Usenet Statistics (1997/05/31 - 1997/06/30)

Average daily rate: 421.84 Mb, 151911 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	121.50	28.80
2	btnet-feed3	114.90	27.24
3	news.iac.net	75.33	17.86
4	wirehub	43.69	10.36
5	newsgate.unisource.nl	26.23	6.22
6	iris.global-one.nl	11.11	2.63
7	xs4all	10.80	2.56
8	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	8.57	2.03
9	gmv.es	7.14	1.69
10	news.elm.net	2.20	0.52
11	news.cistron.nl	0.12	0.03
12	news.interstroom.nl	0.06	0.02
13	news-xfer.mccc.edu	0.06	0.01
14	ifi.uio.no	0.04	0.01
15	news.cybercomm.nl	0.03	0.01
16	news.structured.net	0.02	0.00
17	news.bcca.org	0.02	0.00
18	excalibur	0.01	0.00
19	uw.edu.pl	0.01	0.00
20	wish.net	0.01	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.radio.cz	41199	27.12
2	btnet-feed3	40679	26.78
3	news.iac.net	23673	15.58
4	wirehub	15683	10.32
5	newsgate.unisource.nl	14348	9.45
6	xs4all	5494	3.62
7	iris.global-one.nl	5452	3.59
8	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	2977	1.96
9	gmv.es	1504	0.99
10	news.elm.net	717	0.47
11	news.cistron.nl	57	0.04
12	news-xfer.mccc.edu	39	0.03
13	news.interstroom.nl	30	0.02
14	ifi.uio.no	13	0.01
15	news.cybercomm.nl	11	0.01
16	news.structured.net	9	0.01
17	excalibur	5	0.00
18	news.bcca.org	5	0.00
19	uw.edu.pl	2	0.00
20	news.hvision.nl	2	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.fan.patricia	10.94	2.59
2	alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits	7.67	1.82
3	misc.jobs.offered	7.54	1.79
4	alt.fan.pam-anderson	4.98	1.18
5	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	3.77	0.89
6	alt.fan.jenny-mccarthy	3.76	0.89
7	biz.jobs.offered	3.31	0.78
8	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.75	0.65
9	us.jobs.offered	2.57	0.61
10	alt.sex.stories	2.54	0.60
11	alt.sex.fetish.fa	2.38	0.57
12	alt.fan.traci-lords	2.31	0.55
13	alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities	2.22	0.53
14	es.alt.binarios.sexo	2.18	0.52
15	alt.sex.trans	2.14	0.51
16	news.lists.filters	2.00	0.47
17	alt.fan.julia-hayes	1.85	0.44
18	alt.binaries.sounds.midi	1.84	0.44
19	alt.sex.fetish.hair	1.80	0.43
20	alt.fan.winona-ryder	1.72	0.41

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	9242	6.08
2	biz.jobs.offered	6868	4.52
3	us.jobs.offered	6386	4.20
4	comp.jobs.offered	3912	2.58
5	misc.jobs.contract	3797	2.50
6	alt.jobs	3724	2.45
7	us.jobs.contract	2998	1.97
8	us.jobs	1973	1.30
9	prg.jobs	1774	1.17
10	misc.jobs	1742	1.15
11	comp.jobs	1193	0.79
12	control	1183	0.78
13	jobs.offered	1088	0.72
14	misc.test	844	0.56
15	alt.evil	774	0.51
16	tx.jobs	770	0.51
17	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	724	0.48
18	alt.games.final-fantasy	689	0.45
19	alt.sex.exhibitionism	678	0.45
20	alt.test	658	0.43

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	214.22	50.78
2	alt.sex	74.74	17.72
3	rec	71.24	16.89
4	alt.fan	50.48	11.97
5	alt.binaries	33.90	8.04
6	comp	31.45	7.46
7	alt.binaries.pictures	23.30	5.52
8	misc	20.15	4.78
9	soc	18.02	4.27
10	alt.sex.fetish	17.77	4.21
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	16.52	3.92
12	soc.culture	13.14	3.12
13	rec.arts	12.84	3.04
14	rec.games	11.94	2.83
15	alt.fan.patricia	10.94	2.59
16	misc.jobs	10.71	2.54
17	comp.sys	9.46	2.24
18	alt.music	9.00	2.13
19	alt.fan.oksana-bayul	7.67	1.82
20	alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits	7.67	1.82

