Usenet Statistics (1997/01/11 - 1997/01/11)

Average daily rate: 1369.15 Mb, 135084 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	928.02	67.78
2	news.webspan.net	343.34	25.08
3	uunet	97.79	7.14
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	news.webspan.net	58294	43.15
2	uunet	49217	36.43
3	news-out.internetmci.com	27570	20.41
4	newsmaster	1	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	186.09	13.59
2	alt.binaries.games	137.25	10.02
3	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	49.16	3.59
4	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	29.47	2.15
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	28.78	2.10
6	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	24.49	1.79
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	22.41	1.64
8	alt.binaries.mac.applications	22.18	1.62
9	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	19.06	1.39
10	alt.sex.sounds	18.10	1.32
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	12.37	0.90
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.black.females	12.00	0.88
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	11.81	0.86
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	11.62	0.85
15	alt.binaries.nude.celebrities	10.64	0.78
16	alt.warez.ibm-pc.games	9.79	0.72
17	alt.sex.pictures.female	9.48	0.69
18	alt.binaries.pictures.boys	9.43	0.69
19	alt.binaries.sounds.music	9.23	0.67
20	alt.sex.pictures	8.84	0.65

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	1545	1.14
2	alt.sex.pictures.female	1149	0.85
3	news.newusers.questions	1001	0.74
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	988	0.73
5	alt.sex.pictures	926	0.69
6	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	769	0.57
7	biz.jobs.offered	738	0.55
8	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	737	0.55
9	ba.jobs.offered	720	0.53
10	alt.sex	716	0.53
11	alt.sex.swingers	699	0.52
12	misc.jobs.contract	691	0.51
13	alt.sex.wanted	678	0.50
14	us.jobs.offered	674	0.50
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	661	0.49
16	alt.sex.telephone	623	0.46
17	tw.bbs.forsale.computer	617	0.46
18	alt.sex.services	612	0.45
19	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	606	0.45
20	alt.sex.breast	580	0.43

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	1155.58	84.40
2	alt.binaries	916.93	66.97
3	alt.binaries.pictures	367.43	26.84
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	244.67	17.87
5	alt.binaries.warez	232.71	17.00
6	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	221.22	16.16
7	alt.sex	146.66	10.71
8	alt.binaries.games	137.47	10.04
9	alt.binaries.sounds	73.96	5.40
10	rec	62.30	4.55
11	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	49.16	3.59
12	alt.binaries.multimedia	34.00	2.48
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic	31.13	2.27
14	alt.fan	29.77	2.17
15	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	29.47	2.15
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	28.78	2.10
17	alt.sex.fetish	27.28	1.99
18	alt.binaries.mac	26.05	1.90
19	alt.sex.pictures	25.86	1.89
20	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	25.63	1.87

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	90665	67.12
2	alt.sex	32295	23.91
3	rec	32259	23.88
4	alt.binaries	21702	16.07
5	alt.binaries.pictures	16925	12.53
6	comp	16001	11.85
7	tw	13759	10.19
8	tw.bbs	13697	10.14
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	13045	9.66
10	misc	8252	6.11
11	soc	7332	5.43
12	comp.sys	5762	4.27
13	rec.arts	5463	4.04
14	soc.culture	4970	3.68
15	alt.fan	4563	3.38
16	microsoft	4133	3.06
17	alt.sex.fetish	4085	3.02
18	rec.games	4080	3.02
19	microsoft.public	4040	2.99
20	rec.music	3838	2.84

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/11	724.48	100.00			71479	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	33.81	4.67			4942	6.91
01	66.64	9.20			5020	7.02
02	67.08	9.26			4679	6.55
03	48.03	6.63			4446	6.22
04	61.33	8.47			5214	7.29
05	72.14	9.96			5462	7.64
06	64.51	8.90			5709	7.99
07	66.34	9.16			5613	7.85
08	51.82	7.15			6376	8.92
09	66.80	9.22			6976	9.76
10	45.02	6.21			6243	8.73
11	40.40	5.58			6408	8.96
12	40.55	5.60			4391	6.14

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	724.48	100.00			71479	100.00