Tor Metrics
  • Metrics
  • Home
  • Users
  • Servers
  • Traffic
  • Performance
  • Onion Services
  • Applications
  • More
  • News
  • Sources
  • Services
  • Development
  • Research
  • About
Tor Metrics
  • Home
  • Users
  • Servers
  • Traffic
  • Performance
  • Onion Services
  • Applications
  • Home
  • Users

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”
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 check the documentation on Reproducible Metrics.

Download graph as PNG or PDF.

Download data as CSV.

Learn more about the CSV data format or how to reproduce the graph data.

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
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.
2016-01-15 meek Increased rate limit of the meek-google bridge to 3 MB/s, from 1.1 MB/s.
2016-01-14 meek Increased rate limit of the meek-azure bridge to 3 MB/s, from 0.8 MB/s.
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.
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

© 2009–2023 The Tor Project

Contact

This material is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS-0959138. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. "Tor" and the "Onion Logo" are registered trademarks of The Tor Project, Inc.. Data on this site is freely available under a CC0 no copyright declaration: To the extent possible under law, the Tor Project has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights in the data. Graphs are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.