Usenet Statistics (1997/01/09 - 1997/01/09)

Average daily rate: 1138.75 Mb, 230636 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	455.06	39.96
2	uunet	391.09	34.34
3	news.webspan.net	292.59	25.69
4	newsmaster	0.01	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	164449	71.30
2	news.webspan.net	49175	21.32
3	news-out.internetmci.com	16999	7.37
4	newsmaster	11	0.00
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	105.85	9.30
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	55.09	4.84
3	alt.binaries.games	51.94	4.56
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	17.23	1.51
5	alt.binaries.mac.applications	16.56	1.45
6	comp.mail.maps	14.94	1.31
7	alt.sex.pictures.female	13.72	1.20
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	12.58	1.11
9	han.test	12.58	1.11
10	alt.sex.exhibitionism	12.20	1.07
11	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports	11.18	0.98
12	alt.binaries.mac.games	10.48	0.92
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	9.85	0.87
14	can.uucp.maps	9.00	0.79
15	comp.emulators.misc	8.69	0.76
16	es.alt.binarios.sexo	8.03	0.70
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	7.34	0.64
18	alt.hackintosh	7.18	0.63
19	alt.sex.fetish.fa	7.01	0.62
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	6.99	0.61

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	ba.jobs.offered	4269	1.85
2	misc.jobs.offered	2750	1.19
3	us.jobs.offered	2604	1.13
4	tw.bbs.sports.basketball	1875	0.81
5	misc.jobs.contract	1673	0.73
6	biz.jobs.offered	1514	0.66
7	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	1442	0.63
8	us.jobs.contract	1319	0.57
9	tw.bbs.forsale.computer	1235	0.54
10	tw.bbs.forsale	1228	0.53
11	tw.bbs.rec.pcgame	1226	0.53
12	news.newusers.questions	1076	0.47
13	prg.jobs	1060	0.46
14	alt.sex.pictures.female	901	0.39
15	comp.jobs.offered	901	0.39
16	us.jobs	808	0.35
17	control	781	0.34
18	soc.culture.singapore	763	0.33
19	alt.sex.pictures	760	0.33
20	tw.bbs.sci.astrology	758	0.33

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	671.65	58.98
2	alt.binaries	472.77	41.52
3	alt.binaries.pictures	179.70	15.78
4	alt.sex	136.36	11.97
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	128.64	11.30
6	alt.binaries.warez	116.54	10.23
7	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	113.57	9.97
8	comp	66.04	5.80
9	alt.binaries.multimedia	55.78	4.90
10	rec	55.39	4.86
11	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	55.10	4.84
12	alt.binaries.games	51.96	4.56
13	tw	31.93	2.80
14	tw.bbs	31.90	2.80
15	alt.sex.fetish	30.30	2.66
16	alt.sex.pictures	28.32	2.49
17	alt.binaries.mac	27.05	2.38
18	soc	26.95	2.37
19	comp.sys	21.99	1.93
20	de	20.17	1.77

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	97406	42.23
2	alt.sex	38175	16.55
3	rec	36177	15.69
4	tw	30541	13.24
5	tw.bbs	30450	13.20
6	comp	26639	11.55
7	soc	17971	7.79
8	alt.binaries	16588	7.19
9	soc.culture	13211	5.73
10	alt.binaries.pictures	12644	5.48
11	misc	11209	4.86
12	de	9973	4.32
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	9240	4.01
14	comp.sys	7816	3.39
15	tw.bbs.rec	7437	3.22
16	relcom	7303	3.17
17	sci	7300	3.17
18	uk	6955	3.02
19	alt.sex.fetish	6553	2.84
20	tw.bbs.comp	6385	2.77

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/09	501.46	100.00			101563	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	50.80	10.13			6572	6.47
01	53.02	10.57			9628	9.48
02	55.39	11.05			10009	9.85
03	56.21	11.21			10839	10.67
04	50.06	9.98			10848	10.68
05	47.83	9.54			10646	10.48
06	41.99	8.37			9810	9.66
07	35.54	7.09			9483	9.34
08	38.71	7.72			9449	9.30
09	49.16	9.80			9189	9.05
10	22.74	4.53			5090	5.01

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Thursday	501.46	100.00			101563	100.00