Usenet Statistics (1969/12/31 - 1997/01/07)

Average daily rate: 0.09 Mb, 23 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.webspan.net	0.03	37.70
2	uunet	0.03	31.81
3	news-out.internetmci.com	0.03	30.49
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	13	57.11
2	news.webspan.net	8	35.63
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1	7.24
4	newsmaster	0	0.01
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	0.01	6.19
2	alt.binaries.games	0.00	3.58
3	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	0.00	1.42
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob	0.00	1.30
5	alt.games	0.00	1.12
6	alt.test	0.00	0.99
7	alt.binaries.mac.games	0.00	0.91
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.male	0.00	0.85
9	misc.jobs.offered	0.00	0.81
10	alt.sex.pictures	0.00	0.79
11	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	0.00	0.76
12	alt.sex.pictures.female	0.00	0.75
13	alt.binaries.mac.applications	0.00	0.71
14	alt.sex.pictures.male	0.00	0.62
15	alt.fan.julia-hayes	0.00	0.61
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	0.00	0.59
17	ba.jobs.offered	0.00	0.59
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	0.00	0.58
19	biz.jobs.offered	0.00	0.56
20	alt.warez.ibm-pc.games	0.00	0.52

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	1	4.94
2	biz.jobs.offered	1	4.93
3	us.jobs.offered	1	4.29
4	comp.jobs.offered	0	4.10
5	misc.jobs.contract	0	2.99
6	ba.jobs.offered	0	2.89
7	us.jobs.contract	0	2.58
8	prg.jobs	0	1.11
9	comp.jobs	0	1.07
10	alt.jobs	0	1.07
11	misc.jobs	0	0.62
12	us.jobs	0	0.62
13	news.newusers.questions	0	0.60
14	la.jobs	0	0.51
15	tx.jobs	0	0.47
16	hk.test	0	0.47
17	nyc.jobs.contract	0	0.44
18	nj.jobs	0	0.43
19	control	0	0.43
20	us.jobs.misc	0	0.42

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	0.05	57.06
2	alt.binaries	0.03	31.60
3	alt.binaries.pictures	0.01	14.70
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	0.01	11.11
5	rec	0.01	9.55
6	alt.sex	0.01	8.97
7	alt.binaries.warez	0.01	7.40
8	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	0.01	6.80
9	comp	0.00	4.93
10	alt.binaries.games	0.00	3.58
11	misc	0.00	2.75
12	alt.fan	0.00	2.73
13	alt.sex.pictures	0.00	2.26
14	soc	0.00	1.99
15	rec.arts	0.00	1.86
16	alt.sex.fetish	0.00	1.83
17	tw	0.00	1.72
18	tw.bbs	0.00	1.71
19	alt.binaries.multimedia	0.00	1.70
20	alt.binaries.mac	0.00	1.62

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	13	58.79
2	rec	5	22.53
3	comp	4	18.58
4	alt.sex	3	15.33
5	misc	2	12.77
6	alt.binaries	2	11.00
7	misc.jobs	2	8.88
8	alt.binaries.pictures	2	8.60
9	us	1	8.31
10	us.jobs	1	8.17
11	biz	1	6.42
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1	6.01
13	tw	1	5.97
14	tw.bbs	1	5.93
15	soc	1	5.41
16	comp.jobs	1	5.27
17	biz.jobs	1	5.19
18	misc.jobs.offered	1	5.01
19	biz.jobs.offered	1	4.93
20	comp.sys	1	4.58

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1969/12/31	0.00	0.00			1	0.00
1997/01/07	867.44	100.00			230338	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
02	6.95	0.80			1845	0.80
03	36.04	4.15			11635	5.05
04	33.21	3.83			10434	4.53
05	45.05	5.19			12563	5.45
06	52.62	6.07			13067	5.67
07	44.33	5.11			13482	5.85
08	45.31	5.22			12474	5.42
09	34.90	4.02			12208	5.30
10	49.22	5.67			11039	4.79
11	43.30	4.99			11231	4.88
12	43.09	4.97			11420	4.96
13	30.98	3.57			7586	3.29
14	44.17	5.09			9986	4.34
15	41.70	4.81			10357	4.50
16	52.07	6.00			10435	4.53
17	40.50	4.67			11351	4.93
18	41.07	4.73			11210	4.87
19	44.79	5.16			10667	4.63
20	37.04	4.27			9060	3.93
21	29.84	3.44			8916	3.87
22	35.74	4.12			9871	4.29
23	35.54	4.10			9502	4.13

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Tuesday	867.44	100.00			230338	100.00
Wednesday	0.00	0.00			1	0.00