Censorship

8 May 2020

There is some evidence that China might be censoring COVID Reference. Google Analytics data of two dozen websites, both medical (Amedeo, Free Medical Journals, FreeBooks4Doctors) and non-medical (TheWordBrain, Ear2Memory, GigaSardinian, GigaMartinique, SardoXSardi, Polish Yiddish, Amour de Filles, Magersucht.de, and ItalianWithElisa, among others) show that by number of visitors, China was always among the Top 10 countries, generating between 3.3% and 14.8% of website traffic (see further below).

Not so with COVID Reference. Six weeks after the launch of COVID Reference, China is 27th, after Paraguay, accounting for 0.39% of global traffic. Someone is standing on the data line between COVID Reference and China.

Figure 1. Google Analytics data for www.CovidReference.com on 8 May 2020. Six weeks after the launch of COVID Reference, China is 27th, after Paraguay and before the Netherlands and Russia.

 

Medical and non-medical websites

Amedeo
Free Medical Journals
FreeBooks4Doctors
TheWordBrain
Ear2Memory
GigaMartinique