Thanks for such a great input, George!
Hello Isis,
I think such an infographic will be quite interesting.
I feel that some of the most important PT numbers we are missing have to do with the bridge distribution problem. The way I see it, PTs and BridgeDB are two pieces of the same puzzle, and weirdly I've never seen any statistics from BridgeDB.
Specifically, here are some example statistics that I would find interesting:
- How many clients use BridgeDB?
- Which distributors are used most?
- Which PTs are asked most?
- What % of clients are using Tor vs connecting directly?
- What are the most popular client countries?
- How many unique bridges does BridgeDB give out daily/weekly
- Did BridgeDB usage decrease with the introduction of meek?
Some of the above statistics might also require some privacy-preserving obfuscation before publishing.
Is it feasible and easy to extract (any of) the information George listed above? I need to have all the information we want to put on this infographic by the end of next week.
I'm still not sure why we have no statistics on BridgeDB. It seems something that could point us to future research directions, and generally help us in strategizing against censors.
I've created https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19332 for this.