Usenet Statistics (1997/02/16 - 1997/02/16)

Average daily rate: 350.17 Mb, 128555 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	257.98	73.67
2	uunet	58.98	16.84
3	news-out.internetmci.com	33.20	9.48
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.01
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	102652	79.85
2	uunet	24593	19.13
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1301	1.01
4	newsmaster	8	0.01
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	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	5.52	1.58
2	alt.sex.pictures.male	4.90	1.40
3	alt.sex.stories	3.81	1.09
4	alt.sex.exhibitionism	3.49	1.00
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	3.16	0.90
6	alt.binaries.games	3.09	0.88
7	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	3.06	0.87
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	3.03	0.87
9	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.76	0.79
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.66	0.76
11	alt.sex.fetish.smoking	1.94	0.55
12	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.82	0.52
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.male	1.81	0.52
14	alt.sex.pictures	1.81	0.52
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.62	0.46
16	news.newusers.questions	1.53	0.44
17	alt.sex.fetish.feet	1.50	0.43
18	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.44	0.41
19	alt.binaries.erotica	1.42	0.41
20	rec.arts.comics.marketplace	1.36	0.39

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	1967	1.53
2	us.jobs.offered	1803	1.40
3	biz.jobs.offered	1474	1.15
4	news.newusers.questions	1378	1.07
5	alt.sex	1108	0.86
6	alt.sex.exhibitionism	1024	0.80
7	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	974	0.76
8	alt.sex.pictures.female	936	0.73
9	alt.sex.pictures	911	0.71
10	ba.jobs.offered	827	0.64
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	825	0.64
12	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	822	0.64
13	talk.politics.misc	795	0.62
14	prg.jobs	775	0.60
15	rec.collecting.sport.basketball	771	0.60
16	alt.sex.masturbation	768	0.60
17	comp.jobs.offered	724	0.56
18	control	719	0.56
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	719	0.56
20	rec.guns	706	0.55

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	166.08	47.43
2	rec	73.42	20.97
3	alt.binaries	72.53	20.71
4	alt.sex	66.62	19.02
5	alt.binaries.pictures	46.19	13.19
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	38.55	11.01
7	comp	28.13	8.03
8	rec.arts	13.30	3.80
9	misc	13.17	3.76
10	rec.games	12.46	3.56
11	alt.sex.fetish	12.04	3.44
12	alt.sex.pictures	10.59	3.02
13	alt.fan	9.92	2.83
14	comp.sys	9.17	2.62
15	alt.binaries.warez	7.20	2.06
16	rec.music	7.09	2.03
17	rec.collecting	6.74	1.92
18	microsoft	6.53	1.87
19	microsoft.public	6.48	1.85
20	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.37	1.82

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	112454	87.48
2	alt.sex	58546	45.54
3	rec	50603	39.36
4	comp	22948	17.85
5	alt.binaries	16374	12.74
6	alt.binaries.pictures	13424	10.44
7	misc	11660	9.07
8	alt.sex.fetish	10526	8.19
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	10177	7.92
10	rec.arts	8796	6.84
11	alt.fan	7913	6.16
12	comp.sys	7668	5.96
13	rec.games	6877	5.35
14	rec.music	5541	4.31
15	soc	5480	4.26
16	microsoft	5293	4.12
17	comp.os	5272	4.10
18	microsoft.public	5253	4.09
19	alt.politics	5195	4.04
20	talk	4926	3.83

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/16	350.17	100.00			128554	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	11.93	3.41			4663	3.63
01	5.79	1.65			2456	1.91
02	6.33	1.81			2524	1.96
03	8.56	2.44			3339	2.60
04	12.45	3.55			4488	3.49
05	10.88	3.11			4195	3.26
06	12.64	3.61			4586	3.57
07	16.69	4.77			6736	5.24
08	15.44	4.41			6533	5.08
09	15.96	4.56			6575	5.11
10	14.23	4.06			5257	4.09
11	14.42	4.12			5034	3.92
12	17.18	4.91			5977	4.65
13	17.60	5.03			6491	5.05
14	16.15	4.61			5780	4.50
15	19.51	5.57			6280	4.89
16	17.25	4.93			7092	5.52
17	15.95	4.56			6976	5.43
18	15.23	4.35			5762	4.48
19	14.86	4.25			4908	3.82
20	19.87	5.67			6266	4.87
21	16.21	4.63			5200	4.04
22	16.50	4.71			5265	4.10
23	18.54	5.29			6171	4.80

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	350.17	100.00			128554	100.00