Usenet Statistics (1997/02/19 - 1997/02/19)

Average daily rate: 269.74 Mb, 103079 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	197.21	73.11
2	uunet	48.55	18.00
3	news-out.internetmci.com	23.80	8.82
4	newsmaster	0.18	0.07
5	ip-80.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	77444	75.13
2	uunet	23664	22.96
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1651	1.60
4	newsmaster	318	0.31
5	ip-80.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.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.31	2.34
2	alt.sex.pictures	5.50	2.04
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.73	1.75
4	alt.sex.pictures.female	3.13	1.16
5	misc.jobs.offered	2.64	0.98
6	alt.sex.exhibitionism	2.58	0.96
7	us.jobs.offered	2.49	0.92
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.48	0.92
9	alt.sex.stories	2.40	0.89
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	1.97	0.73
11	alt.binaries.erotica	1.96	0.73
12	ba.jobs.offered	1.65	0.61
13	alt.sex.pictures.male	1.65	0.61
14	bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	1.64	0.61
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	1.61	0.60
16	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.42	0.53
17	de.alt.binaries.pictures.female	1.35	0.50
18	alt.sex.girl.watchers	1.31	0.48
19	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.27	0.47
20	biz.jobs.offered	1.21	0.45

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	5247	5.09
2	us.jobs.offered	5060	4.91
3	biz.jobs.offered	3085	2.99
4	ba.jobs.offered	3053	2.96
5	comp.jobs.offered	2045	1.98
6	misc.jobs.contract	1636	1.59
7	prg.jobs	1620	1.57
8	us.jobs.contract	1251	1.21
9	comp.jobs	1250	1.21
10	alt.jobs	1170	1.14
11	us.jobs	1124	1.09
12	alt.sex.pictures	886	0.86
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	882	0.86
14	misc.jobs	863	0.84
15	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	855	0.83
16	alt.sex	816	0.79
17	rec.collecting.sport.football	808	0.78
18	rec.collecting.sport.basketball	797	0.77
19	news.newusers.questions	797	0.77
20	alt.sex.exhibitionism	700	0.68

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	114.12	42.31
2	rec	60.23	22.33
3	alt.binaries	53.48	19.83
4	alt.sex	43.28	16.05
5	alt.binaries.pictures	35.11	13.02
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	28.09	10.41
7	comp	24.69	9.15
8	misc	12.38	4.59
9	rec.arts	11.05	4.10
10	alt.sex.pictures	10.62	3.94
11	rec.games	10.06	3.73
12	comp.sys	7.44	2.76
13	alt.sex.fetish	7.22	2.68
14	alt.binaries.warez	7.22	2.68
15	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.20	2.67
16	alt.fan	6.71	2.49
17	microsoft	6.19	2.30
18	microsoft.public	6.16	2.28
19	rec.music	6.01	2.23
20	rec.collecting	5.59	2.07

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	69689	67.61
2	rec	42590	41.32
3	alt.sex	28729	27.87
4	comp	22810	22.13
5	misc	14820	14.38
6	alt.binaries	12826	12.44
7	alt.binaries.pictures	10668	10.35
8	misc.jobs	8506	8.25
9	us	8503	8.25
10	us.jobs	8322	8.07
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	7645	7.42
12	rec.arts	7447	7.22
13	comp.sys	6305	6.12
14	biz	5860	5.69
15	rec.games	5663	5.49
16	misc.jobs.offered	5326	5.17
17	microsoft	5246	5.09
18	us.jobs.offered	5193	5.04
19	microsoft.public	5185	5.03
20	alt.fan	5067	4.92

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/19	269.73	100.00			103078	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	13.10	4.86			4933	4.79
01	5.53	2.05			2054	1.99
02	2.77	1.03			1319	1.28
03	6.54	2.43			2250	2.18
04	8.18	3.03			3072	2.98
05	7.30	2.71			3559	3.45
06	11.26	4.17			4164	4.04
07	13.68	5.07			5350	5.19
08	13.03	4.83			5127	4.97
09	10.90	4.04			3969	3.85
10	13.65	5.06			4887	4.74
11	12.90	4.78			5020	4.87
12	14.66	5.43			5773	5.60
13	13.89	5.15			5016	4.87
14	13.75	5.10			4093	3.97
15	10.60	3.93			4862	4.72
16	10.63	3.94			4155	4.03
17	9.58	3.55			4265	4.14
18	10.20	3.78			4878	4.73
19	9.60	3.56			4466	4.33
20	10.63	3.94			4087	3.96
21	13.21	4.90			4910	4.76
22	17.42	6.46			5284	5.13
23	16.74	6.21			5585	5.42

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	269.73	100.00			103078	100.00