Usenet Statistics (1997/01/25 - 1997/01/25)

Average daily rate: 149.38 Mb, 54854 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	103.16	69.06
2	uunet	30.82	20.63
3	news-out.internetmci.com	15.25	10.21
4	jwwalker	0.14	0.09
5	newsmaster	0.01	0.01
6	pfft	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	news.webspan.net	40174	73.24
2	uunet	13904	25.35
3	news-out.internetmci.com	762	1.39
4	newsmaster	8	0.01
5	jwwalker	4	0.01
6	pfft	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	3.23	2.16
2	misc.jobs.offered	2.72	1.82
3	alt.binaries.games	1.87	1.26
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1.51	1.01
5	alt.sex.pictures.female	1.46	0.97
6	alt.sex.fetish.fa	1.26	0.84
7	alt.sex.pictures	1.15	0.77
8	alt.sex.exhibitionism	1.03	0.69
9	news.newusers.questions	1.01	0.68
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1.00	0.67
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	0.98	0.66
12	alt.sex.asphyx	0.97	0.65
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	0.91	0.61
14	alt.sex.gangbang	0.88	0.59
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.big-folks	0.83	0.56
16	alt.sex.stories	0.78	0.53
17	alt.binaries.mac.games	0.77	0.52
18	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	0.76	0.51
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	0.75	0.50
20	alt.sex.trans	0.71	0.47

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	1842	3.36
2	us.jobs.offered	1229	2.24
3	ba.jobs.offered	775	1.41
4	news.newusers.questions	762	1.39
5	misc.jobs.contract	694	1.27
6	biz.jobs.offered	577	1.05
7	us.jobs.contract	552	1.01
8	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	495	0.90
9	alt.sex.pictures.female	476	0.87
10	us.jobs	412	0.75
11	alt.sex.pictures	402	0.73
12	talk.politics.misc	395	0.72
13	talk.politics.guns	345	0.63
14	rec.collecting.sport.football	343	0.63
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	338	0.62
16	alt.politics.usa.republican	334	0.61
17	alt.sex	331	0.60
18	rec.sport.pro-wrestling	329	0.60
19	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	320	0.58
20	alt.sex.girls	317	0.58

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	62.96	42.15
2	rec	34.08	22.81
3	alt.binaries	25.53	17.09
4	alt.sex	23.50	15.73
5	alt.binaries.pictures	17.07	11.43
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	14.20	9.51
7	comp	13.33	8.92
8	misc	8.22	5.50
9	rec.arts	6.35	4.25
10	rec.games	5.80	3.88
11	alt.fan	5.25	3.51
12	comp.sys	4.61	3.08
13	alt.sex.fetish	4.38	2.93
14	rec.music	3.86	2.58
15	alt.sex.pictures	3.63	2.43
16	misc.jobs	3.46	2.32
17	alt.binaries.warez	3.26	2.18
18	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	3.24	2.17
19	rec.sport	2.84	1.90
20	comp.os	2.79	1.86

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	40028	72.97
2	rec	23369	42.60
3	alt.sex	16127	29.40
4	comp	11344	20.68
5	misc	6756	12.32
6	alt.binaries	4972	9.06
7	alt.binaries.pictures	4024	7.34
8	comp.sys	3827	6.98
9	rec.arts	3702	6.75
10	alt.fan	3378	6.16
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3217	5.86
12	rec.games	3191	5.82
13	misc.jobs	3000	5.47
14	alt.politics	2943	5.37
15	rec.music	2939	5.36
16	talk	2643	4.82
17	comp.os	2568	4.68
18	us	2561	4.67
19	soc	2558	4.66
20	us.jobs	2404	4.38

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/25	149.38	100.00			54853	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	15.58	10.43			4674	8.52
01	4.60	3.08			1419	2.59
02	2.47	1.66			1018	1.86
03	3.01	2.02			934	1.70
04	2.53	1.70			1269	2.31
05	4.77	3.20			1660	3.03
06	2.26	1.52			1026	1.87
07	3.49	2.33			1225	2.23
08	3.03	2.03			1158	2.11
09	3.42	2.29			1279	2.33
10	4.15	2.77			1490	2.72
11	3.78	2.53			1332	2.43
12	2.60	1.74			1002	1.83
13	8.50	5.69			2877	5.24
14	6.10	4.08			2112	3.85
15	8.03	5.37			3319	6.05
16	9.83	6.58			3309	6.03
17	6.67	4.46			2910	5.31
18	8.34	5.59			2751	5.02
21	13.74	9.20			5683	10.36
22	14.72	9.86			6185	11.28
23	17.76	11.89			6221	11.34

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	149.38	100.00			54853	100.00