# TelegramInformer

> Independent statistics for 14455 public Telegram channels: subscribers, daily growth, post reach,
> engagement rate (ERR), mentions by other channels, similar channels and rankings by category.
> Collected by our own crawler every day; free to browse and cite.

Channel pages: https://telegraminformer.com/channels/{username} (lower-case username, e.g. https://telegraminformer.com/channels/durov).
Russian interface: the same paths under /ru/.

## Markdown versions

Every channel and ranking page has a plain Markdown copy at the same address plus `.md`, with the same numbers,
rankings, daily table, recent posts and FAQ, a data date and a citation line. Prefer these when reading or quoting:

- Channel: https://telegraminformer.com/channels/durov.md
- All channels: https://telegraminformer.com/channels.md (paged: ?page=2; filters: ?language=en, ?sort=growth|growth30|err)
- Category: https://telegraminformer.com/c/news.md
- Country: https://telegraminformer.com/catalog/usa.md, country + category: https://telegraminformer.com/catalog/usa/politics.md
- Catalog of countries: https://telegraminformer.com/catalog.md; all categories: https://telegraminformer.com/categories.md

## Rankings

- [All channels](https://telegraminformer.com/channels.md)
- [All categories](https://telegraminformer.com/categories.md)
- [Catalog by country](https://telegraminformer.com/catalog.md): 7 countries, e.g. https://telegraminformer.com/catalog/usa.md; a channel's country is where its audience is
- [Politics](https://telegraminformer.com/c/politics.md): 2517 channels
- [Religion & Spirituality](https://telegraminformer.com/c/religion-spirituality.md): 1303 channels
- [Cryptocurrencies](https://telegraminformer.com/c/cryptocurrencies.md): 1259 channels
- [News & Media](https://telegraminformer.com/c/news.md): 1044 channels
- [Humor & Entertainment](https://telegraminformer.com/c/entertainment.md): 545 channels
- [Economics & Finance](https://telegraminformer.com/c/economics-politics.md): 531 channels
- [Health](https://telegraminformer.com/c/health.md): 477 channels
- [Betting](https://telegraminformer.com/c/betting.md): 373 channels
- [Music](https://telegraminformer.com/c/music.md): 368 channels
- [Videos & Movies](https://telegraminformer.com/c/videos-movies.md): 362 channels
- [Technology](https://telegraminformer.com/c/technology.md): 343 channels
- [Education](https://telegraminformer.com/c/education.md): 278 channels
- [Healthy Lifestyle](https://telegraminformer.com/c/healthy-lifestyle.md): 264 channels
- [Business & Startups](https://telegraminformer.com/c/business-startups.md): 232 channels
- [Games & Apps](https://telegraminformer.com/c/games-apps.md): 226 channels
- [Art & Design](https://telegraminformer.com/c/art-design.md): 225 channels
- [Animals](https://telegraminformer.com/c/animals.md): 211 channels
- [Facts](https://telegraminformer.com/c/facts.md): 197 channels
- [Sales](https://telegraminformer.com/c/sales.md): 183 channels
- [Motivation & Quotes](https://telegraminformer.com/c/motivation-quotes.md): 157 channels

## About the data

- [Methodology](https://telegraminformer.com/methodology.md): how the data is collected and how every metric is calculated
- [About TelegramInformer](https://telegraminformer.com/about.md): who runs the site, independence, funding
- [Pavel Ufimtsev](https://telegraminformer.com/about/pavel-ufimtsev.md): founder; built the crawler, database and site
- [Editorial policy](https://telegraminformer.com/editorial-policy.md): what is listed, labelled 18+ or hidden; corrections
- [Change log](https://telegraminformer.com/changes.md)

## Research

- [Telegram statistics 2026: users, channels, money and audiences](https://telegraminformer.com/research/telegram-statistics.md): The Telegram numbers that hold up in 2026, each with its source and date: users and growth, 11.3 million channels and 34 billion subscriptions, how Telegram compares with other apps, revenue, ads, Mini Apps, Gifts, fake subscribers, who reads Telegram and what they trust, Russia's block, plus live data from the channels we track.

## Guides

- [How to check a Telegram channel's real statistics (and spot fake subscribers)](https://telegraminformer.com/guides/check-telegram-channel-statistics.md): How to tell whether a Telegram channel has a real audience: what Telegram shows anyone and what only admins see, reach, ERR, growth history, engagement and citations, with benchmarks from thousands of channels and the warning signs of bought subscribers.
- [What is Telegram? How it works, who runs it, and how safe it is](https://telegraminformer.com/guides/what-is-telegram.md): A sourced guide to Telegram in 2026: who makes it and how it earns money, how chats, groups, channels, bots and Mini Apps work, what changed in 2025 and 2026, how private it really is, how it compares with WhatsApp and Signal, and what its biggest channels say about it.