guardian.co.uk
Mixed
Results vary across guardian.co.uk: of 12 URLs tested, 9 are blocked and 3 are disrupted some of the time. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright, breaks its TLS handshake and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 1,172 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-06, the most recent on 2026-05-28.
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.
The site itself
http://guardian.co.ukas of 2026Intermittenthttps://guardian.co.ukas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.guardian.co.ukBlockedhttps://www.guardian.co.ukBlockedPages and subdomains (8)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/chinaas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/27/china-train-crash-inquiryas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/china-human-rights-crackdown-interactiveas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/31/tiananmen-square-prisoner-freedas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/21/no-enemies-hatred-liu-xiaobo-reviewBlockedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/03/ai-weiwei-detained-chinese-policeas of 2026Blockedhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/27/dead-british-businessmen-china-mi6-linksas of 2026Intermittenthttp://download.guardian.co.uk/audio/kip/football/series/footballweekly/1445871996371/3684/FW-oct26-2015_mixdown.mp3as of 2026IntermittentAbout guardian.co.uk and the Great Firewall
Results vary across guardian.co.uk: of 12 URLs tested, 9 are blocked and 3 are disrupted some of the time. The Great Firewall blocks the connection outright, breaks its TLS handshake and silently drops its packets so requests time out. 1,172 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-03-06, the most recent on 2026-05-28.
Plain HTTP and HTTPS differ here: http://guardian.co.uk is intermittent, https://guardian.co.uk is blocked. 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.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks guardian.co.uk. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
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