Statistics on the Gemini space

This page presents some statistics on the current state of the Gemini space. It has been updated on 2024-10-16 03:04:00Z.

It cannot claim to represent the entire space. The real number of URIs is certainly higher. There are several reasons why many URIs are not in the database:

the capsule may forbid retrieval, through robots.txt,

we do not know all the URIs and some cannot be found from the ones we know,

Lupa has a maximum number of URIs per capsule, to save resources (currently 10000).

On this page, "working" means there was a successful connection recently. "recently" means "less than 31 days". "Dead" URLs and capsules are removed after 46 days and no longer appear in any statistics.

Currently, our database includes 624,757 URIs, 524,826 of them having been checked successfully (status code 20) and recently. Among the recently accessed, 387,790 URIs serve a Gemini content.

Resources

The average size of the resources is 61,940 bytes.

Quantiles

10% of the resources are 261 bytes or less,

20% of the resources are 554 bytes or less,

30% of the resources are 994 bytes or less,

40% of the resources are 1,574 bytes or less,

50% of the resources are 2,639 bytes or less, MEDIAN

60% of the resources are 4,627 bytes or less,

70% of the resources are 7,208 bytes or less,

80% of the resources are 16,287 bytes or less,

90% of the resources are 80,307 bytes or less,

100% of the resources are 4,156,230 bytes or less.

#### Quantiles only for Gemini pages

10% of the resources are 225 bytes or less,

20% of the resources are 403 bytes or less,

30% of the resources are 733 bytes or less,

40% of the resources are 1,096 bytes or less,

50% of the resources are 1,704 bytes or less, MEDIAN

60% of the resources are 2,718 bytes or less,

70% of the resources are 4,610 bytes or less,

80% of the resources are 6,595 bytes or less,

90% of the resources are 11,458 bytes or less,

100% of the resources are 4,156,230 bytes or less.

Ranges

Less than 10 bytes: 3241 URLs (0.62 %)

10 to 100 bytes: 16256 URLs (3.1 %)

100 to 1000 bytes: 138516 URLs (26.4 %)

1 to 10 kbytes: 238049 URLs (45.4 %)

10 to 100 kbytes: 80001 URLs (15.2 %)

100 to 1000 kbytes: 29635 URLs (5.6 %)

More than 1000 kbytes: 19128 URLs (3.64 %)

Most common media (MIME) types

text/gemini: 387,790 URLs

text/plain: 30,902 URLs

image/png: 25,798 URLs

image/jpeg: 22,832 URLs

application/pdf: 14,069 URLs

application/octet-stream: 11,010 URLs

text/x-go: 5,491 URLs

image/svg+xml: 3,126 URLs

application/zip: 2,997 URLs

image/gif: 2,362 URLs

octet/stream: 1,944 URLs

application/x-mscardfile: 1,902 URLs

text/html: 1,864 URLs

audio/mpeg: 1,479 URLs

text/xml: 1,323 URLs

MIME: 998 URLs

text/x-diff: 912 URLs

application/javascript: 683 URLs

application/atom+xml: 674 URLs

application/json: 656 URLs

Most common languages

Unspecified: 393,614 URLs

en: 97,036 URLs

de: 11,887 URLs

it: 7,409 URLs

fr: 6,805 URLs

es: 2,373 URLs

es_ar: 1,273 URLs

fa: 1,018 URLs

ru: 611 URLs

ja: 586 URLs

arb: 403 URLs

en_gb: 376 URLs

en_au: 239 URLs

en_us: 201 URLs

grc: 165 URLs

pl: 158 URLs

he: 110 URLs

sv: 101 URLs

eo: 82 URLs

gl: 55 URLs

Most common language tags

Unspecified: 393,565 URLs

en: 42,178 URLs

en-us: 30,561 URLs

en-gb: 23,279 URLs

de: 11,838 URLs

it: 7,409 URLs

fr: 6,144 URLs

es-es: 1,721 URLs

es_ar: 1,273 URLs

fa: 1,018 URLs

fr-fr: 661 URLs

es: 614 URLs

ja: 586 URLs

en-ie: 476 URLs

ru: 439 URLs

arb: 403 URLs

en_gb: 376 URLs

en-ca: 355 URLs

en_au: 239 URLs

en_us: 201 URLs

Most common encodings ("charsets") for all files

(Remember there exists testing capsules, with very exotic encodings, so don't be surprised by some strange ones.)

Unspecified: 452,012 URLs

utf-8: 72,646 URLs

us-ascii: 99 URLs

binary: 43 URLs

gzip: 22 URLs

iso-8859-1: 2 URLs

bzip2: 2 URLs

Most common encodings for gemtext files only

Unspecified: 330,855 URLs

utf-8: 56,932 URLs

iso-8859-1: 2 URLs

us-ascii: 1 URLs

By the way, 382 of recently tested URLs (0.064 %) have a wrong encoding (it does not match the actual content).

Status codes

(Remember there are test capsules with funny status codes, to exercice Gemini clients.)

20 (Success): 524,826 occurrences (89.74 %)

51 (Not found): 28,253 occurrences (4.83 %)

44 (Slow down): 8,378 occurrences (1.43 %)

40 (Temporary failure): 6,551 occurrences (1.12 %)

60 (Client certificate request): 6,142 occurrences (1.05 %)

30 (Temporary redirect): 4,838 occurrences (0.83 %)

10 (Input request): 4,404 occurrences (0.75 %)

42 (CGI error): 920 occurrences (0.16 %)

31 (Permanent redirect): 203 occurrences (0.03 %)

50 (Permanent failure): 110 occurrences (0.02 %)

59 (Bad request): 91 occurrences (0.02 %)

53 (Proxy request refused): 85 occurrences (0.01 %)

Links

(We count only backlinks from external capsules, and at most one link per capsule. Also, we exclude links from capsules like search engines or directories.)

