Usenet Statistics (1996/12/24 - 1996/12/24)

Average daily rate: 107.38 Mb, 38513 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	76.57	71.30
2	news.webspan.net	16.98	15.81
3	news-out.internetmci.com	13.83	12.88
4	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	35082	91.09
2	news.webspan.net	2508	6.51
3	news-out.internetmci.com	923	2.40
4	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	3.11	2.90
2	es.alt.binarios.sexo	2.60	2.42
3	alt.hackintosh	2.21	2.06
4	alt.binaries.games	1.47	1.37
5	alt.warez.ibm-pc.apps	1.33	1.23
6	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	1.25	1.16
7	bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	1.20	1.11
8	alt.mac.games.binaries	1.16	1.08
9	alt.games	1.04	0.97
10	alt.pantyhose	0.98	0.91
11	alt.sex.fetish.sailor-moon	0.87	0.81
12	alt.test	0.72	0.67
13	ncar.weather	0.71	0.66
14	alt.sex.pictures	0.64	0.59
15	brightnet.saa.subs	0.59	0.55
16	alt.binaries.mac.games	0.58	0.54
17	alt.binaries.warez.mac	0.57	0.54
18	ba.jobs.offered	0.57	0.53
19	chinese.flame	0.56	0.52
20	chinese.text.unicode	0.53	0.50

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	880	2.28
2	ba.jobs.offered	745	1.93
3	us.jobs.offered	713	1.85
4	biz.jobs.offered	548	1.42
5	comp.jobs.offered	512	1.33
6	prg.jobs	330	0.86
7	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	317	0.82
8	misc.jobs.contract	315	0.82
9	news.newusers.questions	305	0.79
10	talk.politics.misc	301	0.78
11	alt.jobs	301	0.78
12	us.jobs	282	0.73
13	soc.culture.singapore	274	0.71
14	us.jobs.contract	267	0.69
15	alt.politics.usa.republican	255	0.66
16	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	255	0.66
17	comp.jobs	254	0.66
18	alt.conspiracy	240	0.62
19	tw.bbs.sci.astrology	236	0.61
20	comp.sys.mac.advocacy	233	0.60

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	33.73	31.41
2	alt.binaries	13.75	12.80
3	rec	13.32	12.40
4	comp	8.82	8.21
5	alt.binaries.pictures	5.88	5.48
6	soc	4.97	4.63
7	alt.binaries.warez	4.28	3.98
8	tw	4.06	3.78
9	tw.bbs	4.06	3.78
10	soc.culture	3.85	3.59
11	es	3.60	3.35
12	alt.sex	3.50	3.26
13	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	3.42	3.18
14	misc	3.36	3.13
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.34	3.11
16	comp.sys	3.32	3.09
17	es.alt	3.01	2.80
18	es.alt.binarios.sexo	2.60	2.42
19	es.alt.binarios	2.60	2.42
20	relcom	2.53	2.35

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	17392	45.16
2	rec	9394	24.39
3	comp	7935	20.60
4	tw	4140	10.75
5	tw.bbs	4126	10.71
6	soc	3611	9.38
7	misc	3359	8.72
8	comp.sys	2804	7.28
9	soc.culture	2674	6.94
10	alt.politics	2192	5.69
11	alt.sex	1901	4.94
12	biz	1845	4.79
13	talk	1788	4.64
14	comp.os	1662	4.32
15	relcom	1661	4.31
16	rec.arts	1460	3.79
17	us	1455	3.78
18	misc.jobs	1408	3.66
19	us.jobs	1371	3.56
20	rec.games	1289	3.35

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1996/12/24	107.38	100.00			38513	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	7.61	7.08			2582	6.70
01	5.94	5.53			1900	4.93
02	10.22	9.52			2857	7.42
03	5.40	5.03			1935	5.02
04	5.19	4.83			2473	6.42
05	5.79	5.39			2130	5.53
06	3.60	3.35			1388	3.60
07	4.43	4.12			1158	3.01
08	3.05	2.84			1325	3.44
09	3.01	2.81			1290	3.35
10	3.68	3.43			1430	3.71
11	3.26	3.03			1438	3.73
12	3.02	2.81			1198	3.11
13	2.53	2.36			876	2.27
14	2.22	2.07			1087	2.82
15	5.15	4.80			1765	4.58
16	5.37	5.00			1925	5.00
17	4.75	4.42			1552	4.03
18	5.55	5.17			1646	4.27
19	2.80	2.60			1154	3.00
20	1.86	1.73			959	2.49
21	4.55	4.24			1720	4.47
22	5.20	4.84			1513	3.93
23	3.22	3.00			1212	3.15

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Tuesday	107.38	100.00			38513	100.00