Trends & statistics
Based on the latest verdict of 749,652 monitored URLs · snapshot 2026-10-20.
28%of tested URLs blocked
147,088blocked URLs
534,645conclusive URLs
749,652URLs analyzed
Blocked sites over time
Currently-blocked sites, grouped by the year GreatFire first tracked them. The line is the cumulative total.
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.
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 · 147,088Redirected inside mainland China · 763Intermittent · 110,219Not blocked · 276,575Unresolvable · 153,435Not enough data · 61,572
Most-blocked domains
google.com40,304 blockedwsj.com9,496 blockedscmpchinese.com4,423 blockedwikipedia.org3,077 blockedblogspot.com991 blockednytimes.com723 blockedyoutube.com673 blockedhec.su627 blockedfacebook.com543 blockedtumblr.com472 blockedis.gd453 blockedx.co444 blockedtinyurl.com404 blockedpixnet.net362 blockedgreatfire.org361 blockedBlocked by TLD
.com98,894
.org10,722
.net5,371
.com.tw1,720
.io1,052
.cc929
.co851
.me842
.de812
.tm810
.su784
.tv771