fivethirtyeight.com

Mixed

Results vary across fivethirtyeight.com: of 7 URLs tested, 2 are disrupted some of the time and 5 load normally. 192 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-05-29, the most recent on 2026-08-21.

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://fivethirtyeight.com is not blocked, https://fivethirtyeight.com is intermittent.

The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.

7URLs tested
5accessible
192tests all-time
2015first tested
5 d agolast tested

The site itself

http://fivethirtyeight.comas of 2026Not blockedhttps://fivethirtyeight.comas of 2026Intermittenthttp://www.fivethirtyeight.comas of 2026Not blocked

Pages and subdomains (4)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-is-no-blue-wallas of 2026Not blockedhttp://projects.fivethirtyeight.comNot blockedhttps://projects.fivethirtyeight.comIntermittenthttp://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/as of 2026Not blocked

About fivethirtyeight.com and the Great Firewall

Is fivethirtyeight.com blocked in mainland China?

Results vary across fivethirtyeight.com: of 7 URLs tested, 2 are disrupted some of the time and 5 load normally. 192 tests have been run under this domain since 2015-05-29, the most recent on 2026-08-21.

Why does http://fivethirtyeight.com behave differently from https://fivethirtyeight.com?

Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://fivethirtyeight.com is not blocked, https://fivethirtyeight.com is intermittent. The two are filtered by different means — an unencrypted request by the address and keywords it carries in the clear, an encrypted one by the server name in its TLS handshake — so one working while the other does not is normal.

Elsewhere on the site

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