Usenet Statistics (1997/02/03 - 1997/02/03)

Average daily rate: 284.04 Mb, 109879 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	200.66	70.64
2	uunet	52.27	18.40
3	news-out.internetmci.com	28.94	10.19
4	newsmaster	2.18	0.77
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	83589	76.07
2	uunet	24655	22.44
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1610	1.47
4	newsmaster	24	0.02
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	5.39	1.90
2	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	4.00	1.41
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.14	1.11
4	us.jobs.offered	2.90	1.02
5	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.86	1.01
6	alt.sex.pictures	2.66	0.94
7	alt.binaries.games	2.66	0.94
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.64	0.93
9	biz.jobs.offered	2.61	0.92
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	2.21	0.78
11	alt.mag.penthouse	2.16	0.76
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	1.96	0.69
13	alt.sex.exhibitionism	1.88	0.66
14	ba.jobs.offered	1.63	0.57
15	news.newusers.questions	1.52	0.53
16	rec.arts.comics.marketplace	1.48	0.52
17	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	1.48	0.52
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.voyeurism	1.47	0.52
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	1.39	0.49
20	alt.sex.pictures.male	1.29	0.45

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	7419	6.75
2	us.jobs.offered	5621	5.12
3	biz.jobs.offered	3693	3.36
4	ba.jobs.offered	2717	2.47
5	misc.jobs.contract	2489	2.27
6	us.jobs.contract	1955	1.78
7	comp.jobs.offered	1819	1.66
8	prg.jobs	1722	1.57
9	comp.jobs	1521	1.38
10	us.jobs	1314	1.20
11	alt.jobs	1287	1.17
12	news.newusers.questions	1103	1.00
13	tx.jobs	961	0.87
14	alt.sex.pictures	800	0.73
15	us.jobs.misc	787	0.72
16	misc.jobs	745	0.68
17	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	736	0.67
18	talk.politics.misc	734	0.67
19	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	703	0.64
20	alt.sex.pictures.female	686	0.62

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	106.59	37.53
2	rec	67.56	23.79
3	alt.binaries	48.94	17.23
4	alt.binaries.pictures	35.71	12.57
5	alt.sex	33.24	11.70
6	comp	31.18	10.98
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	29.45	10.37
8	misc	16.66	5.87
9	rec.arts	13.16	4.63
10	rec.games	10.75	3.78
11	comp.sys	9.65	3.40
12	alt.fan	8.07	2.84
13	alt.sex.pictures	7.99	2.81
14	misc.jobs	7.55	2.66
15	rec.music	7.22	2.54
16	comp.os	5.84	2.06
17	rec.sport	5.60	1.97
18	alt.sex.fetish	5.58	1.96
19	biz	5.57	1.96
20	us	5.54	1.95

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	90825	82.66
2	alt.sex	43960	40.01
3	rec	43870	39.93
4	comp	27538	25.06
5	misc	18845	17.15
6	misc.jobs	11524	10.49
7	us	10369	9.44
8	alt.binaries	10290	9.37
9	us.jobs	10074	9.17
10	alt.binaries.pictures	8483	7.72
11	comp.sys	7959	7.24
12	rec.arts	7814	7.11
13	misc.jobs.offered	7646	6.96
14	alt.sex.fetish	7594	6.91
15	biz	6558	5.97
16	alt.fan	6525	5.94
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	6183	5.63
18	rec.games	5736	5.22
19	us.jobs.offered	5708	5.19
20	comp.os	5358	4.88

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/03	284.04	100.00			109877	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	15.30	5.39			5951	5.42
01	6.16	2.17			2431	2.21
02	5.17	1.82			1830	1.67
03	7.69	2.71			3222	2.93
04	8.77	3.09			3320	3.02
05	9.67	3.41			3498	3.18
06	11.07	3.90			4937	4.49
07	14.44	5.08			5756	5.24
08	11.23	3.95			4852	4.42
09	13.45	4.73			5477	4.98
10	13.35	4.70			5252	4.78
11	15.07	5.31			5751	5.23
12	11.04	3.89			4607	4.19
13	9.47	3.33			4002	3.64
14	14.77	5.20			5231	4.76
15	12.20	4.30			5109	4.65
16	14.52	5.11			5109	4.65
17	14.73	5.19			5614	5.11
18	12.92	4.55			4379	3.99
19	10.87	3.83			4258	3.88
20	13.14	4.63			3919	3.57
21	12.74	4.49			4943	4.50
22	12.61	4.44			5067	4.61
23	13.65	4.81			5362	4.88

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Monday	284.04	100.00			109877	100.00