Usenet Statistics (1997/01/02 - 1997/01/31)

Average daily rate: 280.03 Mb, 109155 articles

• Top 20 feeding sites:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Top 20 newsgroups:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Average volume and article count:
  • by day
  • by hour
  • by weekday

Top 20 feeding sites by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	wirehub	130.85	46.73
2	xs4all	55.96	19.98
3	iris.global-one.nl	39.68	14.17
4	btnet-feed2	33.36	11.91
5	news.iac.net	18.94	6.76
6	news.cistron.nl	0.86	0.31
7	gmv.es	0.12	0.04
8	news.ping.at	0.06	0.02
9	news.ow.nl	0.05	0.02
10	uw.edu.pl	0.05	0.02
11	ifi.uio.no	0.04	0.01
12	excalibur	0.03	0.01
13	news.cybercomm.nl	0.02	0.01
14	news.bcca.org	0.02	0.01
15	news.hvision.nl	0.00	0.00
16	not-for-mail	0.00	0.00
17	wish.net	0.00	0.00
18	nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl	0.00	0.00
19	news.interstroom.nl	0.00	0.00
20	axil.hvision.nl	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	wirehub	61022	55.90
2	iris.global-one.nl	17434	15.97
3	btnet-feed2	14177	12.99
4	xs4all	12596	11.54
5	news.iac.net	3357	3.08
6	news.cistron.nl	388	0.36
7	gmv.es	64	0.06
8	news.ping.at	24	0.02
9	uw.edu.pl	22	0.02
10	ifi.uio.no	19	0.02
11	excalibur	16	0.01
12	news.ow.nl	11	0.01
13	news.cybercomm.nl	10	0.01
14	news.bcca.org	7	0.01
15	news.hvision.nl	2	0.00
16	wish.net	0	0.00
17	not-for-mail	0	0.00
18	nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl	0	0.00
19	news.interstroom.nl	0	0.00
20	axil.hvision.nl	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.fan.patricia	9.47	3.38
2	alt.fan.lightbulbs	6.55	2.34
3	alt.fan.jenny-mccarthy	4.01	1.43
4	misc.jobs.offered	3.69	1.32
5	alt.fan.traci-lords	3.29	1.17
6	alt.fan.julia-hayes	2.70	0.96
7	alt.fan.christy-canyon	2.30	0.82
8	news.newusers.questions	2.08	0.74
9	biz.jobs.offered	1.87	0.67
10	comp.mail.maps	1.82	0.65
11	us.jobs.offered	1.77	0.63
12	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.47	0.53
13	alt.sex.exhibitionism	1.33	0.47
14	alt.fan.samantha-fox	1.26	0.45
15	ba.jobs.offered	1.19	0.43
16	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.17	0.42
17	misc.jobs.contract	1.09	0.39
18	comp.jobs.offered	1.05	0.37
19	rec.arts.comics.marketplace	1.03	0.37
20	alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits	0.98	0.35

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	5296	4.85
2	us.jobs.offered	4050	3.71
3	biz.jobs.offered	3495	3.20
4	comp.jobs.offered	2513	2.30
5	misc.jobs.contract	2267	2.08
6	ba.jobs.offered	2257	2.07
7	us.jobs.contract	1866	1.71
8	news.newusers.questions	1217	1.12
9	prg.jobs	1090	1.00
10	comp.jobs	1001	0.92
11	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	690	0.63
12	control	685	0.63
13	alt.jobs	660	0.60
14	talk.politics.misc	616	0.56
15	us.jobs	560	0.51
16	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	555	0.51
17	rec.collecting.sport.football	541	0.50
18	rec.sport.pro-wrestling	513	0.47
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	493	0.45
20	talk.politics.guns	478	0.44

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	100.77	35.99
2	rec	69.37	24.77
3	alt.fan	42.69	15.25
4	comp	34.59	12.35
5	soc	17.57	6.28
6	misc	14.35	5.12
7	alt.sex	13.25	4.73
8	soc.culture	12.45	4.45
9	rec.arts	12.12	4.33
10	rec.games	11.76	4.20
11	comp.sys	10.53	3.76
12	alt.fan.patricia	9.47	3.38
13	alt.music	8.32	2.97
14	rec.music	7.18	2.56
15	alt.fan.lightbulbs	6.55	2.34
16	sci	6.51	2.33
17	comp.os	6.06	2.16
18	rec.sport	5.61	2.00
19	news	5.60	2.00
20	misc.jobs	5.55	1.98

