Methodology
Every number on our rankings and channel pages comes from the public Telegram surface — observed, snapshotted and dated, never bought or guessed. Here is exactly what each metric is, how it is computed, and what it is not.
We currently track 5.5M Telegram channels and snapshot the largest ones daily.
We observe what Telegram itself publishes about a public channel — subscriber count, recent post views, language and category — and store a dated snapshot. Top channels refresh nightly; the long tail rotates more slowly. We have no admin access to any channel and no privileged analytics: everything here can be reproduced from the public surface. Numbers are observation-as-of timestamps, not a live counter.
The four metrics behind every ranking — and the honest caveat on each.
The ads running inside a channel
Uniquely, we pair channel analytics with the advertisers and creatives observed inside a channel, sourced from our open ad archive. No other Telegram-stats tool shows who advertises where.
Engagement & growth, open and indexable
Engagement-rate and 30-day growth leaderboards — by metric and by language — are free and crawlable, not locked behind a paid tier or hidden from search.
Open data, public API, CC-BY
Every ranking is available as JSON at /api/v1/channels under a CC-BY-4.0 licence. Quote it, build on it, audit it.
Honest audience-quality signals
Where others print a made-up “% bots”, we show a traffic-light estimate with the reasons behind it — and label it an estimate, because we have no admin-level audience data.
See it in the data