Usenet Statistics (1997/02/01 - 1997/02/01)

Average daily rate: 247.26 Mb, 81378 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	177.49	71.78
2	uunet	46.77	18.92
3	news-out.internetmci.com	22.99	9.30
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
5	anything	0.00	0.00
6	ip-81.sb.net	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	60897	74.83
2	uunet	19213	23.61
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1251	1.54
4	newsmaster	12	0.02
5	anything	2	0.00
6	ip-81.sb.net	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.sex.pictures.female	4.09	1.65
2	alt.fan.jenny-mccarthy	3.12	1.26
3	alt.sex.pictures	3.01	1.22
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.94	1.19
5	alt.sex.fetish.watersports	2.85	1.15
6	alt.sex.pictures.male	2.39	0.97
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.19	0.88
8	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.05	0.83
9	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.96	0.79
10	alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless	1.83	0.74
11	alt.sex.bestiality.pictures	1.82	0.74
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bestiality	1.81	0.73
13	es.alt.binarios.sexo	1.79	0.73
14	bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	1.65	0.67
15	rec.arts.books.marketplace	1.62	0.65
16	misc.jobs.offered	1.58	0.64
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.young	1.54	0.62
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.redheads	1.50	0.61
19	alt.sex.fetish.sailor-moon	1.45	0.58
20	alt.2600.warez	1.37	0.55

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	2532	3.11
2	biz.jobs.offered	2438	3.00
3	us.jobs.offered	2324	2.86
4	comp.jobs.offered	2062	2.53
5	misc.jobs.contract	1705	2.10
6	us.jobs.contract	1576	1.94
7	ba.jobs.offered	1021	1.26
8	news.newusers.questions	961	1.18
9	alt.sex.pictures.female	789	0.97
10	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	629	0.77
11	alt.sex.pictures	577	0.71
12	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	522	0.64
13	alt.sex	520	0.64
14	talk.politics.misc	504	0.62
15	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	492	0.61
16	rec.collecting.sport.football	479	0.59
17	alt.sex.exhibitionism	457	0.56
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	432	0.53
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	428	0.53
20	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	417	0.51

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	110.59	44.72
2	rec	51.26	20.73
3	alt.sex	43.86	17.74
4	alt.binaries	40.76	16.49
5	alt.binaries.pictures	32.93	13.32
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	26.39	10.67
7	comp	26.27	10.62
8	alt.fan	12.09	4.89
9	rec.arts	11.58	4.68
10	alt.sex.fetish	9.82	3.97
11	alt.sex.pictures	9.78	3.96
12	misc	9.57	3.87
13	rec.games	7.75	3.13
14	comp.sys	6.85	2.77
15	rec.music	5.22	2.11
16	comp.os	4.51	1.83
17	comp.lang	4.15	1.68
18	alt.sex.pictures.female	4.09	1.65
19	rec.sport	3.92	1.59
20	news	3.84	1.55

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	69954	85.96
2	alt.sex	35502	43.63
3	rec	33391	41.03
4	comp	18771	23.07
5	misc	10153	12.48
6	alt.binaries	8031	9.87
7	alt.sex.fetish	6902	8.48
8	alt.binaries.pictures	6730	8.27
9	rec.arts	6277	7.71
10	comp.sys	5742	7.06
11	alt.fan	5318	6.54
12	us	4979	6.12
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4899	6.02
14	misc.jobs	4756	5.85
15	us.jobs	4734	5.82
16	biz	4336	5.33
17	rec.games	4170	5.13
18	rec.music	3954	4.86
19	soc	3782	4.65
20	comp.os	3731	4.59

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/01	215.21	100.00			70829	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	12.49	5.80			4235	5.98
01	5.61	2.61			1870	2.64
02	7.50	3.49			1730	2.44
03	8.93	4.15			1960	2.77
04	5.71	2.65			1698	2.40
05	5.18	2.41			1623	2.29
06	4.47	2.08			1580	2.23
07	4.46	2.07			1706	2.41
08	5.22	2.43			2139	3.02
09	7.78	3.61			1710	2.41
10	2.88	1.34			1106	1.56
11	4.56	2.12			1838	2.59
12	12.63	5.87			4197	5.93
13	17.20	7.99			5415	7.65
14	14.41	6.70			4995	7.05
15	17.09	7.94			5561	7.85
16	13.99	6.50			4463	6.30
17	16.62	7.72			5720	8.08
18	17.95	8.34			6299	8.89
19	15.65	7.27			5781	8.16
20	14.88	6.91			5203	7.35

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	215.21	100.00			70829	100.00