Usenet Statistics (1997/02/04 - 1997/02/04)

Average daily rate: 289.35 Mb, 104668 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	209.82	72.51
2	uunet	54.58	18.86
3	news-out.internetmci.com	24.94	8.62
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.01
5	ip-32.sb.net	0.00	0.00
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	76789	73.36
2	uunet	26490	25.31
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1376	1.31
4	newsmaster	11	0.01
5	ip-32.sb.net	1	0.00
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	3.99	1.38
2	misc.jobs.offered	3.93	1.36
3	comp.fonts	3.53	1.22
4	alt.binaries.fonts	3.34	1.15
5	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	3.10	1.07
6	alt.sex.pictures.female	3.09	1.07
7	us.jobs.offered	2.94	1.02
8	biz.jobs.offered	2.94	1.02
9	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.84	0.98
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.80	0.97
11	alt.sex.pictures	2.49	0.86
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.29	0.79
13	alt.sex.pictures.male	2.16	0.75
14	comp.jobs.offered	2.08	0.72
15	misc.jobs.contract	2.07	0.72
16	us.jobs.contract	1.68	0.58
17	alt.sex.fetish.fa	1.66	0.57
18	ba.jobs.offered	1.59	0.55
19	alt.sex.anal	1.55	0.54
20	alt.sex.fat	1.45	0.50

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	6906	6.60
2	biz.jobs.offered	6720	6.42
3	us.jobs.offered	6133	5.86
4	comp.jobs.offered	5719	5.46
5	misc.jobs.contract	4760	4.55
6	us.jobs.contract	4249	4.06
7	ba.jobs.offered	3004	2.87
8	prg.jobs	1756	1.68
9	alt.jobs	1392	1.33
10	comp.jobs	1301	1.24
11	us.jobs	1141	1.09
12	news.newusers.questions	930	0.89
13	ba.jobs.contract	872	0.83
14	alt.sex	738	0.71
15	tx.jobs	736	0.70
16	alt.sex.pictures	730	0.70
17	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	722	0.69
18	alt.sex.pictures.female	701	0.67
19	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	662	0.63
20	talk.politics.misc	659	0.63

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	117.38	40.57
2	rec	58.05	20.06
3	alt.binaries	52.03	17.98
4	alt.sex	46.66	16.13
5	alt.binaries.pictures	34.35	11.87
6	comp	32.11	11.10
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	26.98	9.32
8	misc	14.79	5.11
9	rec.arts	11.37	3.93
10	rec.games	9.36	3.24
11	alt.sex.pictures	8.59	2.97
12	alt.sex.fetish	8.59	2.97
13	comp.sys	8.17	2.82
14	alt.fan	6.97	2.41
15	misc.jobs	6.88	2.38
16	us	6.16	2.13
17	us.jobs	6.04	2.09
18	biz	5.92	2.05
19	rec.music	5.90	2.04
20	rec.sport	5.09	1.76

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	83022	79.32
2	alt.sex	41499	39.65
3	rec	38969	37.23
4	comp	27313	26.10
5	misc	19428	18.56
6	misc.jobs	12965	12.39
7	us	12805	12.23
8	us.jobs	12498	11.94
9	alt.binaries	10217	9.76
10	biz	9801	9.36
11	alt.binaries.pictures	8556	8.17
12	alt.sex.fetish	7729	7.38
13	comp.jobs	7107	6.79
14	misc.jobs.offered	7077	6.76
15	rec.arts	6916	6.61
16	biz.jobs	6885	6.58
17	biz.jobs.offered	6726	6.43
18	comp.sys	6611	6.32
19	us.jobs.offered	6264	5.98
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	5924	5.66

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/04	289.34	100.00			104662	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	13.77	4.76			5138	4.91
01	6.07	2.10			2148	2.05
02	6.33	2.19			2208	2.11
03	7.08	2.45			2314	2.21
04	10.42	3.60			2688	2.57
05	17.58	6.07			5706	5.45
06	13.04	4.51			4918	4.70
07	13.67	4.72			5446	5.20
08	12.31	4.25			4832	4.62
09	11.84	4.09			4373	4.18
10	12.73	4.40			4135	3.95
11	12.35	4.27			4504	4.30
12	9.87	3.41			3987	3.81
13	13.49	4.66			4684	4.48
14	10.54	3.64			4268	4.08
15	9.27	3.21			4073	3.89
16	10.50	3.63			4593	4.39
17	10.27	3.55			4343	4.15
18	9.45	3.27			4082	3.90
19	10.80	3.73			4843	4.63
20	12.89	4.46			4689	4.48
21	16.73	5.78			5253	5.02
22	20.22	6.99			5987	5.72
23	18.09	6.25			5450	5.21

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Tuesday	289.34	100.00			104662	100.00