How to Check if your Site is Blocked by The Great Firewall of China?

As you are aware, the People’s Republic of China has blocked access to a select number of websites. Software known as the Great Firewall recognizes certain websites and blocks access to them for different parts of the nation. You can find out whether your website has been censored by China’s Great Firewall.

More About The Great Firewall

The Golden Shield Project was the inspiration behind China’s Great Firewall. It is a government-funded program run by the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Public Security section. The project’s objectives are to control websites and online material on the Chinese network and monitor all internet activity in the nation.

China has implemented the most sophisticated internet censorship methods, according to the extensive study conducted by the OpenNet Initiative. This is a link to their China research profile.

China’s Great Firewall applies officially sanctioned laws and regulations to tightly filter its internet traffic. In addition to banning foreign websites, it slows down cross-border internet traffic that aims to visit domestic websites.

To Check if your Site is Blocked by The Great Firewall

1. Click on any of these links:

• China Firewall Test
• Test if a site is blocked in China- Comparitech
• China’s Internet censorship- Blocky (Available in Chinese and English)

2. Enter your URL in the text box and check.

For example we used the tool from Comparitech to check if Hostvento’s URL is accessible in China:

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