Usenet Statistics (1997/02/05 - 1997/02/05)

Average daily rate: 305.96 Mb, 111258 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	220.99	72.23
2	uunet	58.55	19.14
3	news-out.internetmci.com	26.40	8.63
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.01
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	83239	74.82
2	uunet	26504	23.82
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1505	1.35
4	newsmaster	9	0.01
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.sex.fetish.fa	6.42	2.10
2	alt.sex.pictures.female	4.09	1.34
3	alt.sex.exhibitionism	3.50	1.15
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.66	0.87
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.66	0.87
6	alt.sex.pictures	2.50	0.82
7	misc.jobs.offered	2.25	0.74
8	alt.sex.fetish.watersports	2.16	0.71
9	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2.15	0.70
10	us.jobs.offered	2.14	0.70
11	alt.sex.pictures.male	2.12	0.69
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	2.01	0.66
13	alt.sex.stories	1.98	0.65
14	alt.binaries.games	1.89	0.62
15	de.alt.binaries.pictures.female	1.87	0.61
16	ba.jobs.offered	1.86	0.61
17	tw.bbs.comp.hacker	1.84	0.60
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1.68	0.55
19	alt.sex.voyeurism	1.60	0.52
20	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	1.44	0.47

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	4178	3.76
2	misc.jobs.offered	3785	3.40
3	ba.jobs.offered	2923	2.63
4	biz.jobs.offered	2752	2.47
5	comp.jobs.offered	1812	1.63
6	misc.jobs.contract	1574	1.41
7	us.jobs.contract	1188	1.07
8	news.newusers.questions	1173	1.05
9	prg.jobs	1107	1.00
10	alt.jobs	993	0.89
11	us.jobs	940	0.84
12	comp.jobs	891	0.80
13	alt.sex.exhibitionism	818	0.74
14	talk.politics.misc	789	0.71
15	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	779	0.70
16	alt.sex.pictures	765	0.69
17	alt.sex.pictures.female	755	0.68
18	alt.sex	742	0.67
19	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	705	0.63
20	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	694	0.62

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	130.35	42.60
2	rec	65.84	21.52
3	alt.binaries	52.74	17.24
4	alt.sex	52.55	17.18
5	alt.binaries.pictures	39.20	12.81
6	comp	31.36	10.25
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	29.18	9.54
8	alt.sex.fetish	15.28	4.99
9	rec.arts	13.59	4.44
10	misc	13.19	4.31
11	rec.games	9.96	3.26
12	alt.fan	9.93	3.24
13	alt.sex.pictures	9.81	3.21
14	comp.sys	9.73	3.18
15	rec.music	7.75	2.53
16	alt.sex.fetish.fa	6.42	2.10
17	comp.os	6.11	2.00
18	rec.sport	5.54	1.81
19	news	4.83	1.58
20	soc	4.52	1.48

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	100777	90.58
2	alt.sex	52087	46.82
3	rec	44630	40.11
4	comp	26980	24.25
5	misc	14556	13.08
6	alt.binaries	10196	9.16
7	alt.sex.fetish	10030	9.02
8	rec.arts	8228	7.40
9	alt.binaries.pictures	8188	7.36
10	comp.sys	8036	7.22
11	us	7607	6.84
12	us.jobs	7318	6.58
13	alt.fan	6962	6.26
14	misc.jobs	6784	6.10
15	biz	5755	5.17
16	rec.games	5649	5.08
17	rec.music	5626	5.06
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	5592	5.03
19	comp.os	5489	4.93
20	alt.politics	5274	4.74

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/05	305.95	100.00			111256	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	19.78	6.46			6357	5.71
01	7.63	2.49			1971	1.77
02	6.92	2.26			1963	1.76
03	10.43	3.41			3964	3.56
04	7.64	2.50			2770	2.49
05	9.36	3.06			3491	3.14
06	12.79	4.18			5457	4.90
07	12.06	3.94			5060	4.55
08	16.17	5.29			5489	4.93
09	13.34	4.36			5075	4.56
10	12.95	4.23			5248	4.72
11	11.19	3.66			4627	4.16
12	9.85	3.22			3911	3.52
13	12.95	4.23			4562	4.10
14	13.31	4.35			4768	4.29
15	13.53	4.42			5305	4.77
16	12.27	4.01			4757	4.28
17	10.73	3.51			4209	3.78
18	10.88	3.56			4482	4.03
19	14.12	4.62			5281	4.75
20	18.21	5.95			6221	5.59
21	23.63	7.72			5995	5.39
22	13.38	4.37			5090	4.58
23	12.83	4.19			5203	4.68

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	305.95	100.00			111256	100.00