Usenet Statistics (1997/01/01 - 1997/01/01)

Average daily rate: 153.99 Mb, 36994 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	69.87	45.37
2	news.webspan.net	42.47	27.58
3	news-out.internetmci.com	41.66	27.05
4	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	26557	71.79
2	news.webspan.net	8700	23.52
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1736	4.69
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	8.17	5.30
2	alt.test	6.68	4.34
3	alt.binaries.games	5.96	3.87
4	alt.binaries.mac.applications	4.12	2.68
5	de.alt.binaries.pictures.male	3.21	2.08
6	alt.games	3.06	1.99
7	alt.binaries.mac.games	2.31	1.50
8	bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	2.28	1.48
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.male	1.85	1.20
10	alt.mac.games.binaries	1.72	1.12
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1.62	1.05
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	1.41	0.91
13	alt.hackintosh	1.31	0.85
14	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	1.30	0.84
15	rec.sport.misc	1.13	0.73
16	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.11	0.72
17	alt.mag.playboy	1.03	0.67
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.black.females	1.02	0.66
19	alt.binaries.heretic	1.02	0.66
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.male	1.00	0.65

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	527	1.43
2	ba.jobs.offered	501	1.36
3	biz.jobs.offered	477	1.29
4	us.jobs.offered	469	1.27
5	comp.jobs.offered	348	0.94
6	news.newusers.questions	348	0.94
7	alt.christnet	295	0.80
8	soc.culture.singapore	279	0.76
9	alt.religion.christian	258	0.70
10	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	255	0.69
11	alt.politics.clinton	255	0.69
12	talk.abortion	234	0.63
13	talk.politics.misc	225	0.61
14	alt.politics.usa.republican	209	0.57
15	misc.jobs.contract	208	0.56
16	alt.atheism	199	0.54
17	alt.conspiracy	194	0.53
18	prg.jobs	192	0.52
19	talk.origins	191	0.52
20	alt.christnet.bible	185	0.50

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	84.91	55.14
2	alt.binaries	48.64	31.59
3	alt.binaries.pictures	20.32	13.19
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	15.77	10.24
5	rec	15.30	9.94
6	alt.binaries.warez	10.74	6.98
7	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	9.49	6.16
8	alt.sex	8.34	5.42
9	comp	7.49	4.86
10	alt.test	6.81	4.42
11	alt.binaries.mac	6.43	4.18
12	alt.binaries.games	6.00	3.89
13	soc	4.95	3.22
14	de	4.65	3.02
15	alt.binaries.mac.applications	4.12	2.68
16	soc.culture	3.62	2.35
17	de.alt	3.58	2.32
18	de.alt.binaries	3.36	2.18
19	de.alt.binaries.pictures	3.35	2.18
20	alt.games	3.30	2.14

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	23809	64.36
2	rec	9653	26.09
3	comp	6534	17.66
4	alt.sex	4008	10.84
5	soc	3407	9.21
6	alt.binaries	3160	8.54
7	tw	2874	7.77
8	tw.bbs	2863	7.74
9	misc	2577	6.97
10	soc.culture	2396	6.48
11	alt.binaries.pictures	2309	6.24
12	comp.sys	2268	6.13
13	alt.politics	2066	5.59
14	talk	1860	5.03
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1770	4.78
16	rec.arts	1669	4.51
17	comp.os	1383	3.74
18	rec.games	1345	3.64
19	biz	1264	3.42
20	sci	1167	3.16

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/01	134.50	100.00			32311	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	3.30	2.45			902	2.79
01	5.04	3.75			1529	4.73
02	5.88	4.37			1813	5.61
03	9.89	7.35			2331	7.21
04	3.56	2.65			1675	5.18
05	7.04	5.24			1682	5.21
06	11.76	8.74			1719	5.32
07	2.72	2.02			682	2.11
08	3.55	2.64			986	3.05
09	8.11	6.03			1015	3.14
10	2.42	1.80			946	2.93
11	3.82	2.84			1050	3.25
12	6.89	5.12			1263	3.91
13	4.71	3.50			1386	4.29
14	7.76	5.77			1794	5.55
15	5.96	4.43			1779	5.51
16	6.77	5.03			2195	6.79
17	10.56	7.85			2222	6.88
18	4.53	3.37			1524	4.72
19	6.61	4.91			1324	4.10
20	13.63	10.13			2494	7.72

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	134.50	100.00			32311	100.00