Index of Tor Website Fingerprinting Datasets

Synopsis

This data is based off of Table 2 from Jansen R, Wails R, and Johnson A. A measurement of genuine Tor traces for realistic website fingerprinting. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement (PAM). Springer, 2026.

This table indexes major, publicly available datasets used for Tor website fingerprinting experimentation. If you see an error or have a new dataset to add, please submit a pull request.

Datasets listing

The \(\bot\) symbol indicates an unnamed dataset. When the year of data collection is not mentioned, we assume it is around ("ca.") the associated article's publication date. \(N\), \(N_C\), \(N_I\), \(N_{Bg}\) are the total number of traces, number of positive classes, instances per positive class, and number of background traces.
Name Year Activity Activity detailed User model Trace generation software \(\mathit{N}\) \(\mathit{N_C}\) \(\mathit{N_I}\) \(\mathit{N_{Bg}}\) Link
\(\bot\) (Hermann) 2008 Web Links from real-world academic proxy server Index page Autofox \(8.5 \times 10^3\) 775 \(\approx 10\) Dead link
\(\bot\) (Cai) Ca. 2012 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.2.1/2 \(3.2 \times 10^4\) 800 \(\approx 40\) No
levdata2 Ca. 2013 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.2.4.7; TBB 2.4.7 \(4 \times 10^3\) 100 40 Online
levdata3 Ca. 2013 Web Popular blocked sites, Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.2.4.7; TBB 2.4.7 \(9 \times 10^2\) 4 10 \(8.6 \times 10^2\) Online
\(k\)-NN Ca. 2014 Web Sensitive sites, Alexa top sites Index page TBB 3.5.1; iMacros 8.6.0 \(1.4 \times 10^4\) 100 90 \(5 \times 10^3\) Online
\(\bot\) (Juárez) Ca. 2014 Web Alexa top sites, volunteer browsing Index page, visited pages TBB (2/3.X); Selenium \(4.3 \times 10^4\) 200 \(\approx 40\) \(3.5 \times 10^4\) On request
\(\bot\) (Wang) 2014 Web Sensitive sites, Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.3.6.4; TBB 3.6.4 \(9 \times 10^3\) 100 40 \(5 \times 10^3\) No
RND-WWW Ca. 2016 Web Twitter, Alexa one-click, Google Trends, Google Random, censored sites Random subpage TBB 3.6.1; Chickenfoot; iMacros; Scriptish \(1.6 \times 10^5\) 1125 40 \(1.2 \times 10^5\) Dead link
┅TOR-Exit Ca. 2016 Web HTTP requests of real Tor users Visited page TBB 3.6.1; Chickenfoot; iMacros; Scriptish \(2.1 \times 10^5\) \(2.1 \times 10^5\) Dead link
┅WEBSITES Ca. 2016 Web Popular websites Index page, random subpage TBB 3.6.1; Chickenfoot; iMacros; Scriptish \(5.3 \times 10^3\) 50 105 Dead link
\(\mathit{DS_{Tor}}\) Ca. 2016 Web Alexa top sites, popular .onion sites Index page TBB; Selenium \(1.1 \times 10^5\) 85 \(\approx 90\) \(1 \times 10^5\) Dead link
AWF \(\mathit{CW_{900}}\) 2017 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.2.8.11; TBB 6.5; Selenium \(2.3 \times 10^6\) 900 2500 Online
┅AWF Recollect 2017 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.2.8.11; TBB 6.5; Selenium \(1 \times 10^5\) 200 500 Online
┅AWF Open 2017 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.2.8.11; TBB 6.5; Selenium \(8 \times 10^5\) 200 2000 \(4 \times 10^5\) Online
DF Ca. 2018 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor-browser-selenium \(1.4 \times 10^5\) 95 1000 \(4.1 \times 10^4\) Online
WTT-time 2018 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.4.0.8; tor-browser-crawler \(8 \times 10^4\) 100 300 \(5 \times 10^4\) On request
\(\bot\) (Wang) 2019 Web Alexa top sites Index page tor 0.4.0.1; TBB 8.5a7 \(1 \times 10^5\) 100 200 \(8 \times 10^4\) Partially Online
┅Wikipedia 2019 Web Wikipedia browsing Random subpage tor 0.4.0.1; TBB 8.5a7 \(2 \times 10^4\) 100 100 \(1 \times 10^4\) Partially Online
Good Enough 2020 Web Alexa top pages, random subpage Index page TBB 9.0.2 \(2 \times 10^4\) 500 20 \(1 \times 10^4\) Online
GDLF-25 Ca. 2021 Web Alexa top sites Random subpage tor-browser-crawler \(9.4 \times 10^4\) 2400 39 On request
┅GDLF-OW Ca. 2021 Web Links from Rimmer et al. Random subpage tor-browser-crawler \(7 \times 10^4\) \(7 \times 10^4\) On request
BigEnough 2021 Web Open PageRank top pages Index page TBB \(3.8 \times 10^4\) 950 20 \(1.9 \times 10^4\) On request
Multi-tab 2022 Web Alexa top pages Index page (multi-tab) TBB; Selenium \(5.7 \times 10^5\) Online
\(D(\mathrm{tbs, tor})\) 2022 Web Wikipedia browsing Random subpage tor-browser-selenium \(2 \times 10^4\) 98 200 Online
Drift Ca. 2023 Web Popular websites, links from Rimmer et al. Index page TBB 11.0.10; tor-browser-selenium 0.6.3 \(1.5 \times 10^4\) 90 \(\approx 110\) \(5 \times 10^3\) Online
GTT23 2023 Any Real Tor usage Visited service Real client software \(1.4 \times 10^7\) \(\langle 1.1 \times 10^6 \text{ domains} \rangle\) On request
ALEXA-WSC-FG/BG Ca. 2024 Web Alexa top sites, random subpage Random subpage TBB 7.5.6 \(8.6 \times 10^5\) 9000 90 \(4.5 \times 10^4\) No
CW/OW Ca. 2024 Web Alexa top sites, random subpage Random subpage (multi-tab) TBB \(8.1 \times 10^4\) 1000 10 \(9.3 \times 10^3\) Online
D1–D7 2024 Web Tranco top sites Index page TBB 10.5; Chrome 112.0 \(7.4 \times 10^5\) 100 700 \(4 \times 10^3\) Online