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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”
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.

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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
2019-01-07 Bridges Release of tor 0.3.5.7, 0.3.4.10, and 0.3.3.11. Fixes the bug, present since 0.3.5.1-alpha/0.3.4.1-alpha, of idle bridges being unuseful.
comment ticket blog post ticket
2019-01-07 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 2B8A70B399CF8B471289A4DB52947DE965D8DE5F, geoip6-db-digest FEA33E6F398DF67252F41DDD3D010E69B33D544E).
commit
2019-01-07 to 2019-01-08 Gabon Internet shutdown in Gabon following a coup attempt.
OONI report NetBlocks report
2018-12-20 to present Sudan Protests and social media blocks in Sudan.
relay graph Access Now post Psiphon users
2018-12-18 to 2018-12-21 United Arab Emirates OR Reported blocking of vanilla Tor in the UAE.
comment
2018-12-05 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 0684E08BDC01ABB41A717E9C55BDEB21531CFAC8, geoip6-db-digest AFFAD1475879D57B1C1EA119141EFA0E57547290).
commit
2018-11-26 to 2018-11-28 Outage of the onionperf-us instance, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration.
mailing list post
2018-11-26 to 2018-11-28 flashproxy Outage of the flash proxy badge hosting server, flashproxy.bamsoftware.com, caused by a Greenhost east coast VPS migration.
2018-11-19 to 2018-11-27 Slow-running processes on the metrics host cause an observed drop in the overall relay bandwidth graph.
mailing list thread
2018-11-16 to 2018-11-22 snowflake A full disk stops the Snowflake bridge and fallback proxies from working.
ticket
2018-11-11 ipv4 ipv6 geoip and geoip6 databases updated to "November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country" (geoip-db-digest 603BE8A0CA1B7164D76DBC75A280C9CA0A556F65, geoip6-db-digest 1CEF662539C0D91EC07A7C5C13134E3317B451E4).
commit
2018-10-25 to 2018-10-28 Relays Gap in observed number of relay users, caused by the estimated fraction of reporting relays exceeding 100%.
metrics-team post ticket graph archived graph
2018-09-26 to present fte Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.162:8080.
comment
2018-09-26 to present fte Outage of default FTE bridge 128.105.214.163:8080.
comment
2018-07-28 to present Turkey Relays Unknown Another jump of relay users in Turkey, from 5k to about 30k.
relay graph bridge graph
2018-07-20 to 2019-05-02 onion Unknown The number of v2 onion services increases from 70k to 100k.
comment
2018-07-01 to present Uganda A social media tax takes effect in Uganda. The government pressures ISPs to block VPNs.
relay graph bridge graph BBC article AllAfrica article OONI report
2018-06-20 to present Venezuela Venezuela's largest ISP, CANTV, blocks direct access to Tor and the IP addresses of default bridges. meek and non-default bridges are reported to work.
ticket mailing list post Access Now report
2018-04-30 to present Iran Iranian ISPs block Telegram.
ticket article relay graph bridge graph Psiphon users
2018-03-28 to 2019-07-13 Chad Chad blocks social messaging apps.
article about end article about end graph
2018-01-05 to present Outage of the op-hk OnionPerf instance.
op-hk graph
2017-12-04 to present DDoS attack creates load on the network.
tor-relays thread relay graph summary post ticket
2017-08-07 to present Congo, The Democratic Republic of the The Democratic Republic of the Congo orders a block of social media services.
article relay graph bridge graph
2017-03-01 to 2018-11-12 United Arab Emirates OR Relays Unknown Another increase in relay users, slower and more sustained than the previous one.
graph ticket about end
2017-02-10 to present OR exit Measurement error from bandwidth authority causes decrease in measured bandwidth in Europe.
mailing list post
2016-12-15 to present Congo, The Democratic Republic of the The Democratic Republic of the Congo orders a block of social media services.
article relay graph bridge graph
2016-11-03 to present Turkey Turkey blocks Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp.
article
2016-10-25 to present Egypt OR Relays Egypt blocks Tor directory authorities and public relays by TCP RST. Bridges work.
OONI report
2015-12-31 to 2020-06-04 Mexico The Telmex ISP in Mexico blocks seven directory authorities.
mailing list post article

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