Usenet Statistics (1997/04/30 - 1997/05/31)

Average daily rate: 494.17 Mb, 147200 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	149.19	30.19
2	news.iac.net	111.11	22.48
3	wirehub	86.15	17.43
4	btnet-feed3	85.52	17.31
5	newsgate.unisource.nl	16.54	3.35
6	iris.global-one.nl	11.46	2.32
7	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	11.31	2.29
8	xs4all	10.48	2.12
9	gmv.es	10.27	2.08
10	news.elm.net	1.80	0.36
11	news.cistron.nl	0.13	0.03
12	news.interstroom.nl	0.04	0.01
13	news.bcca.org	0.03	0.01
14	news.structured.net	0.03	0.01
15	ifi.uio.no	0.03	0.01
16	news.cybercomm.nl	0.02	0.00
17	wish.net	0.02	0.00
18	news.hvision.nl	0.01	0.00
19	uw.edu.pl	0.01	0.00
20	excalibur	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.radio.cz	54518	37.04
2	btnet-feed3	29684	20.17
3	wirehub	20042	13.62
4	news.iac.net	18535	12.59
5	newsgate.unisource.nl	8640	5.87
6	iris.global-one.nl	5148	3.50
7	xs4all	4883	3.32
8	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	3750	2.55
9	gmv.es	1304	0.89
10	news.elm.net	558	0.38
11	news.cistron.nl	65	0.04
12	news.structured.net	16	0.01
13	news.interstroom.nl	12	0.01
14	news.cybercomm.nl	11	0.01
15	news.bcca.org	11	0.01
16	ifi.uio.no	4	0.00
17	uw.edu.pl	4	0.00
18	news.hvision.nl	3	0.00
19	news-xfer.mccc.edu	0	0.00
20	excalibur	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	8.98	1.82
2	alt.fan.julia-hayes	8.65	1.75
3	alt.mag.playboy	8.63	1.75
4	alt.sex.fetish.fa	6.60	1.34
5	alt.fan.patricia	5.76	1.17
6	alt.sex.exhibitionism	5.26	1.06
7	alt.binaries.sounds.midi	4.18	0.85
8	alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits	4.18	0.85
9	alt.fan.traci-lords	3.86	0.78
10	alt.sex.pictures.female	3.84	0.78
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	3.80	0.77
12	alt.fan.jenny-mccarthy	3.70	0.75
13	es.alt.binarios.sexo	3.67	0.74
14	biz.jobs.offered	3.58	0.72
15	alt.sex.pictures	3.52	0.71
16	alt.sex.trans	3.49	0.71
17	alt.sex.fetish.wrestling	3.12	0.63
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.10	0.63
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.97	0.60
20	alt.sex.stories	2.70	0.55

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	9021	6.13
2	biz.jobs.offered	5896	4.01
3	us.jobs.offered	5741	3.90
4	misc.jobs.contract	3346	2.27
5	comp.jobs.offered	3322	2.26
6	us.jobs.contract	2483	1.69
7	alt.jobs	2172	1.48
8	us.jobs	1993	1.35
9	misc.jobs	1833	1.25
10	prg.jobs	1689	1.15
11	control	1479	1.00
12	jobs.offered	1217	0.83
13	comp.jobs	1171	0.80
14	news.newusers.questions	883	0.60
15	alt.sex.exhibitionism	835	0.57
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	804	0.55
17	alt.sex.pictures.female	779	0.53
18	alt.sex.pictures	764	0.52
19	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	733	0.50
20	alt.sex	728	0.50

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	280.16	56.69
2	alt.sex	101.65	20.57
3	rec	68.30	13.82
4	alt.binaries	59.61	12.06
5	alt.fan	46.86	9.48
6	alt.binaries.pictures	46.03	9.32
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	34.26	6.93
8	comp	31.93	6.46
9	alt.sex.fetish	27.97	5.66
10	misc	20.90	4.23
11	soc	19.31	3.91
12	soc.culture	13.93	2.82
13	misc.jobs	12.35	2.50
14	rec.arts	12.05	2.44
15	rec.games	11.79	2.39
16	comp.sys	9.71	1.96
17	alt.mag	9.61	1.94
18	alt.sex.pictures	9.56	1.93
19	misc.jobs.offered	9.04	1.83
20	alt.fan.julia-hayes	8.65	1.75

