Usenet Statistics (1997/01/31 - 1997/02/28)

Average daily rate: 304.31 Mb, 118762 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	97.69	32.10
2	btnet-feed2	88.56	29.10
3	xs4all	38.73	12.73
4	news.iac.net	26.40	8.68
5	news.radio.cz	24.75	8.13
6	iris.global-one.nl	15.40	5.06
7	newsgate.unisource.nl	6.29	2.07
8	news.elm.net	4.79	1.57
9	cheyenne.iac.net	0.65	0.21
10	news.cistron.nl	0.55	0.18
11	ifi.uio.no	0.18	0.06
12	gmv.es	0.14	0.05
13	uw.edu.pl	0.05	0.02
14	news.bcca.org	0.04	0.01
15	excalibur	0.03	0.01
16	news.cybercomm.nl	0.02	0.01
17	news.hvision.nl	0.01	0.00
18	news.ping.at	0.01	0.00
19	news.muc.de	0.00	0.00
20	nic.wi.leidenuniv.nl	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	wirehub	43700	36.80
2	btnet-feed2	35562	29.94
3	xs4all	13017	10.96
4	news.radio.cz	11523	9.70
5	iris.global-one.nl	6267	5.28
6	newsgate.unisource.nl	3099	2.61
7	news.iac.net	2855	2.40
8	news.elm.net	2132	1.80
9	news.cistron.nl	281	0.24
10	ifi.uio.no	86	0.07
11	gmv.es	78	0.07
12	cheyenne.iac.net	74	0.06
13	uw.edu.pl	24	0.02
14	news.bcca.org	17	0.01
15	excalibur	14	0.01
16	news.cybercomm.nl	9	0.01
17	news.hvision.nl	7	0.01
18	news.ping.at	6	0.01
19	news.muc.de	2	0.00
20	wish.net	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.fan.jenny-mccarthy	5.15	1.69
2	alt.fan.traci-lords	4.33	1.42
3	misc.jobs.offered	4.09	1.34
4	alt.fan.patricia	3.85	1.27
5	alt.fan.samantha-fox	2.57	0.84
6	news.newusers.questions	2.38	0.78
7	us.jobs.offered	2.29	0.75
8	biz.jobs.offered	2.06	0.68
9	alt.fan.pam-anderson	1.86	0.61
10	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.80	0.59
11	alt.fan.julia-hayes	1.64	0.54
12	alt.fan.christy-canyon	1.62	0.53
13	alt.sex.exhibitionism	1.56	0.51
14	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.43	0.47
15	news.lists.filters	1.43	0.47
16	comp.jobs.offered	1.33	0.44
17	ba.jobs.offered	1.32	0.43
18	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.28	0.42
19	misc.jobs.contract	1.27	0.42
20	rec.arts.comics.marketplace	1.26	0.42

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	6584	5.54
2	us.jobs.offered	5452	4.59
3	biz.jobs.offered	4417	3.72
4	comp.jobs.offered	3449	2.90
5	misc.jobs.contract	2815	2.37
6	ba.jobs.offered	2636	2.22
7	us.jobs.contract	2301	1.94
8	prg.jobs	1385	1.17
9	news.newusers.questions	1240	1.04
10	comp.jobs	1111	0.94
11	alt.jobs	996	0.84
12	control	840	0.71
13	us.jobs	798	0.67
14	talk.politics.misc	734	0.62
15	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	680	0.57
16	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	643	0.54
17	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	639	0.54
18	tx.jobs	626	0.53
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	604	0.51
20	misc.jobs	592	0.50

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	108.86	35.77
2	rec	72.39	23.79
3	comp	37.97	12.48
4	alt.fan	34.54	11.35
5	soc	18.81	6.18
6	alt.sex	18.21	5.98
7	misc	15.60	5.13
8	rec.arts	14.08	4.63
9	soc.culture	13.77	4.52
10	alt.binaries	12.91	4.24
11	rec.games	11.92	3.92
12	comp.sys	10.83	3.56
13	alt.binaries.pictures	8.14	2.68
14	alt.music	7.67	2.52
15	rec.music	7.55	2.48
16	news	7.46	2.45
17	sci	7.39	2.43
18	comp.os	6.60	2.17
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	6.37	2.09
20	misc.jobs	6.27	2.06

