Usenet Statistics (1997/06/30 - 1997/07/31)

Average daily rate: 396.97 Mb, 143442 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.iac.net	91.39	23.02
2	btnet-feed3	73.81	18.59
3	news.iaehv.nl	59.41	14.96
4	news.radio.cz	49.01	12.35
5	wirehub	32.98	8.31
6	newsgate.unisource.nl	25.77	6.49
7	xs4all	18.15	4.57
8	iris.global-one.nl	14.93	3.76
9	gmv.es	9.84	2.48
10	news-feed1.eu.concert.net	7.61	1.92
11	news.wisper.net	7.03	1.77
12	news.elm.net	5.22	1.32
13	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	0.86	0.22
14	news.interstroom.nl	0.28	0.07
15	ifi.uio.no	0.24	0.06
16	news.cistron.nl	0.18	0.04
17	news.structured.net	0.07	0.02
18	news-xfer.mccc.edu	0.07	0.02
19	news.bcca.org	0.03	0.01
20	news.hvision.nl	0.02	0.01

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.iac.net	30421	21.21
2	news.iaehv.nl	29214	20.37
3	btnet-feed3	23609	16.46
4	news.radio.cz	14838	10.34
5	wirehub	12253	8.54
6	newsgate.unisource.nl	11041	7.70
7	xs4all	7424	5.18
8	iris.global-one.nl	5496	3.83
9	news-feed1.eu.concert.net	2569	1.79
10	news.wisper.net	2148	1.50
11	news.elm.net	1910	1.33
12	gmv.es	1841	1.28
13	newsfeed.austria.eu.net	259	0.18
14	ifi.uio.no	131	0.09
15	news.interstroom.nl	81	0.06
16	news.cistron.nl	72	0.05
17	news-xfer.mccc.edu	43	0.03
18	news.structured.net	39	0.03
19	news.bcca.org	10	0.01
20	uw.edu.pl	8	0.01

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	news.lists.filters	9.70	2.44
2	alt.nocem.misc	8.80	2.22
3	misc.jobs.offered	7.08	1.78
4	alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits	6.56	1.65
5	alt.sex.fetish.fa	5.61	1.41
6	alt.fan.patricia	4.66	1.18
7	es.alt.binarios.sexo	4.10	1.03
8	alt.sex.exhibitionism	3.88	0.98
9	alt.fan.julia-hayes	2.46	0.62
10	alt.sex.stories	2.19	0.55
11	biz.jobs.offered	2.13	0.54
12	alt.fan.samantha-fox	2.06	0.52
13	us.jobs.offered	1.99	0.50
14	alt.sex.fetish.hair	1.95	0.49
15	alt.sex.trans	1.92	0.48
16	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.87	0.47
17	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.69	0.43
18	alt.sex.fetish.wrestling	1.67	0.42
19	alt.fan.traci-lords	1.65	0.42
20	alt.binaries.sounds.midi	1.58	0.40

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	7934	5.53
2	us.jobs.offered	5065	3.53
3	biz.jobs.offered	4942	3.45
4	alt.sex	3257	2.27
5	misc.jobs.contract	3186	2.22
6	alt.jobs	3134	2.18
7	news.groups	3075	2.14
8	rec.games.mecha	3050	2.13
9	alt.gothic	3035	2.12
10	alt.slack	3015	2.10
11	alt.binaries.slack	2979	2.08
12	comp.jobs.offered	2976	2.08
13	alt.2600	2818	1.97
14	alt.drugs	2583	1.80
15	misc.test	2406	1.68
16	us.jobs.contract	2399	1.67
17	soc.penpals	2371	1.65
18	soc.culture.jewish	2364	1.65
19	news.admin.net-abuse.usenet	2341	1.63
20	alt.test	2324	1.62

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	192.75	48.56
2	alt.sex	79.92	20.13
3	rec	69.21	17.43
4	comp	32.58	8.21
5	alt.fan	31.95	8.05
6	alt.binaries	29.68	7.48
7	alt.sex.fetish	22.41	5.65
8	alt.binaries.pictures	22.33	5.63
9	misc	19.04	4.80
10	soc	18.61	4.69
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	16.85	4.25
12	news	14.45	3.64
13	soc.culture	13.61	3.43
14	rec.arts	12.11	3.05
15	rec.games	11.62	2.93
16	comp.sys	9.98	2.51
17	misc.jobs	9.82	2.47
18	news.lists	9.73	2.45
19	news.lists.filters	9.70	2.44
20	alt.nocem	8.80	2.22

