Telegram channel insights
What we measure across the channels in our directory — subscribers, growth, views and activity. Real figures, with the sample size beside each one.
Live from the directory · calculated
The reports
- Telegram statisticsOfficial user figures and live channel statistics.
- State of channelsHow many channels, how big, how active.
- Channel growthMedian 30-day subscriber change by size.
- Views by channel sizeViews, engagement rate and posting pace.
- Inactive channelsWhen channels last posted.
- Category growthEvery category by size and growth.
- Engagement by categoryEngagement rate and views per post in each category.
Most statistics about Telegram channels are guesses. A third-party site estimates an audience, a marketing blog repeats a number it cannot trace back to anything, and a channel owner is left comparing their own figures with figures nobody actually measured. This page takes the opposite approach: every figure on it comes from channels listed in our directory and from what Telegram itself shows on each channel's public page. The figures above are recalculated from the live directory every few hours, and the reports linked from this page go into each topic in more detail.
What these insights measure
TGDirectory reads four things from every approved public channel, without needing a bot inside the channel or a login.
- Subscribers. The count Telegram prints on the channel's public web preview, the same number a visitor sees before joining.
- Subscriber history. One real subscriber count per channel per day, recorded from the day we started watching that channel. Growth is calculated from two of these real readings, never from an estimated curve.
- Views per post. Telegram shows a view counter under every public post. We read the counters on recent posts and work out the typical figure per channel.
- The newest post. The date of the latest public post tells us whether a channel is still active or has gone quiet.
From those four inputs come the five reports: the overall state of the directory, how fast channels grow, how many views a post gets at each channel size, how many channels stop posting, and how each category compares.
Why medians and not averages
Telegram is extremely uneven. A handful of channels have millions of subscribers, while the typical channel has a few thousand. An average is pulled towards the giants, so one viral channel could make an entire size group look like it is booming. The median is the middle channel instead: half of the channels are above it and half are below. It describes what is normal, which is usually what an owner or an advertiser actually wants to know.
For the same reason, every figure shows how many channels it is based on, written as n. A figure based on fewer than 20 channels is not shown at all, because a handful of channels can tell a misleading story. When a size group or a category has too few measured channels, you will see a dash instead of a number. That dash is honest: the figure appears as soon as there is enough data behind it.
How to read the figures
These insights describe the channels in this directory, not every channel on Telegram. The directory leans towards channels that people search for and submit, which means larger and more active channels are over-represented compared with Telegram as a whole. Read the figures as a benchmark for public channels that are actively trying to be found, which is the group most owners compare themselves with.
The figures are also a snapshot. Subscriber counts move every day, and a channel that posts heavily this week may be quiet next month. The calculation time is shown at the top of the page, and the numbers refresh on their own.
Who these insights are for
Channel owners can see where their channel sits. A channel with 5,000 subscribers is not competing with channels of a million, so the useful comparison is with its own size group: typical views per post, typical growth over a month and how often similar channels post.
Advertisers and people buying promotion can sanity-check a channel before paying for a post. If a channel claims views far above what is normal for its size, or its subscriber count has been flat for months while the price keeps rising, the reports give you a reference point to ask better questions.
Readers looking for something to join can see which categories are busy and how many channels in them are still posting.
What these figures do not include
We do not estimate anything we cannot read. There are no revenue estimates, no guessed audience demographics and no invented growth curves for channels we have not watched. Private channels, which have no public preview page, are not measured. Groups and bots are listed in the directory but are not part of these channel statistics, because their numbers mean different things: a group's members talk, while a channel's subscribers read.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the data come from?
From approved channels listed on TGDirectory, read from each channel's public Telegram web preview. That page shows the subscriber count, the view counter on recent posts and the date of the newest post.
How often are the figures updated?
The page is recalculated from the live directory every few hours. Each channel's own data is refreshed by a background sync that visits every listed channel in rotation.
Why do some figures show a dash?
A figure based on fewer than 20 channels is not shown, because a small sample can be misleading. The dash is replaced by a number as soon as enough channels have been measured.
Are these statistics for all of Telegram?
No. They describe the public channels in this directory. Larger and more active channels are more likely to be listed, so the figures are a benchmark for public channels that want to be found, not a census of Telegram.
How can I get my channel measured?
List it on TGDirectory. Once it is approved and public, its subscribers, views and posting activity are read automatically and included in these figures.
How these figures are measuredSources, medians and sample sizes
Every figure here comes from approved channels listed on TGDirectory and from what Telegram shows on each channel's public web preview: the subscriber count, the view counter on recent posts and the date of the newest post. Growth uses one real subscriber count per channel per day, recorded since we started watching that channel. Nothing is estimated, seeded or filled in.
Medians are used rather than averages, so one huge or viral channel cannot move a figure on its own. Each figure shows how many channels it is based on (n), and a figure based on fewer than 20 channels is not shown at all.
These figures describe channels in this directory, not all of Telegram. Want yours measured? List your channel.