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	124244	81.79
2	alt.sex	44014	28.97
3	rec	42915	28.25
4	comp	26937	17.73
5	misc	23365	15.38
6	misc.jobs	15612	10.28
7	alt.binaries	13257	8.73
8	us	12418	8.17
9	us.jobs	12238	8.06
10	soc	11751	7.74
11	biz	10137	6.67
12	alt.binaries.pictures	10052	6.62
13	misc.jobs.offered	9351	6.16
14	alt.sex.fetish	9200	6.06
15	soc.culture	8535	5.62
16	alt.fan	8424	5.55
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	7306	4.81
18	biz.jobs	7259	4.78
19	comp.sys	7214	4.75
20	rec.arts	7199	4.74

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/05/31	0.08	0.00			57	0.00
1997/06/01	502.02	3.97			142603	3.13
1997/06/02	523.03	4.13			164078	3.60
1997/06/03	460.74	3.64			186433	4.09
1997/06/04	418.80	3.31			164124	3.60
1997/06/05	407.25	3.22			139783	3.07
1997/06/06	254.67	2.01			103332	2.27
1997/06/07	376.09	2.97			138669	3.04
1997/06/08	446.34	3.53			153386	3.37
1997/06/09	372.21	2.94			151038	3.31
1997/06/10	367.32	2.90			145707	3.20
1997/06/11	402.55	3.18			163749	3.59
1997/06/12	474.69	3.75			183634	4.03
1997/06/13	453.14	3.58			162837	3.57
1997/06/14	274.74	2.17			109985	2.41
1997/06/15	307.45	2.43			103828	2.28
1997/06/16	151.54	1.20			62274	1.37
1997/06/17	343.03	2.71			123309	2.71
1997/06/18	505.71	4.00			164516	3.61
1997/06/19	569.98	4.50			182834	4.01
1997/06/20	435.67	3.44			158046	3.47
1997/06/21	543.40	4.29			173506	3.81
1997/06/22	565.06	4.47			162570	3.57
1997/06/23	469.22	3.71			157361	3.45
1997/06/24	407.40	3.22			151324	3.32
1997/06/25	389.02	3.07			145273	3.19
1997/06/26	494.05	3.90			192143	4.22
1997/06/27	411.10	3.25			172372	3.78
1997/06/28	407.96	3.22			160783	3.53
1997/06/29	491.35	3.88			160266	3.52
1997/06/30	429.47	3.39			177515	3.90

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	592.30	4.68			213782	4.69
01	588.63	4.65			217546	4.77
02	409.80	3.24			147589	3.24
03	345.18	2.73			147153	3.23
04	389.01	3.07			153821	3.38
05	410.11	3.24			158581	3.48
06	529.26	4.18			188347	4.13
07	571.38	4.52			201905	4.43
08	382.63	3.02			132134	2.90
09	640.47	5.06			200236	4.39
10	685.07	5.41			186066	4.08
11	619.65	4.90			191152	4.19
12	615.03	4.86			195548	4.29
13	605.61	4.79			194898	4.28
14	559.72	4.42			192333	4.22
15	529.23	4.18			195872	4.30
16	518.17	4.09			196511	4.31
17	501.52	3.96			207597	4.56
18	499.06	3.94			210243	4.61
19	507.63	4.01			205732	4.51
20	528.95	4.18			202669	4.45
21	561.71	4.44			204296	4.48
22	522.90	4.13			204958	4.50
23	542.07	4.28			208366	4.57

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	2312.23	18.27			722653	15.86
Monday	1945.48	15.37			712266	15.63
Tuesday	1578.49	12.47			606773	13.31
Wednesday	1716.08	13.56			637662	13.99
Thursday	1945.97	15.38			698394	15.32
Friday	1554.58	12.28			596587	13.09
Saturday	1602.27	12.66			583000	12.79