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Looks like not a single Chinese site made to top 1k. I guess it's reasonable because all Google services were blocked so CrUX can't gather any data.

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Do Chinese people use chrome? One would think the download page is blocked as well, so the demographic for chrome users should be way smaller.

Also to consider: China uses in-app browsing a lot, with interactive experiences very similar to websites built right in the bilibili/ali/wechat apps.

> in-app browsing

But that's also just chromium isn't it, much like a PWA? Unless they made something of their own.

But does chromium phone home with this data? Surely not, I would've thought?

> One would think the download page is blocked as well

Contrary to popular belief, Google only pulled Search business out of China. The rest of services is still hosted on Google.cn inside China. To download Chrome:

$ curl -svk 'https://www.google.cn/intl/zh-CN/chrome/'

* Trying 180.163.150.34...

* TCP_NODELAY set

* Connected to www.google.cn (180.163.150.34) port 443 (#0)

However the "Make searches and browsing better (Sends URLs of pages you visit to Google)" data won't be collected, because the connection would be blocked.

I assume the data is aggregate across all devices. Chrome has 60% of desktop usage in China. But less than 10% on Mobile.

But in a market of near 1B internet user, not having a single site in top 1K suggest something is wrong with the stats. I wonder what are we missing from those numbers.

> The CrUX dataset is based on data collected from Google Chrome and is thus biased away from countries with limited Chrome usage (e.g., China).

Chrome is the dominate browser in China. Even if not Chrome, then it's Chromium-based alternative UI shells.

It's fascinating (and says a lot) that Google's internet monopoly persists even in places where it's outright banned.

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