Usenet Statistics (1997/02/20 - 1997/02/20)

Average daily rate: 306.46 Mb, 102678 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	228.00	74.40
2	uunet	53.62	17.50
3	news-out.internetmci.com	24.81	8.10
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.01
5	ip-54.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	74290	72.35
2	uunet	26432	25.74
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1933	1.88
4	newsmaster	17	0.02
5	ip-54.sb.net	6	0.01
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.sex.pictures	6.86	2.24
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.89	1.59
3	alt.sex.pictures.female	4.25	1.39
4	alt.fan.christy-canyon	3.27	1.07
5	alt.sex.exhibitionism	3.19	1.04
6	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	3.01	0.98
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.86	0.93
8	misc.jobs.offered	2.71	0.89
9	alt.sex.pictures.male	2.37	0.77
10	us.jobs.offered	2.29	0.75
11	alt.sex.fetish.wrestling	2.19	0.72
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	2.05	0.67
13	alt.binaries.erotica	2.03	0.66
14	alt.binaries.games	1.95	0.64
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	1.86	0.61
16	alt.fan.oksana-bayul.small-tits	1.77	0.58
17	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.75	0.57
18	alt.fan.traci-lords	1.72	0.56
19	alt.sex.stories	1.66	0.54
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1.48	0.48

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	4513	4.40
2	misc.jobs.offered	4439	4.32
3	ba.jobs.offered	2610	2.54
4	biz.jobs.offered	2443	2.38
5	comp.jobs.offered	1605	1.56
6	misc.jobs.contract	1525	1.49
7	alt.jobs	1098	1.07
8	us.jobs.contract	1087	1.06
9	alt.sex.pictures	1043	1.02
10	news.newusers.questions	961	0.94
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	820	0.80
12	alt.sex	795	0.77
13	prg.jobs	786	0.77
14	alt.sex.pictures.female	769	0.75
15	us.jobs	746	0.73
16	comp.jobs	710	0.69
17	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	659	0.64
18	talk.politics.misc	647	0.63
19	alt.sex.exhibitionism	646	0.63
20	alt.politics.usa.republican	591	0.58

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	145.40	47.44
2	alt.binaries	59.46	19.40
3	rec	59.10	19.28
4	alt.sex	56.69	18.50
5	alt.binaries.pictures	43.35	14.14
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	34.26	11.18
7	comp	26.74	8.72
8	alt.fan	16.86	5.50
9	alt.sex.pictures	14.05	4.58
10	misc	12.45	4.06
11	rec.arts	11.76	3.84
12	rec.games	10.62	3.46
13	alt.sex.fetish	9.62	3.14
14	comp.sys	8.54	2.79
15	microsoft	6.23	2.03
16	microsoft.public	6.19	2.02
17	rec.music	5.96	1.95
18	rec.sport	4.96	1.62
19	comp.os	4.71	1.54
20	news	4.63	1.51

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	76660	74.66
2	rec	39220	38.20
3	alt.sex	31418	30.60
4	comp	22853	22.26
5	misc	14045	13.68
6	alt.binaries	13564	13.21
7	alt.binaries.pictures	10962	10.68
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	7866	7.66
9	us	7465	7.27
10	rec.arts	7266	7.08
11	us.jobs	7166	6.98
12	misc.jobs	7137	6.95
13	comp.sys	6761	6.59
14	alt.fan	5814	5.66
15	rec.games	5659	5.51
16	biz	5294	5.16
17	microsoft	5037	4.91
18	microsoft.public	4972	4.84
19	us.jobs.offered	4595	4.48
20	misc.jobs.offered	4586	4.47

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/20	306.43	100.00			102667	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	13.48	4.40			4568	4.45
01	6.83	2.23			2274	2.21
02	6.87	2.24			2263	2.20
03	8.54	2.79			2953	2.88
04	8.54	2.79			2948	2.87
05	9.86	3.22			3589	3.50
06	9.07	2.96			2763	2.69
07	15.21	4.97			5112	4.98
08	12.83	4.19			4435	4.32
09	14.80	4.83			4150	4.04
10	14.46	4.72			4529	4.41
11	17.54	5.72			4678	4.56
12	15.97	5.21			5307	5.17
13	14.09	4.60			5246	5.11
14	14.81	4.83			4995	4.87
15	11.37	3.71			4359	4.25
16	13.87	4.53			5122	4.99
17	8.47	2.76			3474	3.38
18	17.16	5.60			5533	5.39
19	15.71	5.13			4817	4.69
20	16.72	5.46			4779	4.65
21	6.67	2.18			2392	2.33
22	13.72	4.48			5794	5.64
23	19.82	6.47			6587	6.42

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Thursday	306.43	100.00			102667	100.00