IPFS

Online Peers

Daily Unique CIDs

Daily IPNI Requests

Monitored Components

Bootstrappers

Kubo

Topology

DHT

Bitswap

IPNI

Gateways

Security

Core Statistics

Network structure, peer distribution, client diversity, and connection patterns analysis across the IPFS network.

Network Size

Network Size

The total number of peers in the network is estimated using the number of unique Peer IDs seen by Protocol Labs' bootstrap nodes. The number of unique DHT Server peer IDs identified by the Nebula crawler is then subtracted from the total number of peers (seen by the bootstrappers) to estimate the number of peers that exclusively function as DHT Clients.

Amino DHT Client vs Server Node Estimate

Unique Agents

Unique Agents

The total number of unique software agents operating in the network is estimated from those seen by Protocol Labs' bootstrap nodes when a peer connects. The number of unique agents seen by the Nebula crawler when crawling the IPFS DHT is included for comparison. The software agent strings have not been refined or processed, resulting in the count treating major and minor versions of each software agent as distinct entries.

Unique Software Agents seen in the IPFS Amino DHT

Measurement Tools

Our network monitoring employs advanced crawling and probing tools and techniques to gather comprehensive data about network health, topology, and performance.

Our Tools

Akai

A libp2p generic DA sampler for the Web3 space

DAS Guardian

A Data Availability Sampling tool to asses Ethereum Node's real custody

Bitswap Sniffer

A CID sniffer for content in IPFS over Bitswap and DHT requests

Tiros

A performance measurement tool for Kubo and IPFS-hosted websites.

Parsec

A DHT and IPNI lookup performance measurement tool.

Ants

A DHT monitoring tool for NAT'd peers.

Hermes

A lightweight GossipSub tracer.

Nebula

A network agnostic DHT crawler and monitoring tool