Maximum number of incoming links: 319

Average number of incoming links: 0.30

Capsules

There are 4094 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 2898 of them.

Most common capsules by number of working URLs

We have a limit of 10000 URLs per capsule.

mirrors.apple2.org.za: 10000 URLs

gemini.conman.org: 10000 URLs

midnight.pub: 10000 URLs

fumble-around.mediocregopher.com: 9999 URLs

gemini.omarpolo.com: 9997 URLs

1436.ninja: 9995 URLs

library.inu.red: 9993 URLs

hoagie.space: 9993 URLs

taz.de: 9987 URLs

gemini.tuxmachines.org: 9986 URLs

caiofior.pollux.casa: 9985 URLs

gemini.techrights.org: 9979 URLs

gemini.autonomy.earth: 9965 URLs

blitter.com: 9963 URLs

tjp.lol: 9956 URLs

gmi.noulin.net: 9950 URLs

bbs.geminispace.org: 9942 URLs

mozz.us:7070: 9924 URLs

scholasticdiversity.us.to: 9901 URLs

oracular.space: 9894 URLs

Most common capsules by number of bytes in working URLs

We have a limit of bytes per URL.

Not properly documented yet

1436.ninja: 9584.2 megabytes

mirrors.apple2.org.za: 2818.6 megabytes

nytpu.com: 1827.1 megabytes

gem.librehacker.com: 1026.0 megabytes

librehacker.com: 976.8 megabytes

uscoffings.net: 924.7 megabytes

gael.mooo.com: 756.4 megabytes

blitter.com: 687.0 megabytes

yam655.com: 598.3 megabytes

dfdn.info: 593.4 megabytes

jpfox.fr: 499.6 megabytes

hoagie.space: 498.6 megabytes

gemini.omarpolo.com: 387.5 megabytes

si3t.ch: 371.4 megabytes

b2khgkvb2wn4avjshjp63kknsjwikgwff5dwwydldia6qwf4kdnueyad.onion: 362.8 megabytes

library.inu.red: 325.3 megabytes

tweek.zyxxyz.eu: 313.2 megabytes

ecs.d2evs.net: 301.6 megabytes

going-flying.com: 260.3 megabytes

canary.city: 239.2 megabytes

gemi.dev: 225.3 megabytes

All working capsules:

As a text file

As a gemtext, with links

Certificates

2603 (89.8 %) capsules are self-signed, 21 (0.7 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 274 (9.5 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one).

78 capsules (2.70 %) have an expired certificate.

Algorithms:

ecdsa-with-SHA256: 1789 capsules

sha256WithRSAEncryption: 1004 capsules

ecdsa-with-SHA384: 77 capsules

ED25519: 19 capsules

sha512WithRSAEncryption: 5 capsules

ecdsa-with-SHA512: 3 capsules

Key types:

ECDSA: 1871 capsules

RSA: 1007 capsules

ED25519: 19 capsules

Key sizes for RSA:

2048: 732 capsules

4096: 263 capsules

3072: 8 capsules

1024: 3 capsules

8192: 1 capsules

Key sizes for ECDSA:

256: 1809 capsules

384: 61 capsules

521: 1 capsules

TLS

97 % of the capsules use TLS 1.3, 3 % use TLS 1.2.

robots.txt

301 (10 %) the capsules have a robots.txt exclusion file.

Ports

18 working capsules (0.6 %) use an alternative port

Addresses

1213 IP addresses used. 17 % are IPv6.

#### Addresses with most virtual hosts

173.230.145.243: 900 vhosts

72.65.51.74: 467 vhosts

213.219.38.200: 266 vhosts

46.23.81.157: 123 vhosts

2a03:6000:1813:1337::157: 99 vhosts

90.65.170.44: 33 vhosts

109.237.26.252: 31 vhosts

2a01:4ff:f0:4fb3::1: 30 vhosts

5.161.108.85: 30 vhosts

45.56.93.217: 19 vhosts

128.140.115.191: 13 vhosts

46.23.94.99: 10 vhosts

2a03:6000:6f67:624::99: 10 vhosts

23.88.35.144: 10 vhosts

2a01:4f8:c17:20f1::42: 10 vhosts

212.71.248.87: 10 vhosts

51.222.161.16: 9 vhosts

85.208.51.149: 8 vhosts

143.244.212.63: 8 vhosts

81.187.234.86: 8 vhosts

TLDs

There are 260 TLDs in the capsule's names, and 1983 registered domains.

Most common TLDs

#### By number of registered domains

com: 302 domains

net: 174 domains

org: 165 domains

xyz: 140 domains

space: 92 domains

site: 63 domains

dev: 60 domains

de: 58 domains

me: 48 domains

eu: 37 domains

uk: 34 domains

fr: 33 domains

info: 26 domains

io: 24 domains

club: 22 domains

onion: 17 domains

se: 17 domains

ru: 16 domains

ca: 16 domains

online: 15 domains

#### By number of capsules

(There's a strong bias towards TLDs which have hosting services such as flounder.online, which has many capsules in subdomains. See before the TLDs per registered domains, which are probably more useful.)