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	74281	62.55
2	rec	43697	36.79
3	comp	29866	25.15
4	misc	17882	15.06
5	alt.sex	14572	12.27
6	soc	13095	11.03
7	misc.jobs	10704	9.01
8	soc.culture	9688	8.16
9	us	9494	7.99
10	us.jobs	9366	7.89
11	comp.sys	8273	6.97
12	rec.arts	7871	6.63
13	biz	7418	6.25
14	misc.jobs.offered	6699	5.64
15	alt.fan	6663	5.61
16	rec.games	5978	5.03
17	alt.binaries	5917	4.98
18	alt.music	5743	4.84
19	comp.os	5572	4.69
20	us.jobs.offered	5551	4.67

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/31	0.19	0.00			112	0.00
1997/02/01	335.64	3.94			116778	3.51
1997/02/02	307.39	3.61			106954	3.22
1997/02/03	272.32	3.20			119215	3.59
1997/02/04	285.17	3.35			110145	3.31
1997/02/05	313.46	3.68			131034	3.94
1997/02/06	281.17	3.30			114106	3.43
1997/02/07	298.77	3.51			120001	3.61
1997/02/08	323.08	3.79			119209	3.58
1997/02/09	209.59	2.46			83091	2.50
1997/02/10	305.92	3.59			131027	3.94
1997/02/11	339.21	3.98			130888	3.94
1997/02/12	346.93	4.07			140320	4.22
1997/02/13	388.09	4.55			148150	4.46
1997/02/14	365.51	4.29			135714	4.08
1997/02/15	290.24	3.41			109467	3.29
1997/02/16	237.82	2.79			87193	2.62
1997/02/17	317.54	3.73			121471	3.65
1997/02/18	323.59	3.80			139486	4.19
1997/02/19	351.69	4.13			138611	4.17
1997/02/20	298.97	3.51			143288	4.31
1997/02/21	351.81	4.13			132295	3.98
1997/02/22	323.36	3.80			119359	3.59
1997/02/23	310.41	3.64			97534	2.93
1997/02/24	311.28	3.65			123580	3.72
1997/02/25	357.37	4.19			137668	4.14
1997/02/26	355.81	4.18			142339	4.28
1997/02/27	0.37	0.00			141	0.00
1997/02/28	317.96	3.73			126185	3.79

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	445.63	5.23			173170	5.21
01	410.32	4.82			164427	4.94
02	373.48	4.38			157479	4.74
03	355.96	4.18			144426	4.34
04	326.26	3.83			135609	4.08
05	319.77	3.75			127134	3.82
06	308.70	3.62			122653	3.69
07	324.19	3.80			120577	3.63
08	307.04	3.60			105968	3.19
09	265.55	3.12			95573	2.87
10	259.96	3.05			88705	2.67
11	246.57	2.89			85395	2.57
12	242.78	2.85			83647	2.52
13	282.29	3.31			103875	3.12
14	314.72	3.69			126546	3.81
15	385.91	4.53			150474	4.53
16	408.26	4.79			167431	5.03
17	406.44	4.77			165730	4.98
18	417.81	4.90			168333	5.06
19	434.78	5.10			164891	4.96
20	423.67	4.97			170233	5.12
21	394.81	4.63			163029	4.90
22	426.41	5.00			167087	5.02
23	439.36	5.16			172969	5.20

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	1065.22	12.50			374772	11.27
Monday	1207.06	14.17			495293	14.89
Tuesday	1305.35	15.32			518187	15.58
Wednesday	1367.89	16.05			552304	16.61
Thursday	968.59	11.37			405685	12.20
Friday	1334.23	15.66			514307	15.47
Saturday	1272.32	14.93			464813	13.98