Usenet Statistics (1997/02/08 - 1997/02/08)

Average daily rate: 216.94 Mb, 77576 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	157.07	72.40
2	uunet	40.99	18.89
3	news-out.internetmci.com	18.87	8.70
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	56618	72.98
2	uunet	19600	25.27
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1345	1.73
4	newsmaster	12	0.02
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.54	1.17
2	alt.sex.fetish.fa	2.53	1.17
3	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.30	1.06
4	alt.binaries.erotica.female.plumpers	2.27	1.05
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.big-folks	2.24	1.03
6	alt.sex.stories	1.97	0.91
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1.94	0.89
8	misc.jobs.offered	1.91	0.88
9	alt.sex.pictures	1.65	0.76
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	1.64	0.75
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.54	0.71
12	biz.jobs.offered	1.53	0.70
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	1.50	0.69
14	news.newusers.questions	1.43	0.66
15	us.jobs.offered	1.42	0.66
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1.31	0.61
17	alt.sex.breast	1.30	0.60
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.exhibitionism	1.21	0.56
19	alt.binaries.games	1.20	0.55
20	alt.sex	1.19	0.55

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	biz.jobs.offered	3332	4.30
2	misc.jobs.offered	3172	4.09
3	us.jobs.offered	2806	3.62
4	comp.jobs.offered	2649	3.41
5	prg.jobs	1420	1.83
6	misc.jobs.contract	1377	1.78
7	ba.jobs.offered	1275	1.64
8	comp.jobs	1272	1.64
9	us.jobs.contract	1010	1.30
10	news.newusers.questions	896	1.16
11	alt.sex.exhibitionism	736	0.95
12	us.jobs	700	0.90
13	misc.jobs	692	0.89
14	alt.jobs	661	0.85
15	alt.sex.pictures.female	624	0.80
16	alt.sex.pictures	596	0.77
17	alt.sex	596	0.77
18	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	522	0.67
19	talk.politics.misc	508	0.65
20	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	503	0.65

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	96.38	44.43
2	rec	46.63	21.50
3	alt.binaries	41.84	19.29
4	alt.sex	37.28	17.18
5	alt.binaries.pictures	31.69	14.61
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	23.44	10.80
7	comp	21.28	9.81
8	rec.arts	9.47	4.36
9	misc	9.41	4.34
10	alt.sex.fetish	8.33	3.84
11	rec.games	7.35	3.39
12	comp.sys	6.46	2.98
13	alt.fan	5.95	2.74
14	alt.sex.pictures	5.65	2.60
15	rec.music	5.17	2.38
16	alt.binaries.erotica	4.05	1.87
17	news	3.93	1.81
18	comp.os	3.88	1.79
19	rec.collecting	3.42	1.58
20	rec.sport	3.40	1.57

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	64548	83.21
2	rec	31718	40.89
3	alt.sex	29129	37.55
4	comp	19904	25.66
5	misc	11283	14.55
6	alt.binaries	9303	11.99
7	alt.binaries.pictures	7752	9.99
8	rec.arts	6051	7.80
9	misc.jobs	5746	7.41
10	comp.sys	5478	7.06
11	biz	5395	6.95
12	us	5177	6.67
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	5111	6.59
14	alt.sex.fetish	5074	6.54
15	us.jobs	4917	6.34
16	alt.fan	4705	6.07
17	rec.games	4197	5.41
18	comp.jobs	3981	5.13
19	soc	3770	4.86
20	rec.music	3591	4.63

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/08	216.93	100.00			77571	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	10.49	4.83			3950	5.09
01	4.91	2.26			1578	2.03
02	2.54	1.17			1005	1.30
03	6.58	3.04			1978	2.55
04	5.52	2.54			1814	2.34
05	6.42	2.96			1773	2.29
06	6.06	2.79			2270	2.93
07	4.61	2.12			2066	2.66
08	4.26	1.96			1460	1.88
09	1.90	0.88			802	1.03
10	7.90	3.64			2215	2.86
11	7.50	3.46			2740	3.53
12	4.99	2.30			1936	2.50
13	4.00	1.84			1682	2.17
14	10.36	4.77			4539	5.85
15	11.39	5.25			4747	6.12
16	8.90	4.10			3574	4.61
17	14.98	6.90			5394	6.95
18	12.26	5.65			5355	6.90
19	13.82	6.37			5434	7.01
20	14.54	6.70			5418	6.98
21	15.15	6.98			4910	6.33
22	22.17	10.22			5497	7.09
23	15.69	7.23			5434	7.01

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	216.93	100.00			77571	100.00