C2274C24CAB2E82D67A2 , geoip6-db-digest F063BD5247EB9829E6B9E586393D7036656DAF44 ).
commit |
2015-07-22 | meek |
Published a workaround for the meek-azure outage that started 2015-07-20.
mailing list post |
2015-07-20 to 2015-08-14 | meek |
Outage of meek-azure.
mailing list post about start mailing list post about end |
2015-06-09 | ipv4 |
geoip database updated to "June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest D095D62E8A1607C2C3AF61366929BCAD0E6D3184 ).
commit |
2015-06-09 | ipv6 |
geoip6 database updated to "June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip6-db-digest AC1BE3D0707D16AB04092FE00C9732658C926CD8 ).
commit |
2015-06-08 | meek |
Rate-limited the meek-amazon bridge to 1.1 MB/s.
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2015-06-02 | meek |
Further rate-limited meek-google to 1.1 MB/s, from 1.5 MB/s.
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2015-05-22 | meek |
Rate-limited the meek-google bridge to 1.5 MB/s.
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2015-04-27 | obfs4 |
Release of Tor Browser 4.5, the first stable release with obfs4.
blog post |
2015-04-24 | ipv4 |
geoip database updated to "April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 0A1F9C09E08F6F2490E8880664D4E863D1680A12 ).
commit |
2015-04-24 | ipv6 |
geoip6 database updated to "April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip6-db-digest A6E9B5DE6F887315749B29F9C9F698215BE5240A ).
commit |
2015-04-19 | meek obfs4 |
Release of Orbot v15 alpha 5, first release with obfs4.
mailing list post |
2015-04-15 | meek |
Tor Weekly News covers the meek-azure performance improvement.
blog post |
2015-04-08 | meek |
Implemented persistent connections for meek-azure, increasing performance.
mailing list post |
2015-03-09 | ipv4 |
geoip database updated to "March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest C1EB5237F2FBAF63381D8551157F13D12EFCCA25 ).
commit |
2015-03-09 | ipv6 |
geoip6 database updated to "March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip6-db-digest 1F99B6B0EC78E9DB34D61AE7E0FC261D558E8E5D ).
commit |
2015-02-28 | meek |
Altered performance settings on the meek-google App Engine instance in an effort to reduce instance hours. Set max idle instances to 4 and min pending latency to 500 ms.
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2015-02-14 | meek |
Release of Orbot v15-alpha-3, first release with meek.
mailing list post |
2015-01-22 | ipv4 |
geoip database updated to "January 7 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 49D309B9663C4EFB8D126D84BBB373D7C84658C3 ).
commit |
2015-01-22 | ipv6 |
geoip6 database updated to "January 7 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip6-db-digest 9B26276EA470137894566882885AD82701D38D62 ).
commit |
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