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Your question made me curious so I tried to see what information about onion sites is available. It’s hard to measure onions sites by design, but

https://99firms.com/research/tor-stats

Says there seem to be about 65k onion sites.

This site:

https://protectchildren.ca/en/press-and-media/blog/2025/tor-...

Has some varying numbers depending on the observation time, but in final month listed saw 30k sites that had they identified as having CSAM.

I’m not sure how accurate either number is or if they are directly comparable but that would be a 50% of all onion sites ballpark.

Not sure how to measure general sites vs dedicated abuse sites.



Looks like the tor metrics site says ~900k onion sites?

https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-v3-onions-seen.ht...


In reality there are fewer than 1000 "real" hidden services (see https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/ for HTTP response dumps) and an ocean of short-lived temporary spam onions, most of them pornography.




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