Trends & statistics

Based on the latest verdict of 755,162 monitored URLs · snapshot 2026-11-04.

27%of tested URLs blocked
147,166blocked URLs
538,074conclusive URLs
755,162URLs analyzed

Blocked sites over time

Currently-blocked sites, grouped by the year GreatFire first tracked them. The line is the cumulative total.

073,583147,1662011: 3,520 New per year2012: 9,245 New per year2013: 11,260 New per year2014: 23,652 New per year2015: 19,232 New per year2016: 12,001 New per year2017: 6,840 New per year2018: 5,873 New per year2019: 5,557 New per year2020: 4,655 New per year2021: 4,367 New per year2022: 7,902 New per year2023: 7,933 New per year2024: 12,099 New per year2025: 2,612 New per year2026: 10,418 New per year20112013201520172019202120232025
Cumulative blockedNew per year

How much slower is the same page from mainland China?

On fetches that succeeded from both sides, a page arrived in mainland China at 9.9% of the control's speed in 2026. Blocked fetches are excluded — this is the cost of the crossing when nothing was blocked at all.

0681350%50%100%2011: 9 vs 48 kB/s · 86810 paired tests2012: 10 vs 48 kB/s · 46356 paired tests2013: 16 vs 68 kB/s · 11566 paired tests2014: 18 vs 74 kB/s · 7213 paired tests2015: 19 vs 88 kB/s · 4631 paired tests2016: 17 vs 84 kB/s · 5544 paired tests2017: 20 vs 87 kB/s · 5391 paired tests2018: 24 vs 92 kB/s · 4326 paired tests2019: 21 vs 100 kB/s · 4483 paired tests2020: 18 vs 122 kB/s · 4585 paired tests2021: 22 vs 135 kB/s · 4362 paired tests2022: 25 vs 130 kB/s · 4663 paired tests2023: 22 vs 133 kB/s · 4344 paired tests2024: 21 vs 122 kB/s · 4868 paired tests2025: 17 vs 121 kB/s · 5376 paired tests2026: 17 vs 127 kB/s · 2815 paired tests20112013201520172019202120232025
Control (US), median kB/sMainland China, median kB/sChina as % of control (right axis)

Measured on a fixed basket of 1200 URLs — tested every year since 2011, hosted outside mainland China, reachable from both sides — so the line follows speed rather than a changing mix of sites. Absolute speeds are page-fetch throughput and also reflect changes in our own probes over 15 years; the share is the comparable figure.

Verdict breakdown

Blocked · 147,166Redirected inside mainland China · 816Intermittent · 132,936Not blocked · 257,156Unresolvable · 155,217Not enough data · 61,871