Usenet Statistics (1996/12/25 - 1996/12/25)

Average daily rate: 107.71 Mb, 34784 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	70.32	65.29
2	news-out.internetmci.com	20.13	18.69
3	news.webspan.net	17.26	16.02
4	ip-49.sb.net	0.00	0.00
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	30207	86.84
2	news.webspan.net	2978	8.56
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1597	4.59
4	ip-49.sb.net	1	0.00
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	3.44	3.20
2	es.alt.binarios.sexo	2.34	2.17
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2.30	2.13
4	es.alt.sexo	2.08	1.93
5	alt.fan.traci-lords	1.78	1.65
6	it.binari.cartoni	1.72	1.60
7	alt.hackintosh	1.58	1.46
8	de.alt.binaries.pictures.male	1.37	1.27
9	alt.binaries.mac.games	1.35	1.26
10	it.binari.erotismo	1.21	1.13
11	news.newusers.questions	1.02	0.95
12	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.encrypted	0.89	0.82
13	alt.binaries.warez.mac	0.86	0.80
14	alt.mac.games.binaries	0.86	0.80
15	alt.binaries.clip-art	0.85	0.79
16	alt.sex.pictures.male	0.84	0.78
17	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	0.82	0.76
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	0.81	0.75
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	0.79	0.73
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.transvestites	0.76	0.71

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	396	1.14
2	news.newusers.questions	382	1.10
3	soc.culture.singapore	317	0.91
4	biz.jobs.offered	299	0.86
5	us.jobs.offered	295	0.85
6	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	289	0.83
7	talk.politics.misc	283	0.81
8	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	273	0.78
9	tw.bbs.forsale.computer	260	0.75
10	alt.politics.usa.republican	250	0.72
11	alt.politics.clinton	235	0.68
12	alt.atheism	230	0.66
13	alt.conspiracy	221	0.64
14	tw.bbs.forsale	217	0.62
15	comp.jobs.offered	200	0.58
16	us.jobs.contract	199	0.57
17	misc.jobs.contract	195	0.56
18	talk.religion.misc	184	0.53
19	alt.religion.christian	183	0.53
20	tw.bbs.rec.pcgame	181	0.52

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	40.03	37.17
2	alt.binaries	22.52	20.91
3	rec	10.72	9.95
4	alt.binaries.pictures	10.17	9.44
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	7.79	7.24
6	comp	6.10	5.67
7	es	4.93	4.58
8	tw	4.84	4.49
9	tw.bbs	4.83	4.49
10	alt.binaries.warez	4.69	4.36
11	es.alt	4.55	4.23
12	soc	3.98	3.69
13	alt.sex	3.68	3.41
14	alt.binaries.games	3.45	3.20
15	it	3.35	3.11
16	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	3.19	2.96
17	soc.culture	3.11	2.89
18	de	3.01	2.79
19	it.binari	2.97	2.76
20	comp.sys	2.65	2.46

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	17993	51.73
2	rec	7575	21.78
3	comp	5610	16.13
4	tw	5008	14.40
5	tw.bbs	4996	14.36
6	soc	3139	9.03
7	misc	2563	7.37
8	soc.culture	2408	6.92
9	alt.sex	2369	6.81
10	comp.sys	2191	6.30
11	alt.politics	1907	5.48
12	alt.binaries	1727	4.97
13	talk	1718	4.94
14	biz	1570	4.51
15	relcom	1553	4.47
16	comp.os	1335	3.84
17	alt.binaries.pictures	1244	3.58
18	tw.bbs.rec	1211	3.48
19	rec.games	1129	3.25
20	fido	1114	3.20

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1996/12/25	107.70	100.00			34781	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	2.85	2.64			1039	2.99
01	4.28	3.97			1753	5.04
02	3.73	3.46			1033	2.97
03	7.51	6.97			2260	6.50
04	10.00	9.28			2476	7.12
05	3.52	3.27			1131	3.25
06	5.36	4.97			1738	5.00
07	3.50	3.25			1435	4.13
08	4.92	4.57			2213	6.36
09	4.65	4.32			1587	4.56
10	7.41	6.88			2277	6.55
11	8.86	8.22			1715	4.93
12	4.15	3.85			1028	2.96
13	3.51	3.26			1043	3.00
14	4.25	3.94			1195	3.44
15	4.84	4.49			1291	3.71
16	3.40	3.16			1076	3.09
17	3.47	3.23			1470	4.23
18	2.05	1.90			710	2.04
19	2.98	2.77			1185	3.41
20	2.24	2.08			966	2.78
21	4.04	3.75			1387	3.99
22	3.14	2.92			1260	3.62
23	3.06	2.84			1513	4.35

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	107.70	100.00			34781	100.00