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	161914	112.88
2	alt.sex	59403	41.41
3	rec	48697	33.95
4	comp	26939	18.78
5	misc	24063	16.78
6	alt.binaries	22617	15.77
7	soc	19495	13.59
8	alt.binaries.pictures	15128	10.55
9	misc.jobs	13845	9.65
10	soc.culture	13357	9.31
11	alt.sex.fetish	12062	8.41
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	12046	8.40
13	news	10135	7.07
14	us	9983	6.96
15	us.jobs	9872	6.88
16	alt.fan	9222	6.43
17	sci	8739	6.09
18	rec.games	8313	5.80
19	misc.jobs.offered	8061	5.62
20	rec.music	7587	5.29

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/06/30	0.14	0.00			90	0.00
1997/07/01	471.47	3.83			176032	3.96
1997/07/02	424.38	3.45			153728	3.46
1997/07/03	413.91	3.36			145605	3.27
1997/07/04	456.13	3.71			151933	3.42
1997/07/05	499.29	4.06			147605	3.32
1997/07/06	465.73	3.78			148246	3.33
1997/07/07	407.39	3.31			146476	3.29
1997/07/08	347.33	2.82			134023	3.01
1997/07/09	257.22	2.09			98668	2.22
1997/07/10	300.60	2.44			112266	2.52
1997/07/11	304.09	2.47			117922	2.65
1997/07/12	327.75	2.66			113235	2.55
1997/07/13	353.77	2.87			123359	2.77
1997/07/14	283.49	2.30			105615	2.38
1997/07/15	294.32	2.39			117274	2.64
1997/07/16	305.48	2.48			123003	2.77
1997/07/17	260.85	2.12			106372	2.39
1997/07/18	172.31	1.40			74858	1.68
1997/07/19	313.82	2.55			119071	2.68
1997/07/20	347.79	2.83			118792	2.67
1997/07/21	245.47	1.99			88848	2.00
1997/07/22	497.39	4.04			178340	4.01
1997/07/23	611.33	4.97			227969	5.13
1997/07/24	546.57	4.44			199625	4.49
1997/07/25	602.64	4.90			209302	4.71
1997/07/26	488.05	3.97			162963	3.66
1997/07/27	619.06	5.03			202231	4.55
1997/07/28	514.85	4.18			189497	4.26
1997/07/29	396.05	3.22			164796	3.71
1997/07/30	446.92	3.63			167198	3.76
1997/07/31	330.61	2.69			121773	2.74

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	528.11	4.29			203103	4.57
01	535.14	4.35			208462	4.69
02	414.60	3.37			149763	3.37
03	375.61	3.05			147578	3.32
04	407.22	3.31			155308	3.49
05	394.04	3.20			153589	3.45
06	480.59	3.91			177471	3.99
07	554.96	4.51			200386	4.51
08	139.63	1.13			48215	1.08
09	365.19	2.97			127918	2.88
10	607.16	4.93			201159	4.52
11	562.83	4.57			193891	4.36
12	603.12	4.90			191803	4.31
13	590.85	4.80			184529	4.15
14	602.91	4.90			198409	4.46
15	570.43	4.64			191477	4.31
16	559.42	4.55			206508	4.64
17	607.48	4.94			225604	5.07
18	583.07	4.74			218416	4.91
19	601.53	4.89			214095	4.81
20	576.10	4.68			213391	4.80
21	568.08	4.62			211235	4.75
22	537.54	4.37			213612	4.80
23	540.55	4.39			210793	4.74

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	1786.34	14.52			592628	13.33
Monday	1451.35	11.79			530526	11.93
Tuesday	2006.57	16.31			770465	17.33
Wednesday	2045.33	16.62			770566	17.33
Thursday	1852.53	15.05			685641	15.42
Friday	1535.16	12.47			554015	12.46
Saturday	1628.91	13.24			542874	12.21