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Weekly observatory digest · auto-generated

Week 2026-W38 · Mainland China

Sep 14 – Sep 20 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Sep 20· Generated

No national outage was recorded in Mainland China this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was GitHub (+25%); Tor bridge users averaged 2,348 a day (−233 on last week); 365VPN led the tool ranking.

1,924 tests recorded this week

IODA · Cloudflare Radar

Outages and anomalies

National outages and traffic anomalies that started or were still running this week.

No national outage was recorded this week.

Data source: IODA (Georgia Tech) (public API)Cloudflare Radar (Cloudflare data terms)last sync

OONI · web_connectivity

Website anomaly-rate movers

Anomaly rate per website measured by OONI probes this week, against last week, ordered by the size of the change.

WebsiteThis weekLast weekChangeSamples
GitHub50%25%+25%30
Wikipedia100%80%+20%10
X78%65%+13%54
ChatGPT80%69%+11%10
Google88%80%+7.5%8
Instagram23%25%−2.3%164
Discord43%44%−1.3%54
YouTube24%23%+1.3%164
Facebook21%22%−0.2%168
Telegram Web100%0

Data source: OONI (CC BY-SA 4.0)last sync

OONI · proxy tool tests

Proxy tool success rate

How often OONI probes reached each tool this week, against last week.

ToolThis weekLast weekChangeSamples
Tor7%1%+5.5%107
Tor Snowflake25%83%−58%4
Psiphon81%88%−7.2%151
RiseupVPN0
STUN73%76%−2.6%1,291

Data source: OONI (CC BY-SA 4.0)last sync

Tor Metrics

Tor bridge users

Estimated daily Tor bridge users in this region: this week's mean against last week's, with the most used transports worldwide on the right.

Daily mean, this week2,348−233
Daily mean, last week2,581
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
07-27Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks09-18
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs4104,677
  • snowflake98,882
  • webtunnel33,536

Data source: Tor Metrics (CC0)last sync

Cloudflare Radar · IQI

Direct-connection quality (weekly mean)

Weekly mean bandwidth, latency and DNS resolution of direct connections to Cloudflare from this region; the difference from last week in brackets.

  • Bandwidth3.3Mbps(+0.1)Last week: 3.2 Mbps
  • Latency191ms(−6)Last week: 197 ms
  • DNS resolution29ms(−1)Last week: 30 ms

Data source: Cloudflare Radar (Cloudflare data terms)last sync

Tool ranking · 60-day medians

Top 10 tools

60-day median ranking as of this week (services only); arrows show the move from last week.

RankToolMedian speedvs last week
1365VPN3.32 MB/s
2小地球仪4.03 MB/s
3Shadowsocks.com3.19 MB/snew
4影子2.87 MB/snew
5快连3.71 MB/snew
6bitznet3.17 MB/s2
7HotspotShield5.61 MB/s4
8闪连3.11 MB/snew
9吹雪云2.56 MB/s2
10良心云2.63 MB/s4

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Sep 20

New in the top 10: Shadowsocks.com; 影子; 快连; 闪连

Out of the top 10: 黑石; 星辰; 万达云; ikuuu

GreatFire Analyzer · mainland China only

GreatFire verdicts

GreatFire's latest verdict for these 10 websites (state at sync time, not a weekly snapshot).

Data source: GreatFire Analyzer (public page)last sync