Usenet Statistics (1997/02/18 - 1997/02/18)

Average daily rate: 281.59 Mb, 105387 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	205.61	73.02
2	uunet	51.64	18.34
3	news-out.internetmci.com	24.32	8.64
4	newsmaster	0.03	0.01
5	ip-84.sb.net	0.00	0.00
6	ip-45.sb.net	0.00	0.00
7	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	77336	73.38
2	uunet	26349	25.00
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1667	1.58
4	newsmaster	32	0.03
5	ip-45.sb.net	1	0.00
6	ip-84.sb.net	1	0.00
7	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	6.68	2.37
2	alt.sex.pictures	4.99	1.77
3	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	4.08	1.45
4	alt.sex.pictures.female	4.08	1.45
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.52	1.25
6	alt.sex.incest	2.98	1.06
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.92	1.04
8	misc.jobs.offered	2.92	1.04
9	us.jobs.offered	2.40	0.85
10	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.19	0.78
11	alt.sex.stories	1.97	0.70
12	alt.binaries.games	1.50	0.53
13	news.admin.net-abuse.misc	1.49	0.53
14	rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.sales	1.48	0.52
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1.41	0.50
16	es.alt.binarios.sexo	1.36	0.48
17	alt.sex.kinky.chicago	1.36	0.48
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.voyeurism	1.35	0.48
19	news.newusers.questions	1.33	0.47
20	alt.binaries.pictures.nude	1.31	0.46

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	4986	4.73
2	us.jobs.offered	4394	4.17
3	biz.jobs.offered	2857	2.71
4	ba.jobs.offered	1967	1.87
5	comp.jobs.offered	1804	1.71
6	misc.jobs.contract	1767	1.68
7	prg.jobs	1558	1.48
8	us.jobs.contract	1251	1.19
9	comp.jobs	1242	1.18
10	alt.jobs	1043	0.99
11	news.newusers.questions	1001	0.95
12	us.jobs	887	0.84
13	alt.sex.pictures	868	0.82
14	alt.sex	785	0.74
15	misc.jobs	762	0.72
16	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	735	0.70
17	rec.sport.pro-wrestling	715	0.68
18	talk.politics.misc	703	0.67
19	alt.atheism	691	0.66
20	alt.sex.pictures.female	678	0.64

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	122.20	43.40
2	rec	58.69	20.84
3	alt.binaries	51.68	18.35
4	alt.sex	49.45	17.56
5	alt.binaries.pictures	35.04	12.44
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	27.44	9.74
7	comp	26.62	9.45
8	misc	13.14	4.67
9	rec.arts	11.30	4.01
10	alt.sex.pictures	10.81	3.84
11	rec.games	10.39	3.69
12	comp.sys	8.20	2.91
13	alt.fan	7.76	2.76
14	alt.sex.fetish	7.18	2.55
15	alt.binaries.warez	7.15	2.54
16	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.69	2.38
17	rec.music	5.85	2.08
18	microsoft	5.77	2.05
19	microsoft.public	5.75	2.04
20	rec.sport	5.40	1.92

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	69389	65.84
2	rec	39900	37.86
3	alt.sex	26978	25.60
4	comp	24198	22.96
5	misc	14944	14.18
6	alt.binaries	10020	9.51
7	alt.binaries.pictures	8355	7.93
8	us	8311	7.89
9	misc.jobs	8184	7.77
10	us.jobs	7448	7.07
11	rec.arts	7348	6.97
12	comp.sys	6981	6.62
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	6349	6.02
14	rec.games	5630	5.34
15	biz	5456	5.18
16	alt.fan	5358	5.08
17	misc.jobs.offered	5088	4.83
18	microsoft	4989	4.73
19	microsoft.public	4950	4.70
20	alt.sex.fetish	4791	4.55

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/18	281.58	100.00			105385	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	11.65	4.14			4692	4.45
01	6.27	2.23			2137	2.03
02	5.23	1.86			2299	2.18
03	9.76	3.47			3870	3.67
04	10.25	3.64			3833	3.64
05	10.94	3.89			4105	3.90
06	7.76	2.76			3163	3.00
07	8.78	3.12			3662	3.47
08	12.94	4.59			5179	4.91
09	12.45	4.42			5030	4.77
10	15.81	5.62			5137	4.87
11	14.18	5.04			5296	5.03
12	12.98	4.61			4618	4.38
13	15.02	5.34			5120	4.86
14	8.24	2.93			3551	3.37
15	13.13	4.66			5335	5.06
16	11.33	4.02			4913	4.66
17	8.59	3.05			3384	3.21
18	12.91	4.59			4618	4.38
19	13.44	4.77			4476	4.25
20	11.69	4.15			4746	4.50
21	14.02	4.98			4434	4.21
22	18.28	6.49			5725	5.43
23	15.91	5.65			6062	5.75

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Tuesday	281.58	100.00			105385	100.00