Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics

This page presents some statistics on the current state of the Gemini space. It has been updated on 2026-01-06 04:04:01Z.  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 646,369 URIs, 560,646 of them having been checked successfully (status code 20) and recently. Among the recently accessed, 431,340 URIs serve a Gemini content.  Resources The average size of the resources is 46,339 bytes.  Quantiles 10% of the resources are 306 bytes or less, 20% of the resources are 674 bytes or less, 30% of the resources are 1,098 bytes or less, 40% of the resources are 1,466 bytes or less, 50% of the resources are 2,318 bytes or less, MEDIAN 60% of the resources are 3,902 bytes or less, 70% of the resources are 6,768 bytes or less, 80% of the resources are 14,821 bytes or less, 90% of the resources are 63,909 bytes or less, 100% of the resources are 4,156,230 bytes or less. # Quantiles only for Gemini pages 10% of the resources are 273 bytes or less, 20% of the resources are 524 bytes or less, 30% of the resources are 851 bytes or less, 40% of the resources are 1,136 bytes or less, 50% of the resources are 1,466 bytes or less, MEDIAN 60% of the resources are 2,279 bytes or less, 70% of the resources are 3,537 bytes or less, 80% of the resources are 5,781 bytes or less, 90% of the resources are 10,011 bytes or less, 100% of the resources are 4,156,230 bytes or less. Ranges Less than 10 bytes: 1380 URLs (0.25 %) 10 to 100 bytes: 12513 URLs (2.2 %) 100 to 1000 bytes: 141180 URLs (25.2 %) 1 to 10 kbytes: 271587 URLs (48.4 %) 10 to 100 kbytes: 89482 URLs (16.0 %) 100 to 1000 kbytes: 33186 URLs (5.9 %) More than 1000 kbytes: 11318 URLs (2.02 %) Most common media (MIME) types text/gemini: 431,340 URLs image/jpeg: 35,445 URLs text/plain: 25,736 URLs image/png: 23,934 URLs application/octet-stream: 10,889 URLs image/webp: 7,788 URLs application/pdf: 5,370 URLs image/gif: 2,696 URLs application/zip: 2,563 URLs octet/stream: 1,954 URLs application/x-mscardfile: 1,928 URLs text/html: 1,512 URLs audio/mpeg: 1,041 URLs text/x-diff: 864 URLs text/markdown: 815 URLs audio/ogg: 739 URLs application/atom+xml: 639 URLs application/json: 588 URLs text/xml: 549 URLs image/svg+xml: 343 URLs Most common languages Unspecified: 383,664 URLs en: 121,355 URLs de: 20,574 URLs fr: 13,024 URLs es: 9,242 URLs it: 7,635 URLs es_ar: 1,273 URLs ru: 684 URLs fa: 572 URLs ja: 560 URLs grc: 420 URLs en_au: 252 URLs arb: 202 URLs en_us: 154 URLs pl: 131 URLs sv: 129 URLs he: 93 URLs gl: 62 URLs ko: 56 URLs fr,it: 47 URLs Most common language tags Unspecified: 383,613 URLs en: 58,319 URLs en-gb: 42,784 URLs de: 20,526 URLs en-us: 19,274 URLs fr: 11,147 URLs it: 7,635 URLs es: 7,072 URLs es-es: 2,069 URLs fr-fr: 1,877 URLs es_ar: 1,273 URLs fa: 572 URLs ja: 560 URLs en-ie: 478 URLs grc: 420 URLs en-ca: 409 URLs ru-ru: 356 URLs ru: 328 URLs en_au: 252 URLs arb: 202 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: 488,732 URLs utf-8: 71,650 URLs binary: 161 URLs us-ascii: 75 URLs gzip: 21 URLs iso-8859-1: 6 URLs xz: 1 URLs Most common encodings for gemtext files only Unspecified: 370,176 URLs utf-8: 61,157 URLs iso-8859-1: 6 URLs us-ascii: 1 URLs By the way, 457 of recently tested URLs (0.075 %) 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): 560,646 occurrences (94.98 %) 51 (Not found): 17,919 occurrences (3.04 %) 10 (Input request): 3,356 occurrences (0.57 %) 30 (Temporary redirect): 3,146 occurrences (0.53 %) 60 (Client certificate request): 2,894 occurrences (0.49 %) 40 (Temporary failure): 772 occurrences (0.13 %) 53 (Proxy request refused): 547 occurrences (0.09 %) 42 (CGI error): 266 occurrences (0.05 %) 50 (Permanent failure): 239 occurrences (0.04 %) 31 (Permanent redirect): 171 occurrences (0.03 %) 52 (Gone with the wind): 138 occurrences (0.02 %) 59 (Bad request): 88 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: 381  Average number of incoming links: 0.28  Capsules There are 4825 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3251 of them.  Most common capsules by number of working URLs We have a limit of 10000 URLs per capsule.  