Usenet Statistics (1997/02/22 - 1997/02/22)

Average daily rate: 212.84 Mb, 81982 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	154.28	72.49
2	uunet	38.09	17.90
3	news-out.internetmci.com	20.45	9.61
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	65019	79.31
2	uunet	15898	19.39
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1052	1.28
4	newsmaster	12	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	4.45	2.09
2	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.54	1.19
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.53	1.19
4	alt.sex.pictures	2.52	1.18
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	2.44	1.15
6	alt.sex.pictures.male	2.12	1.00
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	2.09	0.98
8	alt.binaries.mac.applications	1.93	0.91
9	misc.jobs.offered	1.82	0.86
10	alt.sex.fetish.fa	1.59	0.75
11	de.alt.binaries.pictures.male	1.54	0.73
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.big-folks	1.53	0.72
13	alt.sex.stories	1.46	0.68
14	alt.binaries.erotica.female.plumpers	1.44	0.68
15	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1.43	0.67
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.asian.male	1.25	0.59
17	rec.arts.books.marketplace	1.21	0.57
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish	1.16	0.54
19	ba.jobs.offered	1.15	0.54
20	news.newusers.questions	1.08	0.51

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	3083	3.76
2	us.jobs.offered	2619	3.19
3	biz.jobs.offered	2608	3.18
4	comp.jobs.offered	1899	2.32
5	ba.jobs.offered	1716	2.09
6	misc.jobs.contract	1573	1.92
7	us.jobs.contract	1290	1.57
8	alt.jobs	1002	1.22
9	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	945	1.15
10	news.newusers.questions	902	1.10
11	us.jobs	883	1.08
12	rec.collecting.sport.basketball	833	1.02
13	rec.collecting.sport.football	814	0.99
14	prg.jobs	705	0.86
15	alt.sex	650	0.79
16	rec.collecting.sport.hockey	623	0.76
17	misc.jobs	584	0.71
18	rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc	583	0.71
19	comp.jobs	575	0.70
20	rec.sport.pro-wrestling	554	0.68

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	88.36	41.51
2	rec	52.00	24.43
3	alt.binaries	42.90	20.15
4	alt.binaries.pictures	29.78	13.99
5	alt.sex	28.30	13.30
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	24.93	11.71
7	comp	19.69	9.25
8	rec.arts	10.77	5.06
9	misc	9.46	4.44
10	rec.games	7.85	3.69
11	alt.sex.pictures	7.48	3.51
12	comp.sys	7.00	3.29
13	alt.fan	6.76	3.18
14	rec.music	5.39	2.53
15	rec.collecting	5.37	2.52
16	alt.sex.fetish	5.21	2.45
17	alt.binaries.warez	5.00	2.35
18	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	4.54	2.13
19	rec.collecting.sport	4.29	2.01
20	rec.sport	3.66	1.72

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	61512	75.03
2	rec	37571	45.83
3	alt.sex	26390	32.19
4	comp	16332	19.92
5	misc	10661	13.00
6	alt.binaries	8618	10.51
7	alt.binaries.pictures	7063	8.62
8	rec.arts	6724	8.20
9	misc.jobs	5835	7.12
10	us	5734	6.99
11	us.jobs	5575	6.80
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	5207	6.35
13	comp.sys	4991	6.09
14	rec.games	4607	5.62
15	biz	4477	5.46
16	alt.fan	4432	5.41
17	rec.music	4197	5.12
18	rec.collecting	4134	5.04
19	alt.sex.fetish	4088	4.99
20	soc	3357	4.09

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/22	212.84	100.00			81982	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	12.99	6.10			4618	5.63
01	6.27	2.95			2014	2.46
02	6.16	2.89			2198	2.68
03	8.43	3.96			2723	3.32
04	3.68	1.73			1572	1.92
05	4.27	2.01			1590	1.94
06	5.46	2.56			2228	2.72
07	3.98	1.87			1523	1.86
08	4.45	2.09			1665	2.03
09	1.54	0.72			771	0.94
10	4.76	2.24			1733	2.11
11	5.47	2.57			2702	3.30
12	4.83	2.27			1803	2.20
13	7.13	3.35			2762	3.37
14	13.27	6.23			5388	6.57
15	13.84	6.50			5209	6.35
16	9.91	4.66			3907	4.77
17	15.26	7.17			5102	6.22
18	12.30	5.78			5144	6.27
19	12.33	5.79			4640	5.66
20	14.88	6.99			6201	7.56
21	14.57	6.85			6442	7.86
22	15.30	7.19			5619	6.85
23	11.77	5.53			4428	5.40

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	212.84	100.00			81982	100.00