Usenet Statistics (1997/01/06 - 1997/01/06)

Average daily rate: 72.12 Mb, 21873 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	30.61	42.44
2	news-out.internetmci.com	20.90	28.98
3	news.webspan.net	20.55	28.50
4	newsmaster	0.03	0.05
5	ip-33.sb.net	0.02	0.03
6	fido.metaflow.com	0.00	0.00
7	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	14547	66.50
2	news.webspan.net	5487	25.09
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1806	8.26
4	newsmaster	16	0.08
5	ip-33.sb.net	14	0.07
6	fido.metaflow.com	1	0.00
7	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	4.33	6.00
2	alt.games	2.55	3.53
3	alt.binaries.games	2.40	3.33
4	alt.hackintosh	1.46	2.02
5	alt.binaries.mac.games	0.99	1.37
6	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	0.97	1.34
7	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.old	0.93	1.29
8	alt.fan.patricia	0.93	1.29
9	alt.cracks	0.70	0.97
10	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	0.70	0.96
11	alt.sex.fetish.smoking	0.69	0.96
12	alt.fan.winona-ryder	0.57	0.78
13	alt.sex.pedophilia	0.56	0.78
14	misc.jobs.offered	0.53	0.73
15	chinese.flame	0.53	0.73
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	0.51	0.71
17	alt.warez.ibm-pc.games	0.50	0.69
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.panties	0.50	0.69
19	alt.mag.playboy	0.43	0.60
20	chinese.talk.misc	0.42	0.59

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	634	2.90
2	biz.jobs.offered	374	1.71
3	ba.jobs.offered	361	1.65
4	us.jobs.offered	326	1.49
5	comp.jobs.offered	206	0.94
6	comp.jobs	182	0.83
7	prg.jobs	175	0.80
8	control	168	0.77
9	misc.jobs.contract	145	0.67
10	news.newusers.questions	126	0.58
11	talk.politics.misc	117	0.54
12	us.jobs.contract	113	0.52
13	alt.politics.usa.republican	108	0.50
14	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	105	0.48
15	tw.bbs.forsale.computer	100	0.46
16	rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated	92	0.42
17	alt.politics.clinton	91	0.42
18	tw.bbs.forsale	88	0.41
19	tw.bbs.rec.pcgame	84	0.39
20	alt.politics.correct	82	0.38

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	35.70	49.50
2	alt.binaries	17.18	23.82
3	rec	7.39	10.24
4	alt.binaries.pictures	6.95	9.64
5	alt.binaries.warez	6.23	8.64
6	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.23	8.63
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.95	6.87
8	alt.sex	4.39	6.09
9	comp	4.02	5.58
10	alt.games	2.63	3.64
11	tw	2.41	3.34
12	tw.bbs	2.40	3.33
13	alt.binaries.games	2.40	3.33
14	alt.fan	2.21	3.06
15	soc	1.96	2.71
16	misc	1.86	2.58
17	alt.hackintosh	1.46	2.02
18	de	1.39	1.93
19	rec.games	1.38	1.91
20	rec.arts	1.27	1.76

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	9933	45.41
2	rec	4723	21.60
3	comp	3383	15.47
4	tw	2157	9.86
5	tw.bbs	2148	9.82
6	alt.sex	2024	9.25
7	alt.binaries	1645	7.52
8	misc	1625	7.43
9	soc	1467	6.71
10	alt.binaries.pictures	1286	5.88
11	comp.sys	1077	4.92
12	soc.culture	1076	4.92
13	alt.politics	922	4.22
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	910	4.16
15	misc.jobs	857	3.92
16	rec.arts	833	3.81
17	biz	721	3.30
18	de	685	3.13
19	misc.jobs.offered	648	2.97
20	talk	635	2.90

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/06	68.90	100.00			20898	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	2.89	4.19			912	4.36
01	6.80	9.87			1305	6.24
02	2.28	3.31			992	4.75
03	7.13	10.35			950	4.55
04	6.02	8.74			1476	7.06
05	2.27	3.30			898	4.30
06	2.81	4.08			995	4.76
07	2.21	3.21			964	4.61
08	1.99	2.88			910	4.35
09	1.98	2.87			858	4.11
10	2.60	3.78			909	4.35
11	1.80	2.61			783	3.75
12	3.32	4.82			1003	4.80
13	2.33	3.38			762	3.65
14	1.39	2.02			666	3.19
15	3.41	4.95			1181	5.65
16	3.99	5.79			857	4.10
17	3.83	5.55			839	4.01
18	2.69	3.90			771	3.69
19	1.40	2.03			685	3.28
20	1.66	2.41			664	3.18
21	1.77	2.57			747	3.57
22	2.34	3.40			771	3.69

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Monday	68.90	100.00			20898	100.00