Usenet Statistics (1997/02/12 - 1997/02/12)

Average daily rate: 219.65 Mb, 89320 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	157.73	71.81
2	uunet	44.06	20.06
3	news-out.internetmci.com	17.82	8.11
4	newsmaster	0.04	0.02
5	jwwalker	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	65989	73.88
2	uunet	21752	24.35
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1559	1.75
4	newsmaster	19	0.02
5	jwwalker	1	0.00
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	3.27	1.49
2	us.jobs.offered	2.96	1.35
3	biz.jobs.offered	2.86	1.30
4	alt.binaries.mac.applications	2.75	1.25
5	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.39	1.09
6	comp.jobs.offered	2.32	1.05
7	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2.23	1.02
8	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.16	0.98
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.00	0.91
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.94	0.88
11	alt.sex.stories	1.88	0.85
12	ba.jobs.offered	1.85	0.84
13	alt.sex.pictures	1.52	0.69
14	misc.jobs.contract	1.47	0.67
15	us.jobs.contract	1.30	0.59
16	news.newusers.questions	1.03	0.47
17	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	0.98	0.45
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.oral	0.97	0.44
19	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	0.91	0.42
20	alt.sex.bestiality.pictures	0.91	0.41

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	biz.jobs.offered	7099	7.95
2	misc.jobs.offered	6659	7.46
3	us.jobs.offered	6631	7.42
4	comp.jobs.offered	6207	6.95
5	misc.jobs.contract	3748	4.20
6	us.jobs.contract	3472	3.89
7	ba.jobs.offered	3203	3.59
8	prg.jobs	1273	1.43
9	alt.jobs	1100	1.23
10	comp.jobs	1073	1.20
11	us.jobs	834	0.93
12	tx.jobs	788	0.88
13	news.newusers.questions	781	0.87
14	la.jobs	714	0.80
15	alt.sex	631	0.71
16	nj.jobs	620	0.69
17	talk.politics.misc	601	0.67
18	alt.sex.pictures.female	597	0.67
19	alt.sex.exhibitionism	594	0.67
20	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	563	0.63

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	82.17	37.41
2	rec	50.82	23.14
3	alt.binaries	34.35	15.64
4	alt.sex	32.07	14.60
5	alt.binaries.pictures	24.96	11.36
6	comp	23.44	10.67
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	18.44	8.40
8	misc	11.73	5.34
9	rec.arts	10.42	4.74
10	rec.games	8.40	3.83
11	comp.sys	6.48	2.95
12	alt.fan	6.46	2.94
13	alt.sex.fetish	6.28	2.86
14	biz	5.78	2.63
15	misc.jobs	5.28	2.41
16	rec.music	5.07	2.31
17	us	5.03	2.29
18	us.jobs	4.93	2.24
19	alt.sex.pictures	4.68	2.13
20	microsoft	4.66	2.12

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	74673	83.60
2	alt.sex	42265	47.32
3	rec	33142	37.11
4	comp	24197	27.09
5	misc	17000	19.03
6	us	11726	13.13
7	us.jobs	11598	12.99
8	misc.jobs	11389	12.75
9	biz	9854	11.03
10	alt.sex.fetish	8135	9.11
11	biz.jobs	7402	8.29
12	comp.jobs	7356	8.24
13	biz.jobs.offered	7121	7.97
14	alt.binaries	7027	7.87
15	misc.jobs.offered	6727	7.53
16	us.jobs.offered	6685	7.48
17	comp.jobs.offered	6207	6.95
18	rec.arts	5940	6.65
19	alt.binaries.pictures	5837	6.54
20	comp.sys	5261	5.89

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/12	219.64	100.00			89316	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	12.01	5.47			5035	5.64
01	4.46	2.03			1826	2.04
02	3.49	1.59			1397	1.56
03	6.13	2.79			2712	3.04
04	8.75	3.98			3428	3.84
05	8.56	3.90			3515	3.94
06	6.96	3.17			3354	3.76
07	12.14	5.53			5093	5.70
08	11.61	5.28			4979	5.57
09	10.67	4.86			4501	5.04
10	10.42	4.75			4426	4.96
11	10.07	4.58			4139	4.63
12	9.21	4.19			3405	3.81
13	8.63	3.93			3092	3.46
14	8.57	3.90			3452	3.86
15	9.22	4.20			3325	3.72
16	10.44	4.75			4184	4.68
17	11.30	5.14			4239	4.75
18	9.62	4.38			3782	4.23
19	13.44	6.12			4805	5.38
20	9.25	4.21			4117	4.61
21	7.77	3.54			3546	3.97
22	9.63	4.38			3890	4.36
23	7.29	3.32			3074	3.44

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	219.64	100.00			89316	100.00