Usenet Statistics (1997/02/28 - 1997/03/31)

Average daily rate: 500.28 Mb, 147886 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	news.radio.cz	226.61	45.30
2	wirehub	180.27	36.03
3	news.iac.net	42.71	8.54
4	iris.global-one.nl	21.41	4.28
5	xs4all	20.74	4.15
6	news.elm.net	4.35	0.87
7	newsgate.unisource.nl	2.65	0.53
8	news.cistron.nl	0.95	0.19
9	news.cybercomm.nl	0.21	0.04
10	ifi.uio.no	0.17	0.03
11	excalibur	0.06	0.01
12	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	0.04	0.01
13	uw.edu.pl	0.04	0.01
14	news.bcca.org	0.04	0.01
15	news.interstroom.nl	0.01	0.00
16	news.ping.at	0.01	0.00
17	wish.net	0.01	0.00
18	news.hvision.nl	0.00	0.00
19	gmv.es	0.00	0.00
20	not-for-mail	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.radio.cz	89539	60.55
2	wirehub	32022	21.65
3	iris.global-one.nl	8922	6.03
4	news.iac.net	6976	4.72
5	xs4all	6730	4.55
6	news.elm.net	1965	1.33
7	newsgate.unisource.nl	1151	0.78
8	news.cistron.nl	397	0.27
9	ifi.uio.no	75	0.05
10	excalibur	24	0.02
11	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	23	0.02
12	uw.edu.pl	19	0.01
13	news.bcca.org	13	0.01
14	news.cybercomm.nl	10	0.01
15	news.ping.at	4	0.00
16	news.interstroom.nl	3	0.00
17	news.hvision.nl	1	0.00
18	wish.net	1	0.00
19	gmv.es	0	0.00
20	not-for-mail	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.mag.playboy	13.99	2.80
2	misc.jobs.offered	7.09	1.42
3	alt.sex.pictures	6.65	1.33
4	alt.sex.pictures.female	4.68	0.93
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	4.54	0.91
6	alt.fan.patricia	4.36	0.87
7	alt.fan.samantha-fox	4.18	0.84
8	alt.pantyhose	4.13	0.82
9	alt.sex.exhibitionism	3.98	0.80
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.76	0.75
11	alt.fan.traci-lords	3.66	0.73
12	ba.jobs.offered	3.56	0.71
13	us.jobs.offered	3.46	0.69
14	alt.amazon-women.admirers	3.42	0.68
15	biz.jobs.offered	3.36	0.67
16	alt.sex.fetish.fa	3.32	0.66
17	alt.test	3.26	0.65
18	alt.fan.julia-hayes	3.24	0.65
19	alt.sex.trans	3.05	0.61
20	alt.warez.ibm-pc.games	3.00	0.60

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	9630	6.51
2	us.jobs.offered	8044	5.44
3	biz.jobs.offered	6711	4.54
4	ba.jobs.offered	5094	3.45
5	comp.jobs.offered	5014	3.39
6	misc.jobs.contract	4215	2.85
7	us.jobs.contract	3218	2.18
8	alt.jobs	2314	1.57
9	us.jobs	1668	1.13
10	prg.jobs	1637	1.11
11	control	1456	0.98
12	misc.jobs	1387	0.94
13	news.newusers.questions	1202	0.81
14	comp.jobs	1192	0.81
15	jobs.offered	991	0.67
16	talk.politics.misc	948	0.64
17	la.jobs	868	0.59
18	alt.sex.pictures	786	0.53
19	alt.sex	776	0.52
20	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	751	0.51

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	270.01	53.97
2	alt.sex	83.62	16.72
3	rec	78.70	15.73
4	alt.binaries	55.73	11.14
5	alt.binaries.pictures	41.24	8.24
6	comp	38.46	7.69
7	alt.fan	34.44	6.88
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	30.35	6.07
9	soc	22.03	4.40
10	misc	20.55	4.11
11	alt.sex.fetish	19.99	4.00
12	alt.mag	16.62	3.32
13	soc.culture	16.34	3.27
14	alt.sex.pictures	14.22	2.84
15	rec.arts	14.08	2.81
16	alt.mag.playboy	13.99	2.80
17	rec.games	13.08	2.61
18	comp.sys	11.10	2.22
19	misc.jobs	10.36	2.07
20	alt.music	8.92	1.78

