Usenet Statistics (1997/02/17 - 1997/02/17)

Average daily rate: 335.29 Mb, 109355 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	243.17	72.53
2	uunet	54.50	16.25
3	news-out.internetmci.com	37.60	11.21
4	newsmaster	0.02	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	80385	73.51
2	uunet	26911	24.61
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2044	1.87
4	newsmaster	11	0.01
5	ip-67.sb.net	3	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.trans	18.21	5.43
2	alt.sex.incest	4.35	1.30
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	4.26	1.27
4	alt.sex.pictures.female	3.56	1.06
5	misc.jobs.offered	3.29	0.98
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.07	0.91
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	3.04	0.91
8	alt.sex.pictures	2.55	0.76
9	us.jobs.offered	2.21	0.66
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	2.12	0.63
11	alt.binaries.games	2.02	0.60
12	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.01	0.60
13	alt.binaries.erotica	1.97	0.59
14	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.83	0.54
15	alt.sex.kinky.chicago	1.72	0.51
16	alt.sex.pictures.male	1.60	0.48
17	alt.sex.fetish.hair	1.60	0.48
18	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.59	0.47
19	alt.sex.femdom	1.57	0.47
20	alt.sex.erotica	1.54	0.46

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	5631	5.15
2	us.jobs.offered	4729	4.32
3	ba.jobs.offered	2702	2.47
4	biz.jobs.offered	1580	1.44
5	misc.jobs.contract	1241	1.13
6	us.jobs.contract	981	0.90
7	prg.jobs	954	0.87
8	alt.sex	921	0.84
9	alt.sex.pictures.female	875	0.80
10	alt.sex.pictures	868	0.79
11	news.newusers.questions	845	0.77
12	us.jobs	831	0.76
13	comp.jobs.offered	800	0.73
14	alt.sex.erotica	798	0.73
15	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	773	0.71
16	comp.jobs	770	0.70
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	735	0.67
18	alt.sex.exhibitionism	661	0.60
19	alt.sex.erotica.market.place	640	0.59
20	rec.sport.pro-wrestling	616	0.56

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	169.61	50.59
2	alt.sex	85.55	25.52
3	alt.binaries	63.55	18.95
4	rec	62.11	18.52
5	alt.binaries.pictures	45.42	13.55
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	33.00	9.84
7	comp	25.55	7.62
8	alt.sex.trans	18.21	5.43
9	misc	13.05	3.89
10	alt.sex.fetish	11.59	3.46
11	rec.games	11.03	3.29
12	rec.arts	10.41	3.11
13	alt.sex.pictures	8.92	2.66
14	alt.fan	8.17	2.44
15	comp.sys	7.67	2.29
16	rec.music	6.95	2.07
17	alt.binaries.warez	6.15	1.84
18	rec.sport	6.02	1.79
19	comp.os	5.81	1.73
20	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	5.67	1.69

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	79742	72.92
2	rec	38529	35.23
3	alt.sex	37418	34.22
4	comp	21180	19.37
5	misc	14492	13.25
6	alt.binaries	13883	12.70
7	alt.binaries.pictures	11494	10.51
8	misc.jobs	7937	7.26
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	7916	7.24
10	us	7841	7.17
11	us.jobs	7279	6.66
12	rec.arts	7123	6.51
13	comp.sys	6409	5.86
14	misc.jobs.offered	5717	5.23
15	rec.games	5433	4.97
16	alt.sex.fetish	5429	4.96
17	alt.fan	5112	4.67
18	microsoft	4962	4.54
19	microsoft.public	4920	4.50
20	us.jobs.offered	4764	4.36

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/17	335.28	100.00			109352	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	14.72	4.39			5313	4.86
01	9.69	2.89			3201	2.93
02	3.50	1.04			1522	1.39
03	33.72	10.06			3802	3.48
04	29.23	8.72			4318	3.95
05	7.84	2.34			2775	2.54
06	14.44	4.31			5889	5.39
07	11.56	3.45			5050	4.62
08	17.41	5.19			5482	5.01
09	12.80	3.82			4633	4.24
10	11.36	3.39			4538	4.15
11	9.96	2.97			3656	3.34
12	9.89	2.95			3881	3.55
13	12.29	3.67			4988	4.56
14	11.08	3.30			4636	4.24
15	12.59	3.75			4526	4.14
16	11.79	3.52			4574	4.18
17	13.62	4.06			5400	4.94
18	13.63	4.06			5626	5.14
19	13.05	3.89			5056	4.62
20	14.63	4.36			5611	5.13
21	16.64	4.96			6092	5.57
22	17.97	5.36			5202	4.76
23	11.87	3.54			3581	3.27

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Monday	335.28	100.00			109352	100.00