Usenet Statistics (1996/12/22 - 1996/12/22)

Average daily rate: 111.34 Mb, 37772 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	uunet	68.51	61.53
2	news.webspan.net	24.92	22.38
3	news-out.internetmci.com	17.89	16.07
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.01
5	weezr	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	35335	93.55
2	news.webspan.net	1427	3.78
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1004	2.66
4	newsmaster	5	0.01
5	weezr	1	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.warez.ibm-pc	6.37	5.72
2	alt.binaries.games	3.65	3.28
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.74	1.56
4	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.62	1.45
5	alt.binaries.misc	1.34	1.20
6	alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities	1.29	1.16
7	alt.binaries.mac.games	1.20	1.08
8	alt.mag.playboy	1.19	1.07
9	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	1.16	1.04
10	ncar.weather	0.99	0.89
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob	0.96	0.86
12	alt.binaries.sounds.cartoons	0.93	0.83
13	alt.binaries.nude.celebrities	0.90	0.81
14	alt.test	0.90	0.81
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	0.80	0.72
16	alt.binaries.warez	0.71	0.64
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	0.65	0.58
18	de.alt.sources.linux.patches	0.63	0.56
19	alt.binaries.pictures.children	0.63	0.56
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	0.62	0.55

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.newusers.questions	361	0.96
2	control	255	0.68
3	misc.jobs.offered	252	0.67
4	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	238	0.63
5	ncar.weather	225	0.60
6	tw.bbs.forsale.computer	203	0.54
7	soc.culture.singapore	198	0.52
8	tw.bbs.forsale	185	0.49
9	tw.bbs.rec.pcgame	178	0.47
10	rec.collecting.sport.football	168	0.44
11	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	166	0.44
12	biz.jobs.offered	161	0.43
13	talk.politics.misc	160	0.42
14	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	153	0.41
15	alt.politics.usa.republican	153	0.41
16	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video	146	0.39
17	comp.sys.mac.advocacy	141	0.37
18	tw.bbs.rec.tv	139	0.37
19	tw.bbs.sports.basketball	137	0.36
20	ba.jobs.offered	132	0.35

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	44.66	40.11
2	alt.binaries	36.14	32.46
3	alt.binaries.pictures	15.62	14.03
4	rec	14.50	13.02
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	10.38	9.32
6	alt.binaries.warez	7.46	6.70
7	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.51	5.85
8	comp	6.26	5.62
9	tw	5.82	5.23
10	tw.bbs	5.81	5.22
11	soc	4.57	4.10
12	alt.binaries.games	3.65	3.28
13	soc.culture	3.34	3.00
14	de	2.83	2.54
15	misc	2.71	2.44
16	rec.arts	2.57	2.31
17	rec.games	2.49	2.23
18	comp.sys	2.34	2.10
19	fido	2.20	1.97
20	alt.binaries.sounds	2.12	1.91

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	10632	28.15
2	rec	10032	26.56
3	tw	5446	14.42
4	tw.bbs	5432	14.38
5	comp	5378	14.24
6	soc	3546	9.39
7	soc.culture	2636	6.98
8	misc	2188	5.79
9	comp.sys	2110	5.59
10	alt.binaries	1833	4.85
11	rec.arts	1576	4.17
12	rec.games	1538	4.07
13	fido	1419	3.76
14	alt.binaries.pictures	1397	3.70
15	comp.os	1303	3.45
16	tw.bbs.rec	1272	3.37
17	alt.politics	1182	3.13
18	talk	1165	3.08
19	tw.bbs.comp	1160	3.07
20	alt.sex	1134	3.00

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1996/12/22	111.32	100.00			37766	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	4.39	3.94			1860	4.93
01	4.59	4.13			1686	4.46
02	6.57	5.90			1622	4.29
03	5.61	5.04			1828	4.84
04	4.63	4.16			1715	4.54
05	3.50	3.14			1623	4.30
06	2.80	2.52			1567	4.15
07	5.86	5.27			1891	5.01
08	13.76	12.36			1882	4.98
09	5.06	4.54			1967	5.21
10	6.21	5.57			1897	5.02
11	3.94	3.54			1602	4.24
12	3.01	2.70			1120	2.97
13	2.18	1.95			912	2.41
14	2.58	2.32			1142	3.02
15	2.77	2.49			1389	3.68
16	6.21	5.58			1406	3.72
17	3.98	3.58			1638	4.34
18	4.80	4.31			1655	4.38
19	4.71	4.23			1628	4.31
20	4.66	4.18			1652	4.37
21	1.93	1.74			1006	2.66
22	2.87	2.57			1425	3.77
23	4.70	4.22			1653	4.38

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	111.32	100.00			37766	100.00