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	147169	99.51
2	alt.sex	50526	34.17
3	rec	46397	31.37
4	comp	31098	21.03
5	alt.binaries	26812	18.13
6	misc	23985	16.22
7	alt.binaries.pictures	21693	14.67
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	16295	11.02
9	misc.jobs	16160	10.93
10	soc	14242	9.63
11	us	14196	9.60
12	us.jobs	13997	9.47
13	biz	10436	7.06
14	soc.culture	10373	7.01
15	alt.sex.fetish	10048	6.79
16	misc.jobs.offered	9740	6.59
17	us.jobs.offered	8293	5.61
18	comp.sys	8227	5.56
19	rec.arts	7816	5.29
20	alt.fan	7384	4.99

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/28	0.22	0.00			110	0.00
1997/03/01	325.99	2.10			114726	2.51
1997/03/02	251.10	1.62			92366	2.02
1997/03/03	328.98	2.12			128222	2.80
1997/03/04	326.88	2.11			128529	2.81
1997/03/05	345.65	2.23			132065	2.88
1997/03/06	354.61	2.29			135177	2.95
1997/03/07	335.58	2.17			145097	3.17
1997/03/08	300.66	1.94			113224	2.47
1997/03/09	174.52	1.13			57547	1.26
1997/03/10	156.70	1.01			55970	1.22
1997/03/11	734.34	4.74			257700	5.63
1997/03/12	517.97	3.34			162248	3.54
1997/03/13	523.89	3.38			164363	3.59
1997/03/14	559.44	3.61			160187	3.50
1997/03/15	536.55	3.46			154705	3.38
1997/03/16	621.46	4.01			141203	3.08
1997/03/17	626.24	4.04			157506	3.44
1997/03/18	601.93	3.89			175100	3.82
1997/03/19	586.73	3.79			133614	2.92
1997/03/20	778.69	5.03			190780	4.17
1997/03/21	597.86	3.86			164373	3.59
1997/03/22	145.98	0.94			60198	1.31
1997/03/23	1186.98	7.66			233733	5.11
1997/03/24	512.19	3.31			156016	3.41
1997/03/25	542.07	3.50			167405	3.66
1997/03/26	521.98	3.37			187405	4.09
1997/03/27	450.77	2.91			181039	3.95
1997/03/28	466.43	3.01			181703	3.97
1997/03/29	410.84	2.65			133632	2.92
1997/03/30	1049.49	6.78			161573	3.53
1997/03/31	615.19	3.97			150800	3.29

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	678.60	4.38			233979	5.11
01	670.10	4.33			214587	4.69
02	735.38	4.75			223890	4.89
03	690.69	4.46			221286	4.83
04	698.07	4.51			212273	4.64
05	646.01	4.17			208975	4.56
06	681.52	4.40			206550	4.51
07	666.54	4.30			194108	4.24
08	636.07	4.11			172967	3.78
09	627.20	4.05			161003	3.52
10	643.29	4.15			139491	3.05
11	657.45	4.24			132636	2.90
12	614.30	3.97			133478	2.92
13	632.25	4.08			144456	3.16
14	627.90	4.05			158250	3.46
15	665.38	4.30			175754	3.84
16	643.94	4.16			190936	4.17
17	695.27	4.49			204523	4.47
18	648.14	4.18			203655	4.45
19	570.71	3.68			198294	4.33
20	561.70	3.63			200717	4.38
21	556.64	3.59			203731	4.45
22	576.11	3.72			205786	4.49
23	664.68	4.29			236991	5.18

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	3283.55	21.20			686422	14.99
Monday	2239.30	14.46			648514	14.16
Tuesday	2205.23	14.24			728734	15.92
Wednesday	1972.33	12.73			615332	13.44
Thursday	2107.96	13.61			671359	14.66
Friday	1959.54	12.65			651470	14.23
Saturday	1720.03	11.11			576485	12.59