Usenet Statistics (1997/02/09 - 1997/02/09)

Average daily rate: 345.82 Mb, 117281 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	254.14	73.49
2	uunet	60.69	17.55
3	news-out.internetmci.com	30.97	8.96
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
5	ip-67.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	89904	76.66
2	uunet	25993	22.16
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1373	1.17
4	newsmaster	10	0.01
5	ip-67.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.sex.pictures.female	12.39	3.58
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	5.04	1.46
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.69	1.36
4	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	4.42	1.28
5	alt.sex.pictures	4.38	1.27
6	de.alt.binaries.pictures.female	4.09	1.18
7	alt.sex.stories	3.86	1.12
8	alt.binaries.games	2.89	0.84
9	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.68	0.77
10	misc.jobs.offered	2.31	0.67
11	alt.sex.fetish.fa	2.08	0.60
12	alt.sex.pictures.male	1.88	0.54
13	us.jobs.offered	1.76	0.51
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish	1.69	0.49
15	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.64	0.48
16	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.59	0.46
17	news.newusers.questions	1.52	0.44
18	alt.sex.anal	1.45	0.42
19	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.45	0.42
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstars	1.40	0.41

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	3869	3.30
2	us.jobs.offered	3432	2.93
3	biz.jobs.offered	1909	1.63
4	ba.jobs.offered	1860	1.59
5	misc.jobs.contract	1381	1.18
6	news.newusers.questions	1247	1.06
7	us.jobs.contract	1213	1.03
8	alt.sex.pictures.female	1209	1.03
9	comp.jobs.offered	1126	0.96
10	prg.jobs	1044	0.89
11	alt.sex.pictures	982	0.84
12	alt.jobs	965	0.82
13	alt.sex.exhibitionism	948	0.81
14	us.jobs	947	0.81
15	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	803	0.68
16	talk.politics.misc	775	0.66
17	comp.jobs	751	0.64
18	alt.sex	740	0.63
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	722	0.62
20	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	688	0.59

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	163.26	47.21
2	rec	70.65	20.43
3	alt.binaries	70.01	20.24
4	alt.sex	68.47	19.80
5	alt.binaries.pictures	52.75	15.25
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	39.05	11.29
7	comp	29.50	8.53
8	alt.sex.pictures	19.64	5.68
9	rec.arts	14.06	4.07
10	misc	12.76	3.69
11	alt.sex.pictures.female	12.39	3.58
12	rec.games	11.44	3.31
13	alt.sex.fetish	10.79	3.12
14	alt.fan	10.20	2.95
15	comp.sys	9.68	2.80
16	rec.music	7.64	2.21
17	de	7.36	2.13
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	6.00	1.74
19	comp.os	6.00	1.74
20	rec.sport	5.81	1.68

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	108522	92.53
2	alt.sex	55485	47.31
3	rec	47990	40.92
4	comp	25146	21.44
5	alt.binaries	15849	13.51
6	misc	14260	12.16
7	alt.binaries.pictures	12978	11.07
8	alt.sex.fetish	10728	9.15
9	rec.arts	8878	7.57
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	8780	7.49
11	comp.sys	8133	6.93
12	alt.fan	6947	5.92
13	us	6609	5.64
14	us.jobs	6395	5.45
15	rec.games	6331	5.40
16	misc.jobs	6293	5.37
17	rec.music	5571	4.75
18	soc	5502	4.69
19	comp.os	5356	4.57
20	biz	5244	4.47

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/09	345.81	100.00			117280	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	13.42	3.88			4820	4.11
01	8.90	2.57			2762	2.36
02	7.88	2.28			2032	1.73
03	21.12	6.11			4712	4.02
04	13.14	3.80			4290	3.66
05	11.84	3.42			3773	3.22
06	10.04	2.90			4239	3.61
07	14.57	4.21			5586	4.76
08	12.82	3.71			5348	4.56
09	14.66	4.24			4741	4.04
10	13.91	4.02			5547	4.73
11	12.27	3.55			5201	4.43
12	14.46	4.18			4971	4.24
13	14.25	4.12			5124	4.37
14	15.56	4.50			5197	4.43
15	14.76	4.27			5240	4.47
16	12.24	3.54			4332	3.69
17	14.07	4.07			5323	4.54
18	17.23	4.98			5806	4.95
19	15.17	4.39			5756	4.91
20	14.76	4.27			5467	4.66
21	17.01	4.92			6134	5.23
22	21.34	6.17			4894	4.17
23	20.40	5.90			5985	5.10

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	345.81	100.00			117280	100.00