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Weekly observatory digest · auto-generated

Week 2026-W42 · Mainland China

Oct 12 – Oct 18 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Oct 18· Generated

1 outages or anomalies were recorded in Mainland China this week; the largest drop in OONI anomaly rate was Wikipedia (−20%); Tor bridge users averaged 2,549 a day (−105 on last week); AirTCP led the tool ranking.

2,377 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) · 10/18, 00:00 UTC → 10/18, 01:00 UTC · critical · country · ping-slash24 · score 4626

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
Wikipedia80%100%−20%10
Google83%100%−17%12
ChatGPT86%100%−14%14
Discord50%39%+11%52
Instagram37%32%+4.9%130
YouTube34%29%+4.4%122
X86%89%−2.4%58
GitHub52%53%−0.9%25
Facebook32%32%+0.3%130
Telegram Web—100%—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%0%+6.6%61
Tor Snowflake43%25%+18%7
Psiphon53%72%−19%101
RiseupVPN———0
STUN76%77%−1.0%969

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 week2,549−105
Daily mean, last week2,654
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
08-24Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks10-18
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs4101,943
  • snowflake58,570
  • webtunnel37,851

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.

  • Bandwidth3.4Mbps(−0.1)Last week: 3.5 Mbps
  • Latency187ms(+3)Last week: 184 ms
  • DNS resolution26ms(−1)Last week: 27 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
1AirTCP3.79 MB/snew
2猫猫云3.49 MB/s▲ 1
3超实惠加速5.32 MB/s▼ 2
4bitznet3.44 MB/s▼ 2
5黑石3.13 MB/s▲ 1
6闪连2.64 MB/s▼ 2
7xsus3.26 MB/snew
8fastlink3.76 MB/s=
9龙猫云3.36 MB/snew
10linkcube5.12 MB/snew

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Oct 18

New in the top 10: AirTCP; xsus; 龙猫云; linkcube

Out of the top 10: 吹雪云; 飞鸟云; 悠兔; 影子

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