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	60598	55.52
2	rec	41431	37.96
3	comp	26072	23.89
4	misc	14846	13.60
5	soc	11724	10.74
6	alt.sex	9752	8.93
7	misc.jobs	8417	7.71
8	soc.culture	8413	7.71
9	comp.sys	7619	6.98
10	us	7293	6.68
11	us.jobs	7130	6.53
12	rec.arts	6767	6.20
13	alt.fan	6647	6.09
14	biz	5757	5.27
15	rec.games	5722	5.24
16	misc.jobs.offered	5385	4.93
17	alt.music	5324	4.88
18	comp.os	4998	4.58
19	rec.music	4686	4.29
20	sci	4620	4.23

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/02	184.52	2.21			76789	2.36
1997/01/03	283.26	3.39			96406	2.96
1997/01/04	84.25	1.01			35901	1.10
1997/01/05	252.29	3.02			86528	2.66
1997/01/06	328.32	3.93			110434	3.39
1997/01/07	299.24	3.58			113392	3.48
1997/01/08	237.43	2.84			96785	2.97
1997/01/09	317.16	3.80			121328	3.73
1997/01/10	315.45	3.78			128999	3.96
1997/01/11	277.16	3.32			119331	3.67
1997/01/12	233.30	2.79			85584	2.63
1997/01/13	280.58	3.36			110246	3.39
1997/01/14	312.15	3.74			119057	3.66
1997/01/15	341.57	4.09			136494	4.19
1997/01/16	287.55	3.44			105728	3.25
1997/01/17	317.75	3.81			119816	3.68
1997/01/18	319.00	3.82			112161	3.45
1997/01/19	226.18	2.71			83050	2.55
1997/01/20	258.73	3.10			115018	3.53
1997/01/21	294.62	3.53			107111	3.29
1997/01/22	260.81	3.12			102362	3.15
1997/01/23	351.49	4.21			142249	4.37
1997/01/24	306.63	3.67			132701	4.08
1997/01/25	278.81	3.34			108821	3.34
1997/01/26	267.37	3.20			98726	3.03
1997/01/27	262.32	3.14			108060	3.32
1997/01/28	271.72	3.25			112130	3.45
1997/01/29	325.40	3.90			133314	4.10
1997/01/30	272.21	3.26			115536	3.55
1997/01/31	300.60	3.60			119972	3.69

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	381.17	4.57			156901	4.82
01	378.33	4.53			153609	4.72
02	288.42	3.46			110991	3.41
03	300.76	3.60			110501	3.40
04	298.91	3.58			116315	3.57
05	305.53	3.66			113313	3.48
06	293.65	3.52			110606	3.40
07	314.34	3.77			118650	3.65
08	345.80	4.14			126350	3.88
09	349.70	4.19			130605	4.01
10	339.61	4.07			111898	3.44
11	336.66	4.03			121316	3.73
12	344.22	4.12			123784	3.80
13	329.78	3.95			119884	3.68
14	355.14	4.25			129813	3.99
15	362.71	4.34			141534	4.35
16	356.29	4.27			148935	4.58
17	417.64	5.00			169635	5.21
18	348.07	4.17			149473	4.59
19	363.76	4.36			156412	4.81
20	380.16	4.55			158880	4.88
21	366.84	4.39			149831	4.60
22	399.46	4.79			160770	4.94
23	390.93	4.68			164023	5.04

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	979.15	11.73			353888	10.88
Monday	1129.95	13.54			443758	13.64
Tuesday	1177.73	14.11			451690	13.88
Wednesday	1165.21	13.96			468955	14.41
Thursday	1412.92	16.93			561630	17.26
Friday	1523.68	18.25			597894	18.37
Saturday	959.22	11.49			376214	11.56