Usenet Statistics (1997/01/03 - 1997/01/03)

Average daily rate: 62.78 Mb, 20595 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	31.18	49.67
2	news.webspan.net	17.84	28.41
3	news-out.internetmci.com	13.75	21.91
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.01
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	14623	71.00
2	news.webspan.net	4345	21.10
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1622	7.88
4	newsmaster	4	0.02
5	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	2.41	3.84
2	alt.mag.playboy	1.24	1.98
3	alt.games	1.20	1.91
4	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	1.04	1.65
5	alt.binaries.games	1.03	1.65
6	can.uucp.maps	0.98	1.57
7	gsl.dns	0.93	1.48
8	comp.mail.maps	0.80	1.28
9	alt.sex.pictures	0.78	1.24
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.male	0.71	1.13
11	ba.jobs.offered	0.65	1.04
12	alt.supermodels.cindy-crawford	0.57	0.91
13	rec.games.video.nintendo	0.53	0.84
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	0.47	0.75
15	alt.binaries.warez	0.45	0.72
16	alt.binaries.misc	0.45	0.72
17	alt.fan.traci-lords	0.42	0.66
18	es.alt.binarios.sexo	0.41	0.65
19	alt.binaries.mac.applications	0.39	0.62
20	comp.os.linux.answers	0.38	0.60

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	ba.jobs.offered	704	3.42
2	misc.jobs.offered	637	3.09
3	us.jobs.offered	580	2.82
4	misc.jobs.contract	488	2.37
5	biz.jobs.offered	459	2.23
6	us.jobs.contract	439	2.13
7	comp.jobs.offered	391	1.90
8	prg.jobs	264	1.28
9	comp.jobs	192	0.93
10	alt.computer.consultants.ads	177	0.86
11	control	125	0.61
12	ba.jobs.contract	118	0.57
13	news.newusers.questions	112	0.54
14	soc.culture.singapore	95	0.46
15	alt.christnet	93	0.45
16	tx.jobs	90	0.44
17	talk.politics.misc	86	0.42
18	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	86	0.42
19	bit.listserv.christia	85	0.41
20	us.jobs	84	0.41

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	24.54	39.08
2	alt.binaries	11.87	18.91
3	rec	7.62	12.13
4	alt.binaries.pictures	5.98	9.52
5	comp	5.88	9.36
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.08	6.50
7	alt.binaries.warez	3.24	5.17
8	alt.sex	3.01	4.79
9	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2.45	3.90
10	tw	1.75	2.79
11	tw.bbs	1.75	2.79
12	rec.games	1.73	2.76
13	soc	1.71	2.73
14	bit	1.65	2.63
15	bit.listserv	1.63	2.59
16	comp.sys	1.57	2.50
17	misc	1.50	2.39
18	rec.arts	1.43	2.27
19	alt.games	1.36	2.16
20	alt.mag.playboy	1.24	1.98

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	10086	48.98
2	rec	5015	24.35
3	comp	3765	18.28
4	misc	1985	9.64
5	tw	1723	8.37
6	tw.bbs	1716	8.33
7	alt.sex	1703	8.27
8	soc	1460	7.09
9	misc.jobs	1249	6.07
10	us	1229	5.97
11	us.jobs	1179	5.73
12	comp.sys	1172	5.69
13	alt.binaries	1170	5.68
14	soc.culture	1003	4.87
15	ba	973	4.73
16	biz	956	4.64
17	alt.binaries.pictures	855	4.15
18	ba.jobs	853	4.14
19	rec.games	817	3.97
20	rec.arts	794	3.86

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/03	62.77	100.00			20592	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	3.41	5.43			949	4.61
01	2.93	4.66			1065	5.17
02	3.31	5.27			1077	5.23
03	3.53	5.62			1117	5.42
04	2.84	4.52			1081	5.25
05	2.48	3.95			716	3.48
06	4.59	7.31			1033	5.02
07	2.04	3.26			774	3.76
08	2.17	3.46			704	3.42
09	2.55	4.06			992	4.82
10	1.87	2.97			786	3.82
11	1.28	2.05			602	2.92
12	2.55	4.06			871	4.23
13	2.68	4.28			603	2.93
14	2.49	3.97			650	3.16
15	1.64	2.61			727	3.53
16	3.33	5.31			942	4.57
17	1.82	2.90			628	3.05
18	2.50	3.98			649	3.15
19	2.26	3.60			767	3.72
20	1.97	3.14			753	3.66
21	1.34	2.13			765	3.72
22	2.17	3.46			890	4.32
23	5.02	7.99			1451	7.05

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Friday	62.77	100.00			20592	100.00