Usenet Statistics (1996/12/17 - 1996/12/20)

Average daily rate: 236.43 Mb, 66736 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.webspan.net	113.10	47.84
2	uunet	81.87	34.63
3	news-out.internetmci.com	41.45	17.53
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.01
5	acme	0.00	0.00
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	38270	57.35
2	news.webspan.net	26097	39.11
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2361	3.54
4	newsmaster	6	0.01
5	acme	0	0.00
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	7.83	3.31
2	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.11	3.01
3	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	5.14	2.17
4	alt.games	2.74	1.16
5	alt.sex.pictures	2.37	1.00
6	alt.mag.playboy	2.33	0.99
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.27	0.96
8	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	1.99	0.84
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1.93	0.82
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	1.93	0.82
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob	1.88	0.79
12	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	1.76	0.74
13	alt.sex.pictures.female	1.61	0.68
14	ba.jobs.offered	1.56	0.66
15	alt.fan.patricia	1.55	0.65
16	alt.binaries.misc	1.53	0.65
17	misc.jobs.offered	1.49	0.63
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	1.41	0.60
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	1.39	0.59
20	alt.2600.programz	1.37	0.58

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	2184	3.27
2	us.jobs.offered	1798	2.70
3	ba.jobs.offered	1761	2.64
4	biz.jobs.offered	1475	2.21
5	comp.jobs.offered	1087	1.63
6	misc.jobs.contract	842	1.26
7	us.jobs.contract	597	0.90
8	alt.jobs	578	0.87
9	prg.jobs	559	0.84
10	comp.jobs	466	0.70
11	news.newusers.questions	417	0.63
12	us.jobs	321	0.48
13	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	302	0.45
14	alt.sex.pictures	296	0.44
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	276	0.41
16	alt.sex.pictures.female	269	0.40
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	259	0.39
18	talk.politics.misc	246	0.37
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	234	0.35
20	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	232	0.35

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	123.26	52.13
2	alt.binaries	67.29	28.46
3	alt.binaries.pictures	33.42	14.14
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	25.08	10.61
5	rec	22.17	9.38
6	alt.sex	18.06	7.64
7	comp	12.63	5.34
8	alt.binaries.warez	10.97	4.64
9	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	9.52	4.03
10	alt.binaries.games	8.09	3.42
11	tw	6.37	2.70
12	tw.bbs	6.29	2.66
13	soc	5.93	2.51
14	misc	5.93	2.51
15	alt.binaries.multimedia	5.90	2.50
16	alt.sex.pictures	5.50	2.33
17	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	5.25	2.22
18	alt.fan	4.76	2.01
19	rec.arts	4.46	1.89
20	soc.culture	4.31	1.82

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	32202	48.25
2	rec	13281	19.90
3	comp	10677	16.00
4	misc	5951	8.92
5	tw	5921	8.87
6	tw.bbs	5884	8.82
7	alt.sex	5416	8.12
8	alt.binaries	5258	7.88
9	soc	4261	6.38
10	alt.binaries.pictures	4174	6.25
11	misc.jobs	3408	5.11
12	us	3192	4.78
13	soc.culture	3191	4.78
14	us.jobs	3092	4.63
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3036	4.55
16	comp.sys	2900	4.35
17	biz	2681	4.02
18	ba	2455	3.68
19	rec.arts	2228	3.34
20	misc.jobs.offered	2224	3.33

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1996/12/17	22.52	3.41			6179	3.31
1996/12/18	359.74	54.47			100967	54.16
1996/12/20	278.20	42.12			79277	42.53

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	26.94	4.08			6924	3.71
01	30.55	4.62			9594	5.15
02	36.36	5.51			9644	5.17
03	28.18	4.27			8845	4.74
04	32.02	4.85			9512	5.10
05	34.61	5.24			9231	4.95
06	44.60	6.75			8585	4.61
07	31.04	4.70			8735	4.69
08	24.97	3.78			6736	3.61
09	21.55	3.26			6738	3.61
10	45.79	6.93			9584	5.14
11	30.28	4.59			9277	4.98
12	27.06	4.10			9237	4.95
13	28.28	4.28			8646	4.64
14	30.86	4.67			9293	4.98
15	26.64	4.03			8691	4.66
16	22.82	3.46			8942	4.80
17	15.07	2.28			4674	2.51
18	14.35	2.17			4494	2.41
19	17.99	2.72			4483	2.40
20	16.69	2.53			4907	2.63
21	18.88	2.86			5572	2.99
22	34.35	5.20			9225	4.95
23	20.58	3.12			4854	2.60

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Tuesday	22.52	3.41			6179	3.31
Wednesday	359.74	54.47			100967	54.16
Friday	278.20	42.12			79277	42.53