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Weekly observatory digest · auto-generated

Week 2026-W44 · Mainland China

Oct 26 – Nov 1 (UTC, Monday to Sunday)· Data through Nov 1· Generated

3 outages or anomalies were recorded in Mainland China this week; the largest rise in OONI anomaly rate was Wikipedia (+21%); Tor bridge users averaged 4,186 a day (+1,376 on last week); linkcube led the tool ranking.

2,975 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) · 11/01, 12:00 UTC → 11/01, 18:41 UTC · critical · country · gtr · score 19371
  • IODA (Georgia Tech) IODA (Georgia Tech) · 10/30, 08:30 UTC → 10/30, 11:00 UTC · critical · country · gtr · score 3446
  • IODA (Georgia Tech) IODA (Georgia Tech) · 10/27, 17:00 UTC → 10/28, 00:30 UTC · critical · country · gtr · score 21599

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
Wikipedia78%57%+21%9
Discord24%38%−14%54
X83%73%+10%54
GitHub38%30%+7.9%29
Instagram20%28%−7.4%153
Google53%60%−6.7%15
YouTube18%24%−5.5%147
ChatGPT64%67%−3.0%11
Facebook21%23%−1.5%160
Telegram Web100%100%±0%2

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
Tor13%46%−33%72
Tor Snowflake0%40%−40%3
Psiphon60%66%−6.0%140
RiseupVPN———0
STUN65%73%−7.3%1,218

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 week4,186+1,376
Daily mean, last week2,811
Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks
09-07Bridge users in this region, last 8 weeks10-29
Global transports (daily mean)
  • obfs4238,951
  • snowflake81,570
  • webtunnel73,973

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(−0.0)Last week: 3.3 Mbps
  • Latency188ms(−3)Last week: 191 ms
  • DNS resolution27ms(+0)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
1linkcube5.16 MB/s▲ 1
2悠兔3.51 MB/s▲ 5
3ssone5.32 MB/snew
4AirTCP3.44 MB/s▼ 3
5黑石3.37 MB/s▼ 1
6尔湾云2.60 MB/snew
7猫猫云2.87 MB/s▼ 2
8mitce4.40 MB/s▲ 2
9超实惠加速4.15 MB/s▼ 6
10xsus3.26 MB/s▼ 1

From the GreatFire ranking snapshot of Nov 1

New in the top 10: ssone; 尔湾云

Out of the top 10: 影子; 闪连

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