Usenet Statistics (1997/03/31 - 1997/04/30)

Average daily rate: 550.47 Mb, 154712 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	228.63	41.53
2	wirehub	172.13	31.27
3	news.iac.net	87.17	15.84
4	newsgate.unisource.nl	21.66	3.94
5	iris.global-one.nl	15.49	2.81
6	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	14.19	2.58
7	xs4all	9.73	1.77
8	news.elm.net	0.83	0.15
9	news.cistron.nl	0.25	0.05
10	gmv.es	0.12	0.02
11	news.cybercomm.nl	0.11	0.02
12	news.bcca.org	0.06	0.01
13	excalibur	0.05	0.01
14	news.hvision.nl	0.03	0.01
15	uw.edu.pl	0.01	0.00
16	ifi.uio.no	0.00	0.00
17	wish.net	0.00	0.00
18	news.interstroom.nl	0.00	0.00
19	news.structured.net	0.00	0.00
20	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.radio.cz	81393	52.61
2	wirehub	36205	23.40
3	news.iac.net	11412	7.38
4	newsgate.unisource.nl	10784	6.97
5	iris.global-one.nl	5033	3.25
6	xs4all	4948	3.20
7	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	4407	2.85
8	news.elm.net	336	0.22
9	news.cistron.nl	72	0.05
10	gmv.es	53	0.03
11	excalibur	20	0.01
12	news.bcca.org	19	0.01
13	news.cybercomm.nl	10	0.01
14	uw.edu.pl	6	0.00
15	news.hvision.nl	3	0.00
16	ifi.uio.no	2	0.00
17	wish.net	1	0.00
18	news.interstroom.nl	0	0.00
19	news.structured.net	0	0.00
20	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.mag.playboy	15.57	2.83
2	alt.fan.patricia	14.79	2.69
3	misc.jobs.offered	6.98	1.27
4	alt.sex.exhibitionism	6.42	1.17
5	alt.sex.fetish.fa	5.84	1.06
6	alt.sex.trans	5.00	0.91
7	alt.sex.pictures.female	4.85	0.88
8	alt.sex.sounds	4.76	0.87
9	alt.fan.jenny-mccarthy	4.66	0.85
10	alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits	4.48	0.81
11	alt.sex.fetish.wrestling	3.90	0.71
12	alt.amazon-women.admirers	3.85	0.70
13	alt.pantyhose	3.79	0.69
14	alt.sex.pictures	3.73	0.68
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	3.71	0.67
16	alt.fan.traci-lords	3.47	0.63
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.44	0.62
18	alt.sex.fetish.waifs	3.18	0.58
19	alt.test	3.15	0.57
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	3.15	0.57

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	8984	5.81
2	us.jobs.offered	6607	4.27
3	biz.jobs.offered	5948	3.84
4	misc.jobs.contract	3772	2.44
5	comp.jobs.offered	3660	2.37
6	ba.jobs.offered	2938	1.90
7	us.jobs.contract	2843	1.84
8	control	2532	1.64
9	alt.jobs	2397	1.55
10	us.jobs	2005	1.30
11	prg.jobs	1935	1.25
12	misc.jobs	1726	1.12
13	comp.jobs	1400	0.91
14	jobs.offered	1124	0.73
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1047	0.68
16	news.newusers.questions	993	0.64
17	alt.sex.pictures.female	987	0.64
18	alt.sex	961	0.62
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	909	0.59
20	alt.sex.pictures	898	0.58

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	313.22	56.90
2	alt.sex	105.35	19.14
3	rec	83.29	15.13
4	alt.binaries	64.60	11.74
5	alt.binaries.pictures	49.68	9.03
6	alt.fan	48.09	8.74
7	comp	37.50	6.81
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	37.30	6.78
9	alt.sex.fetish	29.94	5.44
10	soc	21.20	3.85
11	misc	19.52	3.55
12	rec.games	17.05	3.10
13	alt.mag	16.98	3.08
14	rec.arts	15.98	2.90
15	alt.mag.playboy	15.57	2.83
16	soc.culture	15.40	2.80
17	alt.fan.patricia	14.79	2.69
18	comp.sys	12.58	2.28
19	alt.sex.pictures	11.50	2.09
20	misc.jobs	10.14	1.84

