Trends & statistics
Based on the latest verdict of 709,230 monitored URLs · snapshot 2026-08-11.
27%of tested URLs blocked
133,678blocked URLs
492,984conclusive URLs
709,230URLs 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 · 133,678Redirected inside mainland China · 769Intermittent · 56,138Not blocked · 302,399Unresolvable · 142,539Not enough data · 73,707
Most-blocked domains
google.com39,846 blockedwsj.com9,477 blockedscmpchinese.com3,654 blockedwikipedia.org3,035 blockedblogspot.com980 blockednytimes.com721 blockedyoutube.com657 blockedwordpress.com635 blockedhec.su545 blockedfacebook.com537 blockedtumblr.com462 blockedis.gd451 blockedx.co440 blockedtinyurl.com370 blockedpixnet.net359 blockedBlocked by TLD
.com91,345
.org9,697
.net4,713
.com.tw2,107
.io859
.cc784
.co779
.tm750
.me726
.tw726
.de690
.su679