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

Average daily rate: 350.66 Mb, 131811 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	250.55	71.45
2	uunet	67.56	19.27
3	news-out.internetmci.com	32.54	9.28
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	news.webspan.net	96717	73.38
2	uunet	32872	24.94
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2208	1.68
4	newsmaster	12	0.01
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	6.50	1.85
2	alt.sex.pictures.female	5.11	1.46
3	misc.jobs.offered	3.92	1.12
4	comp.mail.maps	3.74	1.07
5	alt.sex.pictures	3.21	0.92
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.73	0.78
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.66	0.76
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	2.49	0.71
9	news.newusers.questions	2.36	0.67
10	alt.amazon-women.admirers	2.32	0.66
11	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	2.30	0.66
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	2.08	0.59
13	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	2.08	0.59
14	alt.sex.fetish.smoking	2.06	0.59
15	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	2.02	0.58
16	alt.sex.pictures.misc	2.00	0.57
17	ba.jobs.offered	1.96	0.56
18	rec.collecting.sport.football	1.93	0.55
19	rec.collecting.sport.hockey	1.84	0.52
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	1.78	0.51

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	3390	2.57
2	us.jobs.offered	2885	2.19
3	ba.jobs.offered	2478	1.88
4	biz.jobs.offered	1924	1.46
5	news.newusers.questions	1820	1.38
6	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	1550	1.18
7	comp.jobs.offered	1306	0.99
8	rec.arts.sf.starwars.collecting	1087	0.83
9	misc.jobs.contract	1070	0.81
10	talk.politics.misc	1062	0.81
11	rec.collecting.sport.football	1059	0.80
12	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1004	0.76
13	rec.collecting.sport.hockey	915	0.69
14	rec.collecting.sport.basketball	874	0.66
15	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	869	0.66
16	prg.jobs	846	0.64
17	us.jobs.contract	795	0.60
18	comp.jobs	777	0.59
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	744	0.57
20	rec.sport.pro-wrestling	716	0.54

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	130.40	37.19
2	rec	98.77	28.17
3	alt.sex	56.67	16.16
4	alt.binaries	46.49	13.26
5	comp	37.07	10.57
6	alt.binaries.pictures	35.83	10.22
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	27.00	7.70
8	rec.arts	18.42	5.25
9	rec.games	17.37	4.95
10	misc	15.67	4.47
11	alt.sex.pictures	12.93	3.69
12	alt.sex.fetish	11.75	3.35
13	comp.sys	10.73	3.06
14	alt.fan	10.19	2.91
15	rec.collecting	9.30	2.65
16	rec.music	8.59	2.45
17	rec.collecting.sport	7.32	2.09
18	comp.os	7.20	2.05
19	rec.sport	6.74	1.92
20	news	6.64	1.89

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	72109	54.71
2	rec	64633	49.03
3	comp	29255	22.19
4	alt.sex	21728	16.48
5	misc	13914	10.56
6	rec.arts	12170	9.23
7	alt.binaries	9928	7.53
8	rec.games	9199	6.98
9	comp.sys	9117	6.92
10	alt.binaries.pictures	8312	6.31
11	alt.fan	7236	5.49
12	comp.os	6578	4.99
13	rec.music	6324	4.80
14	alt.politics	5943	4.51
15	talk	5940	4.51
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	5742	4.36
17	soc	5691	4.32
18	us	5467	4.15
19	misc.jobs	5325	4.04
20	rec.collecting	5205	3.95

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/02	137.95	100.00			51855	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
14	1.49	1.08			781	1.51
15	12.58	9.12			5411	10.43
16	14.73	10.68			5680	10.95
17	15.84	11.48			6289	12.13
18	11.43	8.29			4532	8.74
19	16.79	12.17			5931	11.44
20	16.54	11.99			6437	12.41
21	16.40	11.89			5583	10.77
22	17.45	12.65			5513	10.63
23	14.69	10.65			5698	10.99

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	137.95	100.00			51855	100.00