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Week 2026-W40 · Mainland China

Sep 28 – Oct 4 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Oct 4· Generated

2 outages or anomalies were recorded in Mainland China this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was GitHub (+21%); Tor bridge users averaged 2,416 a day (−135 on last week); 猫猫云 led the tool ranking.

2,016 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) · 10/02, 02:30 UTC → 10/02, 05:00 UTC · critical · country · gtr · score 5853
  • IODA (Georgia Tech) IODA (Georgia Tech) · 10/01, 02:00 UTC → 10/01, 11:00 UTC · critical · country · gtr · score 23359

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
GitHub69%48%+21%13
Discord24%44%−20%84
Google100%82%+18%8
Wikipedia100%90%+10.0%6
Instagram31%26%+4.5%126
X85%88%−2.8%82
ChatGPT90%92%−2.3%10
Facebook30%30%−0.5%127
YouTube28%28%−0.5%118
Telegram Web100%100%±0%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
Tor3%0%+2.6%38
Tor Snowflake29%20%+8.6%7
Psiphon79%71%+7.5%95
RiseupVPN———0
STUN76%75%+0.5%977

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 week2,416−135
Daily mean, last week2,551
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
08-10Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks10-02
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs4103,106
  • snowflake55,915
  • webtunnel34,631

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(−0.3)Last week: 3.6 Mbps
  • Latency188ms(+3)Last week: 185 ms
  • DNS resolution27ms(−2)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/s=
2Shadowsocks.com3.19 MB/s▲ 1
3影子2.67 MB/s▲ 1
4HotspotShield5.61 MB/s▲ 2
5小地球仪3.82 MB/s=
6闪连2.64 MB/s▲ 2
7黑石3.05 MB/s▲ 2
8吹雪云2.56 MB/snew
9QuickQ3.08 MB/snew
10fastlink3.76 MB/snew

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Oct 4

New in the top 10: 吹雪云; QuickQ; fastlink

Out of the top 10: 365VPN; 星辰; 良心云

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