Usenet Statistics (1997/02/07 - 1997/02/07)

Average daily rate: 263.33 Mb, 103006 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	190.72	72.42
2	uunet	49.02	18.61
3	news-out.internetmci.com	23.45	8.90
4	newsmaster	0.15	0.06
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	78629	76.34
2	uunet	23278	22.60
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1073	1.04
4	newsmaster	25	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	6.16	2.34
2	biz.jobs.offered	3.79	1.44
3	us.jobs.offered	3.70	1.40
4	alt.binaries.mac.applications	2.73	1.04
5	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.58	0.98
6	comp.jobs.offered	2.46	0.94
7	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.41	0.91
8	misc.jobs.contract	2.26	0.86
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.90	0.72
10	ba.jobs.offered	1.88	0.71
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1.84	0.70
12	alt.binaries.games	1.77	0.67
13	alt.sex.pictures	1.66	0.63
14	us.jobs.contract	1.66	0.63
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1.41	0.53
16	news.newusers.questions	1.36	0.51
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	1.25	0.47
18	us.jobs	1.22	0.46
19	alt.sex.stories	1.18	0.45
20	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	1.17	0.45

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	9256	8.99
2	biz.jobs.offered	8071	7.84
3	us.jobs.offered	7962	7.73
4	comp.jobs.offered	6747	6.55
5	misc.jobs.contract	5006	4.86
6	us.jobs.contract	4440	4.31
7	ba.jobs.offered	3207	3.11
8	prg.jobs	1629	1.58
9	us.jobs	1482	1.44
10	alt.jobs	1348	1.31
11	comp.jobs	1032	1.00
12	tx.jobs	998	0.97
13	news.newusers.questions	900	0.87
14	nj.jobs	739	0.72
15	alt.sex	724	0.70
16	talk.politics.misc	702	0.68
17	ne.jobs.contract	690	0.67
18	fl.jobs	676	0.66
19	dfw.jobs	647	0.63
20	alt.sex.pictures	638	0.62

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	97.18	36.90
2	rec	57.04	21.66
3	alt.binaries	47.58	18.07
4	alt.binaries.pictures	33.65	12.78
5	alt.sex	29.50	11.20
6	comp	28.93	10.98
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	23.91	9.08
8	misc	16.87	6.41
9	rec.arts	11.11	4.22
10	misc.jobs	9.24	3.51
11	rec.games	9.19	3.49
12	alt.fan	8.37	3.18
13	comp.sys	8.19	3.11
14	us	7.42	2.82
15	us.jobs	7.21	2.74
16	biz	6.74	2.56
17	misc.jobs.offered	6.25	2.37
18	rec.music	5.94	2.25
19	alt.sex.pictures	5.60	2.13
20	comp.os	4.75	1.80

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	77211	74.96
2	rec	38932	37.80
3	alt.sex	36536	35.47
4	comp	28858	28.02
5	misc	21757	21.12
6	misc.jobs	15302	14.86
7	us	15274	14.83
8	us.jobs	14915	14.48
9	biz	11018	10.70
10	misc.jobs.offered	9416	9.14
11	alt.binaries	9127	8.86
12	biz.jobs	8495	8.25
13	biz.jobs.offered	8096	7.86
14	us.jobs.offered	8078	7.84
15	comp.jobs	7934	7.70
16	alt.binaries.pictures	7557	7.34
17	rec.arts	7274	7.06
18	comp.sys	7020	6.82
19	comp.jobs.offered	6748	6.55
20	alt.fan	5986	5.81

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/07	263.33	100.00			103005	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	17.03	6.47			6393	6.21
01	5.52	2.10			2224	2.16
02	6.03	2.29			2047	1.99
03	9.58	3.64			4078	3.96
04	11.82	4.49			4711	4.57
05	9.32	3.54			3722	3.61
06	12.21	4.64			5222	5.07
07	13.95	5.30			5702	5.54
08	13.90	5.28			5466	5.31
09	14.20	5.39			5483	5.32
10	12.50	4.75			4497	4.37
11	10.77	4.09			4212	4.09
12	9.59	3.64			3743	3.63
13	11.93	4.53			4441	4.31
14	10.33	3.92			3703	3.59
15	9.87	3.75			4085	3.97
16	10.59	4.02			3917	3.80
17	11.94	4.53			4311	4.19
18	9.68	3.68			4049	3.93
19	11.45	4.35			4698	4.56
20	10.10	3.84			4142	4.02
21	9.77	3.71			3834	3.72
22	9.99	3.79			4132	4.01
23	11.28	4.28			4193	4.07

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Friday	263.33	100.00			103005	100.00