Usenet Statistics (1997/01/26 - 1997/01/26)

Average daily rate: 297.11 Mb, 111891 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	205.82	69.27
2	uunet	59.61	20.06
3	news-out.internetmci.com	31.32	10.54
4	jwwalker	0.31	0.10
5	newsmaster	0.05	0.02
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	82046	73.33
2	uunet	28366	25.35
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1442	1.29
4	newsmaster	18	0.02
5	jwwalker	17	0.02
6	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	6.50	2.19
2	misc.jobs.offered	3.19	1.07
3	alt.sex.pictures	2.98	1.00
4	alt.sex.trans	2.91	0.98
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	2.64	0.89
6	alt.binaries.games	2.55	0.86
7	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.15	0.72
8	news.newusers.questions	2.06	0.69
9	alt.fan.pam-anderson	2.02	0.68
10	alt.sex.pictures.female	1.97	0.66
11	alt.binaries.sounds.tv	1.88	0.63
12	us.jobs.offered	1.81	0.61
13	alt.sex.stories	1.72	0.58
14	alt.sex.pictures.male	1.71	0.58
15	ba.jobs.offered	1.68	0.56
16	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.64	0.55
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1.60	0.54
18	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.50	0.51
19	alt.sex.fetish.feet	1.50	0.50
20	alt.fan.traci-lords	1.50	0.50

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	3223	2.88
2	us.jobs.offered	3214	2.87
3	biz.jobs.offered	2647	2.37
4	ba.jobs.offered	2538	2.27
5	news.newusers.questions	1685	1.51
6	comp.jobs.offered	1385	1.24
7	alt.jobs	1037	0.93
8	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	960	0.86
9	prg.jobs	886	0.79
10	talk.politics.misc	856	0.77
11	alt.sex.pictures	841	0.75
12	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	815	0.73
13	misc.jobs.contract	791	0.71
14	alt.sex.pictures.female	788	0.70
15	comp.jobs	777	0.69
16	rec.collecting.sport.football	737	0.66
17	rec.sport.pro-wrestling	715	0.64
18	talk.politics.guns	669	0.60
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	658	0.59
20	us.jobs.contract	634	0.57

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	119.21	40.12
2	rec	69.58	23.42
3	alt.sex	47.46	15.97
4	alt.binaries	45.22	15.22
5	comp	28.41	9.56
6	alt.binaries.pictures	27.96	9.41
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	22.92	7.71
8	misc	13.64	4.59
9	alt.fan	12.63	4.25
10	rec.arts	11.69	3.94
11	rec.games	11.69	3.93
12	alt.sex.fetish	11.44	3.85
13	comp.sys	9.61	3.24
14	alt.sex.pictures	7.23	2.43
15	rec.music	7.07	2.38
16	alt.binaries.warez	6.94	2.34
17	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.51	2.19
18	rec.sport	6.11	2.06
19	rec.collecting	6.02	2.03
20	comp.os	5.82	1.96

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	84638	75.64
2	rec	48760	43.58
3	alt.sex	36495	32.62
4	comp	24215	21.64
5	misc	12847	11.48
6	alt.binaries	8666	7.75
7	rec.arts	7816	6.99
8	comp.sys	7652	6.84
9	alt.fan	7598	6.79
10	alt.binaries.pictures	7204	6.44
11	rec.games	6545	5.85
12	alt.politics	6011	5.37
13	alt.sex.fetish	5749	5.14
14	us	5581	4.99
15	rec.music	5577	4.98
16	biz	5537	4.95
17	soc	5435	4.86
18	talk	5360	4.79
19	us.jobs	5226	4.67
20	comp.os	5082	4.54

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/01/26	188.10	100.00			70840	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	20.29	10.79			6794	9.59
01	7.05	3.75			2726	3.85
02	5.20	2.77			1980	2.80
03	6.85	3.64			2334	3.29
04	9.83	5.22			4098	5.78
05	8.45	4.49			3208	4.53
06	7.70	4.09			3246	4.58
07	7.50	3.99			3062	4.32
08	13.55	7.20			5391	7.61
09	13.37	7.11			5679	8.02
10	15.93	8.47			6000	8.47
11	18.44	9.80			6580	9.29
12	15.90	8.45			5606	7.91
13	17.28	9.19			6416	9.06
14	17.50	9.30			6358	8.98
15	3.27	1.74			1362	1.92

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	188.10	100.00			70840	100.00