Usenet Statistics (1997/01/04 - 1997/01/04)

Average daily rate: 105.08 Mb, 24823 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	news-out.internetmci.com	42.96	40.88
2	uunet	41.31	39.31
3	news.webspan.net	20.81	19.80
4	newsmaster	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	19941	80.33
2	news.webspan.net	2726	10.98
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2152	8.67
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	6.83	6.50
2	alt.games	2.42	2.31
3	alt.binaries.nude.celebrities	2.11	2.01
4	alt.binaries.warez	1.89	1.80
5	alt.binaries.games	1.76	1.68
6	alt.binaries.pictures.cocks	1.68	1.60
7	alt.binaries.mac.applications	1.64	1.56
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	1.54	1.47
9	alt.fan.julia-hayes	1.33	1.27
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bestiality	1.29	1.23
11	alt.cracks	1.23	1.17
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	1.10	1.05
13	alt.binaries.great.ass.paulina	1.03	0.98
14	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	1.03	0.98
15	alt.mag.playboy	1.01	0.96
16	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	1.00	0.95
17	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	1.00	0.95
18	es.alt.binarios.sexo	0.97	0.92
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	0.97	0.92
20	alt.binaries.mac.games	0.97	0.92

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	464	1.87
2	biz.jobs.offered	384	1.55
3	ba.jobs.offered	380	1.53
4	comp.jobs.offered	336	1.35
5	misc.jobs.offered	323	1.30
6	news.newusers.questions	234	0.94
7	misc.jobs.contract	199	0.80
8	soc.culture.singapore	189	0.76
9	prg.jobs	175	0.71
10	comp.jobs	171	0.69
11	us.jobs.contract	159	0.64
12	talk.politics.misc	151	0.61
13	alt.politics.usa.republican	145	0.58
14	tw.bbs.rec.pcgame	135	0.54
15	tw.bbs.sports.basketball	129	0.52
16	alt.christnet	127	0.51
17	alt.jobs	126	0.51
18	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	124	0.50
19	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	123	0.50
20	alt.conspiracy	116	0.47

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	61.71	58.72
2	alt.binaries	41.30	39.30
3	alt.binaries.pictures	19.37	18.43
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	13.32	12.68
5	rec	10.39	9.89
6	alt.binaries.warez	9.73	9.26
7	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.83	7.45
8	alt.sex	5.11	4.87
9	comp	4.15	3.95
10	soc	2.92	2.77
11	tw	2.61	2.48
12	alt.binaries.mac	2.61	2.48
13	tw.bbs	2.60	2.48
14	alt.games	2.55	2.43
15	alt.binaries.nude	2.23	2.12
16	alt.binaries.nude.celebrities	2.21	2.10
17	rec.arts	2.16	2.06
18	soc.culture	2.07	1.97
19	alt.binaries.sounds	1.93	1.84
20	misc	1.84	1.76

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	11969	48.22
2	rec	6924	27.89
3	comp	4069	16.39
4	tw	2573	10.37
5	tw.bbs	2556	10.30
6	soc	2381	9.59
7	misc	1906	7.68
8	alt.sex	1786	7.20
9	soc.culture	1733	6.98
10	alt.binaries	1675	6.75
11	comp.sys	1442	5.81
12	alt.binaries.pictures	1149	4.63
13	rec.arts	1145	4.61
14	alt.politics	1134	4.57
15	talk	1008	4.06
16	rec.games	973	3.92
17	us	966	3.89
18	biz	963	3.88
19	us.jobs	918	3.70
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	795	3.20

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/04	105.07	100.00			24822	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	3.37	3.21			1061	4.27
01	3.43	3.27			957	3.86
02	1.24	1.18			428	1.72
03	3.20	3.05			794	3.20
04	3.66	3.48			1208	4.87
05	4.69	4.47			998	4.02
06	9.45	8.99			1479	5.96
07	4.51	4.29			1045	4.21
08	4.70	4.47			1151	4.64
09	3.12	2.97			1049	4.23
10	3.29	3.13			958	3.86
11	2.96	2.82			995	4.01
12	4.42	4.21			905	3.65
13	2.71	2.58			867	3.49
14	2.91	2.77			935	3.77
15	14.11	13.43			765	3.08
16	6.78	6.45			1275	5.14
17	3.79	3.61			1162	4.68
18	6.23	5.93			1375	5.54
19	2.64	2.51			732	2.95
20	3.94	3.75			1357	5.47
21	3.91	3.72			1313	5.29
22	3.31	3.15			999	4.02
23	2.70	2.57			1014	4.09

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	105.07	100.00			24822	100.00