Trends & statistics
Based on the latest verdict of 711,979 monitored URLs · snapshot 2026-08-21.
27%of tested URLs blocked
137,306blocked URLs
514,622conclusive URLs
711,979URLs 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 · 137,306Redirected inside mainland China · 785Intermittent · 51,991Not blocked · 324,540Unresolvable · 148,342Not enough data · 49,015
Most-blocked domains
google.com40,253 blockedwsj.com9,477 blockedscmpchinese.com3,782 blockedwikipedia.org3,039 blockedblogspot.com985 blockednytimes.com721 blockedyoutube.com655 blockedwordpress.com604 blockedhec.su559 blockedfacebook.com538 blockedtumblr.com478 blockedis.gd452 blockedx.co440 blockedtinyurl.com390 blockedpixnet.net360 blockedBlocked by TLD
.com93,420
.org9,885
.net4,893
.com.tw2,105
.io910
.cc821
.co803
.tm760
.me755
.tw736
.tv714
.de713