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Weekly observatory digest · auto-generated

Week 2026-W39 · Mainland China

Sep 21 – Sep 27 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Sep 27· Generated

1 outages or anomalies were recorded in Mainland China this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was ChatGPT (+12%); Tor bridge users averaged 2,558 a day (+164 on last week); 猫猫云 led the tool ranking.

1,795 tests recorded this week

IODA · Cloudflare Radar

Outages and anomalies

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

  • IODA (Georgia Tech) IODA (Georgia Tech) · 09/25, 02:00 UTC → 09/25, 11:00 UTC · critical · country · gtr · score 22725

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
ChatGPT92%80%+12%13
X88%78%+10%59
Wikipedia90%100%−10.0%10
Facebook30%21%+9.0%151
Google82%88%−5.7%11
YouTube28%24%+4.7%137
Instagram26%23%+3.9%140
GitHub48%50%−2.2%23
Discord44%43%+1.3%57
Telegram Web100%——1

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
Tor0%6%−6.4%90
Tor Snowflake20%25%−5.0%5
Psiphon71%81%−9.6%140
RiseupVPN———0
STUN75%73%+2.2%1,190

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 week2,558+164
Daily mean, last week2,394
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
08-03Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks09-25
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs499,644
  • snowflake57,364
  • webtunnel34,888

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.

  • Bandwidth3.6Mbps(+0.3)Last week: 3.3 Mbps
  • Latency185ms(−6)Last week: 191 ms
  • DNS resolution29ms(+0)Last week: 29 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
1猫猫云3.77 MB/snew
2365VPN3.32 MB/s▼ 1
3Shadowsocks.com3.34 MB/s=
4影子2.87 MB/s=
5小地球仪4.03 MB/s▼ 3
6HotspotShield5.61 MB/s▲ 1
7星辰4.52 MB/snew
8闪连3.11 MB/s=
9黑石3.05 MB/snew
10良心云2.51 MB/s=

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Sep 27

New in the top 10: 猫猫云; 星辰; 黑石

Out of the top 10: 快连; bitznet; 吹雪云

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