Usenet Statistics (1997/02/26 - 1997/02/26)

Average daily rate: 228.51 Mb, 94274 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	163.79	71.68
2	uunet	45.12	19.75
3	news-out.internetmci.com	19.57	8.56
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.01
5	millennianet	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	70927	75.24
2	uunet	21870	23.20
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1456	1.55
4	newsmaster	17	0.02
5	millennianet	2	0.00
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	6.25	2.74
2	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	5.34	2.34
3	biz.jobs.offered	3.95	1.73
4	us.jobs.offered	3.19	1.39
5	alt.sex.pictures.female	2.81	1.23
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.40	1.05
7	comp.jobs.offered	2.11	0.93
8	ba.jobs.offered	2.09	0.91
9	alt.sex.pictures	1.88	0.82
10	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1.84	0.80
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.70	0.75
12	alt.sex.stories	1.64	0.72
13	alt.sex.exhibitionism	1.56	0.68
14	misc.jobs.contract	1.54	0.68
15	alt.sex.fetish.wrestling	1.46	0.64
16	us.jobs.contract	1.32	0.58
17	news.newusers.questions	1.15	0.50
18	alt.fan.pamwatch	1.08	0.47
19	alt.binaries.warez.insomniac	1.07	0.47
20	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	0.96	0.42

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	8613	9.14
2	biz.jobs.offered	7465	7.92
3	us.jobs.offered	6865	7.28
4	comp.jobs.offered	5649	5.99
5	misc.jobs.contract	4015	4.26
6	us.jobs.contract	3657	3.88
7	ba.jobs.offered	3635	3.86
8	prg.jobs	1201	1.27
9	alt.jobs	1196	1.27
10	us.jobs	965	1.02
11	news.newusers.questions	886	0.94
12	la.jobs	784	0.83
13	tx.jobs	758	0.80
14	alt.sex	742	0.79
15	comp.jobs	739	0.78
16	talk.politics.misc	686	0.73
17	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	660	0.70
18	alt.sex.pictures	620	0.66
19	alt.atheism	600	0.64
20	ba.jobs.contract	598	0.64

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	77.82	34.06
2	rec	50.46	22.08
3	alt.binaries	33.75	14.77
4	alt.sex	26.33	11.52
5	comp	24.09	10.54
6	alt.binaries.pictures	20.21	8.85
7	misc	16.11	7.05
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	15.82	6.92
9	rec.arts	10.06	4.40
10	rec.games	9.02	3.95
11	misc.jobs	8.43	3.69
12	alt.binaries.warez	8.06	3.53
13	alt.fan	7.14	3.12
14	comp.sys	6.79	2.97
15	biz	6.63	2.90
16	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.31	2.76
17	misc.jobs.offered	6.29	2.75
18	alt.sex.pictures	5.44	2.38
19	us	5.36	2.35
20	alt.sex.fetish	5.25	2.30

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	69711	73.95
2	rec	34266	36.35
3	alt.sex	31132	33.02
4	comp	24328	25.81
5	misc	19526	20.71
6	misc.jobs	13831	14.67
7	us	12426	13.18
8	us.jobs	12218	12.96
9	biz	10363	10.99
10	alt.binaries	8785	9.32
11	misc.jobs.offered	8706	9.24
12	biz.jobs	7822	8.30
13	biz.jobs.offered	7557	8.02
14	alt.binaries.pictures	7256	7.70
15	us.jobs.offered	6975	7.40
16	comp.jobs	6504	6.90
17	rec.arts	6211	6.59
18	comp.sys	5703	6.05
19	comp.jobs.offered	5650	5.99
20	ba	5348	5.67

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/26	210.64	100.00			86905	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	10.30	4.89			3808	4.38
01	4.94	2.35			2226	2.56
02	3.03	1.44			1262	1.45
03	5.91	2.81			2445	2.81
04	6.63	3.15			3015	3.47
05	5.49	2.61			2755	3.17
06	9.43	4.48			4006	4.61
07	11.68	5.55			4931	5.67
08	11.61	5.51			4683	5.39
09	10.45	4.96			4557	5.24
10	9.83	4.66			4627	5.32
11	11.12	5.28			4289	4.94
12	10.66	5.06			4213	4.85
13	9.81	4.66			4115	4.74
14	10.11	4.80			4013	4.62
15	7.83	3.72			3346	3.85
16	9.47	4.50			4061	4.67
17	8.94	4.25			3333	3.84
18	9.50	4.51			3981	4.58
19	14.62	6.94			5880	6.77
20	15.99	7.59			6243	7.18
21	11.87	5.64			4506	5.18
22	1.40	0.67			610	0.70

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	210.64	100.00			86905	100.00