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	155866	100.75
2	alt.sex	47690	30.83
3	rec	44386	28.69
4	alt.binaries	36031	23.29
5	alt.binaries.pictures	29795	19.26
6	comp	28365	18.33
7	misc	22709	14.68
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	21984	14.21
9	misc.jobs	15333	9.91
10	soc	13398	8.66
11	us	12787	8.27
12	us.jobs	12607	8.15
13	biz	10058	6.50
14	soc.culture	9738	6.29
15	misc.jobs.offered	9095	5.88
16	alt.sex.fetish	9064	5.86
17	comp.sys	7823	5.06
18	rec.arts	7423	4.80
19	alt.fan	6834	4.42
20	us.jobs.offered	6830	4.42

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/31	0.47	0.00			191	0.00
1997/04/01	829.19	5.02			167077	3.60
1997/04/02	494.45	2.99			171655	3.70
1997/04/03	585.43	3.55			157060	3.38
1997/04/04	505.96	3.06			162692	3.51
1997/04/05	742.32	4.50			143937	3.10
1997/04/06	764.77	4.63			124342	2.68
1997/04/07	626.29	3.79			148534	3.20
1997/04/08	444.46	2.69			161289	3.48
1997/04/09	466.63	2.83			159717	3.44
1997/04/10	464.56	2.81			153959	3.32
1997/04/11	512.85	3.11			161260	3.47
1997/04/12	630.44	3.82			150796	3.25
1997/04/13	534.08	3.23			143154	3.08
1997/04/14	471.10	2.85			159371	3.43
1997/04/15	538.79	3.26			163717	3.53
1997/04/16	479.02	2.90			158466	3.41
1997/04/17	511.51	3.10			164958	3.55
1997/04/18	456.43	2.76			162842	3.51
1997/04/19	479.47	2.90			148655	3.20
1997/04/20	665.26	4.03			140266	3.02
1997/04/21	471.57	2.86			142274	3.07
1997/04/22	540.19	3.27			174920	3.77
1997/04/23	462.02	2.80			160039	3.45
1997/04/24	463.21	2.80			166274	3.58
1997/04/25	475.50	2.88			147366	3.18
1997/04/26	660.70	4.00			146802	3.16
1997/04/27	637.31	3.86			131486	2.83
1997/04/28	538.18	3.26			155048	3.34
1997/04/29	553.74	3.35			148598	3.20
1997/04/30	508.15	3.08			164626	3.55

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	453.78	2.75			153063	3.30
01	594.94	3.60			191037	4.12
02	669.85	4.06			207842	4.48
03	701.91	4.25			215448	4.64
04	732.97	4.44			217576	4.69
05	734.86	4.45			219509	4.73
06	632.43	3.83			193383	4.17
07	724.47	4.39			182173	3.92
08	691.72	4.19			166703	3.59
09	687.33	4.16			156641	3.37
10	682.03	4.13			151686	3.27
11	748.14	4.53			153632	3.31
12	607.95	3.68			140139	3.02
13	625.25	3.79			148659	3.20
14	662.74	4.01			165383	3.56
15	719.69	4.36			180068	3.88
16	678.60	4.11			200290	4.32
17	724.85	4.39			210652	4.54
18	663.37	4.02			197718	4.26
19	749.26	4.54			227201	4.90
20	811.16	4.91			245079	5.28
21	761.06	4.61			243711	5.25
22	717.27	4.34			237221	5.11
23	738.44	4.47			236557	5.10

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	2601.41	15.75			539248	11.62
Monday	2107.62	12.76			605418	13.04
Tuesday	2906.37	17.60			815601	17.57
Wednesday	2410.27	14.60			814503	17.55
Thursday	2024.72	12.26			642251	13.84
Friday	1950.74	11.81			634160	13.66
Saturday	2512.93	15.22			590190	12.72