gemini.kpopify.me: 10000 URLs x5dragonfire.flounder.online: 10000 URLs blitter.com: 10000 URLs dvd.flounder.online: 10000 URLs gemini.conman.org: 10000 URLs gemini.oxydable.fr: 10000 URLs gemini.techrights.org: 10000 URLs gemini.tuxmachines.org: 9999 URLs federal.cx: 9998 URLs fumble-around.mediocregopher.com: 9994 URLs musicbrainz.uploadedlobster.com: 9994 URLs gmi.noulin.net: 9990 URLs gemini.omarpolo.com: 9990 URLs caiofior.pollux.casa: 9990 URLs station.martinrue.com: 9970 URLs taz.de: 9967 URLs techrights.org: 9965 URLs library.inu.red: 9952 URLs bbs.geminispace.org: 9932 URLs gemlog.stargrave.org: 9914 URLs Most common capsules by number of bytes in working URLs We have a limit of bytes per URL.  Not properly documented yet mirrors.apple2.org.za: 2453.8 megabytes nytpu.com: 2079.5 megabytes higeki.jp: 1503.7 megabytes gem.librehacker.com: 1040.6 megabytes librehacker.com: 954.6 megabytes uscoffings.net: 927.2 megabytes gael.mooo.com: 754.6 megabytes blitter.com: 687.1 megabytes dfdn.info: 596.0 megabytes going-flying.com: 448.6 megabytes gemini.tcrouzet.com: 415.5 megabytes tweek.zyxxyz.eu: 379.0 megabytes norayr.am: 377.8 megabytes villastraylight.online: 371.6 megabytes techrights.org: 339.9 megabytes ecs.d2evs.net: 320.9 megabytes gemini.kpopify.me: 310.6 megabytes library.inu.red: 281.2 megabytes 8by3.net: 260.2 megabytes gemi.dev: 250.5 megabytes gem.ortie.org: 228.9 megabytes All working capsules:  As a text file As a gemtext, with links Certificates 3006 (92.5 %) capsules are self-signed, 5 (0.2 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 240 (7.4 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one).  93 capsules (2.87 %) have an expired certificate.  Algorithms:  ecdsa-with-SHA256: 2046 capsules sha256WithRSAEncryption: 1096 capsules ecdsa-with-SHA384: 79 capsules ED25519: 25 capsules ecdsa-with-SHA512: 3 capsules sha512WithRSAEncryption: 2 capsules sha384WithRSAEncryption: 1 capsules Key types:  ECDSA: 2128 capsules RSA: 1099 capsules ED25519: 25 capsules Key sizes for RSA:  2048: 815 capsules 4096: 279 capsules 3072: 3 capsules 1024: 2 capsules Key sizes for ECDSA:  256: 2068 capsules 384: 59 capsules 521: 1 capsules TLS 99 % of the capsules use TLS 1.3, 1 % use TLS 1.2.  robots.txt 317 (10 %) the capsules have a robots.txt exclusion file.  Ports 23 working capsules (0.7 %) use an alternative port  Addresses 1263 IP addresses used. 27 % are IPv6.  # Addresses with most virtual hosts 173.230.145.243: 1079 vhosts 72.65.51.74: 549 vhosts 213.219.38.200: 328 vhosts 46.23.81.157: 143 vhosts 2a03:6000:1813:1337::157: 123 vhosts 86.194.163.71: 46 vhosts 109.237.26.252: 34 vhosts 45.56.93.217: 21 vhosts 172.236.4.52: 18 vhosts 128.140.115.191: 16 vhosts 143.244.176.58: 10 vhosts 2604:a880:4:1d0::4e1:3000: 10 vhosts 2a01:4f8:c17:20f1::42: 9 vhosts 23.88.35.144: 9 vhosts 46.23.94.99: 9 vhosts 129.151.254.123: 9 vhosts 143.244.212.63: 8 vhosts 2001:8b0:1d97:eeca:3da5:94ce:b61e:ee69: 8 vhosts 81.187.234.86: 8 vhosts 2a03:6000:6f67:624::99: 8 vhosts TLDs There are 277 TLDs in the capsule's names, and 2248 registered domains.  Most common TLDs # By number of registered domains com: 361 domains net: 212 domains org: 179 domains xyz: 154 domains space: 99 domains site: 75 domains de: 64 domains dev: 63 domains me: 56 domains eu: 41 domains uk: 37 domains fr: 37 domains info: 30 domains io: 28 domains club: 24 domains onion: 20 domains ru: 19 domains online: 18 domains ca: 18 domains se: 18 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.)  online: 1093 capsules org: 788 capsules com: 452 capsules pub: 344 capsules net: 255 capsules xyz: 178 capsules space: 123 capsules site: 78 capsules de: 73 capsules dev: 72 capsules me: 58 capsules eu: 58 capsules cc: 57 capsules casa: 54 capsules club: 53 capsules fr: 41 capsules uk: 41 capsules info: 37 capsules io: 33 capsules town: 27 capsules Other statistics on the geminispace At the search engine geminispace.info At the search engine TLGS By Nervuri (specially for certificates) Contact Maintained by Stéphane Bortzmeyer (email ). Comments and criticisms are welcome.  Home page of the crawler Source code of the crawler My capsule