Week 2026-W42 · Russia
Oct 12 – Oct 18 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Oct 18· Generated
1 outages or anomalies were recorded in Russia this week; the largest drop in OONI anomaly rate was Discord (−5.7%); Tor bridge users averaged 91,425 a day (−1,494 on last week); Red Shield VPN led the tool ranking.
224 tests recorded this week
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 4680
Data source: IODA (Georgia Tech) (public API)Cloudflare Radar (Cloudflare data terms)last sync
Website anomaly-rate movers
Anomaly rate per website measured by OONI probes this week, against last week, ordered by the size of the change.
| Website | This week | Last week | Change | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discord | 58% | 64% | −5.7% | 4,583 |
| ChatGPT | 8% | 5% | +3.5% | 360 |
| X | 72% | 75% | −3.3% | 4,844 |
| GitHub | 3% | 0% | +2.6% | 968 |
| 80% | 78% | +1.2% | 12,871 | |
| YouTube | 55% | 56% | −1.2% | 11,402 |
| Wikipedia | 1% | 0% | +1.1% | 265 |
| 78% | 77% | +1.0% | 12,687 | |
| 0% | 0% | ±0% | 350 | |
| Telegram Web | — | — | — | 0 |
Data source: OONI (CC BY-SA 4.0)last sync
Proxy tool success rate
How often OONI probes reached each tool this week, against last week.
| Tool | This week | Last week | Change | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tor | 2% | 3% | −0.7% | 10,586 |
| Tor Snowflake | 25% | 32% | −6.7% | 209 |
| Psiphon | 20% | 19% | +1.4% | 16,482 |
| RiseupVPN | 100% | 100% | ±0% | 73 |
| STUN | 63% | 64% | −0.8% | 96,851 |
Data source: OONI (CC BY-SA 4.0)last sync
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.
- obfs4101,943
- snowflake58,570
- webtunnel37,851
Data source: Tor Metrics (CC0)last sync
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.
- Bandwidth11.2Mbps(−0.3)Last week: 11.4 Mbps
- Latency66ms(+1)Last week: 64 ms
- DNS resolution79ms(+3)Last week: 76 ms
Data source: Cloudflare Radar (Cloudflare data terms)last sync
Top 10 tools
60-day median ranking as of this week (services only); arrows show the move from last week.
| Rank | Tool | Median speed | vs last week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Shield VPN | 5.92 MB/s | ＝ |
| 2 | hidemy.name VPN | 4.41 MB/s | ▲ 1 |
| 3 | StealthSerf | 4.55 MB/s | new |
| 4 | SotaVpn | 3.01 MB/s | new |
| 5 | GreatFireVPN | 2.63 MB/s | ＝ |
| 6 | Amnezia | 2.31 MB/s | ▲ 2 |
| 7 | DarkPrince VPN | 3.30 MB/s | ▼ 3 |
| 8 | NordVPN | 1.81 MB/s | ▼ 2 |
| 9 | AdGuard VPN | 1.83 MB/s | new |
| 10 | Paper | 1.16 MB/s | ＝ |
From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Oct 18
New in the top 10: StealthSerf; SotaVpn; AdGuard VPN
Out of the top 10: Hiddify; BlancVPN; Browsec VPN