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	133815	90.91
2	alt.sex	45670	31.03
3	rec	39697	26.97
4	comp	26109	17.74
5	alt.binaries	24177	16.43
6	misc	21785	14.80
7	alt.binaries.pictures	19379	13.17
8	misc.jobs	14991	10.18
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	14234	9.67
10	soc	12874	8.75
11	us	11372	7.73
12	us.jobs	11148	7.57
13	biz	9332	6.34
14	soc.culture	9161	6.22
15	misc.jobs.offered	9127	6.20
16	alt.sex.fetish	8792	5.97
17	comp.sys	7148	4.86
18	alt.fan	6976	4.74
19	rec.arts	6573	4.47
20	biz.jobs	6339	4.31

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/04/30	0.25	0.00			103	0.00
1997/05/01	595.04	3.88			162196	3.55
1997/05/02	479.10	3.13			140139	3.07
1997/05/03	549.27	3.59			152524	3.34
1997/05/04	448.79	2.93			110197	2.41
1997/05/05	384.09	2.51			143926	3.15
1997/05/06	613.74	4.01			169272	3.71
1997/05/07	577.78	3.77			154710	3.39
1997/05/08	481.90	3.15			128509	2.82
1997/05/09	669.82	4.37			169292	3.71
1997/05/10	599.27	3.91			141119	3.09
1997/05/11	725.55	4.74			142441	3.12
1997/05/12	519.36	3.39			146376	3.21
1997/05/13	433.77	2.83			136661	2.99
1997/05/14	498.71	3.26			154046	3.38
1997/05/15	608.92	3.97			167987	3.68
1997/05/16	466.07	3.04			145279	3.18
1997/05/17	587.09	3.83			145502	3.19
1997/05/18	456.11	2.98			128694	2.82
1997/05/19	432.17	2.82			156037	3.42
1997/05/20	476.41	3.11			170191	3.73
1997/05/21	533.29	3.48			172472	3.78
1997/05/22	460.37	3.01			140915	3.09
1997/05/23	357.06	2.33			131491	2.88
1997/05/24	363.28	2.37			129882	2.85
1997/05/25	407.69	2.66			122438	2.68
1997/05/26	440.84	2.88			131436	2.88
1997/05/27	417.11	2.72			144910	3.18
1997/05/28	407.60	2.66			160415	3.52
1997/05/29	490.12	3.20			181060	3.97
1997/05/30	425.67	2.78			146540	3.21
1997/05/31	412.85	2.70			136441	2.99

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	611.63	3.99			197414	4.33
01	614.30	4.01			197468	4.33
02	477.94	3.12			146558	3.21
03	463.85	3.03			165248	3.62
04	516.69	3.37			173166	3.79
05	611.60	3.99			187160	4.10
06	731.53	4.78			206971	4.54
07	748.38	4.89			200206	4.39
08	706.18	4.61			184901	4.05
09	769.02	5.02			190185	4.17
10	703.54	4.59			173822	3.81
11	744.12	4.86			174342	3.82
12	645.14	4.21			167843	3.68
13	668.18	4.36			170455	3.74
14	689.37	4.50			185556	4.07
15	660.96	4.31			193381	4.24
16	633.93	4.14			202100	4.43
17	650.69	4.25			211798	4.64
18	622.08	4.06			202211	4.43
19	627.50	4.10			211363	4.63
20	604.90	3.95			202778	4.44
21	616.31	4.02			205852	4.51
22	588.52	3.84			205733	4.51
23	612.74	4.00			206690	4.53

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	2038.14	13.30			503770	11.04
Monday	1776.46	11.60			577775	12.66
Tuesday	1941.03	12.67			621034	13.61
Wednesday	2017.64	13.17			641746	14.06
Thursday	2636.35	17.21			780667	17.11
Friday	2397.72	15.65			732741	16.06
Saturday	2511.76	16.40			705468	15.46