Usenet Statistics (1997/02/27 - 1997/02/27)

Average daily rate: 833.23 Mb, 235183 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	452.29	54.28
2	news-out.internetmci.com	225.84	27.10
3	uunet	155.06	18.61
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.00
5	ip-47.sb.net	0.01	0.00
6	ip-56.sb.net	0.00	0.00
7	ip-87.sb.net	0.00	0.00
8	skydive.mill.net	0.00	0.00
9	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	156369	66.49
2	uunet	65560	27.88
3	news-out.internetmci.com	13229	5.63
4	newsmaster	13	0.01
5	ip-47.sb.net	4	0.00
6	ip-56.sb.net	3	0.00
7	ip-87.sb.net	2	0.00
8	skydive.mill.net	1	0.00
9	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	40.03	4.80
2	alt.binaries.games	30.68	3.68
3	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	16.55	1.99
4	es.alt.binarios.sexo	12.09	1.45
5	alt.sex.stories	8.77	1.05
6	alt.fan.jenny-mccarthy	8.56	1.03
7	alt.binaries.dragonz	6.83	0.82
8	misc.jobs.offered	5.96	0.71
9	alt.sex.pictures	5.56	0.67
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	5.00	0.60
11	us.jobs.offered	4.91	0.59
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.84	0.58
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	4.82	0.58
14	alt.sex.exhibitionism	4.63	0.56
15	alt.sex.pictures.female	4.52	0.54
16	alt.binaries.mac.games	4.32	0.52
17	ba.jobs.offered	4.32	0.52
18	alt.sex.trans	4.24	0.51
19	alt.binaries.warez	4.18	0.50
20	alt.sex.fetish.fa	4.16	0.50

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	10443	4.44
2	us.jobs.offered	10043	4.27
3	ba.jobs.offered	6078	2.58
4	biz.jobs.offered	5625	2.39
5	comp.jobs.offered	4105	1.75
6	misc.jobs.contract	4050	1.72
7	alt.jobs	3329	1.42
8	us.jobs.contract	3319	1.41
9	us.jobs	3125	1.33
10	prg.jobs	2598	1.10
11	news.newusers.questions	2203	0.94
12	comp.jobs	1838	0.78
13	misc.jobs	1795	0.76
14	talk.politics.misc	1674	0.71
15	tx.jobs	1415	0.60
16	us.jobs.misc	1371	0.58
17	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	1339	0.57
18	jobs.offered	1312	0.56
19	alt.sex	1251	0.53
20	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	1241	0.53

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	445.33	53.45
2	alt.binaries	241.79	29.02
3	rec	131.22	15.75
4	alt.sex	130.83	15.70
5	alt.binaries.pictures	110.30	13.24
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	83.30	10.00
7	comp	53.99	6.48
8	alt.binaries.warez	47.34	5.68
9	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	42.21	5.07
10	alt.fan	36.50	4.38
11	alt.binaries.games	30.74	3.69
12	alt.sex.fetish	29.91	3.59
13	rec.arts	25.83	3.10
14	misc	24.42	2.93
15	rec.games	22.04	2.64
16	es	20.01	2.40
17	alt.binaries.multimedia	17.19	2.06
18	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	16.64	2.00
19	comp.sys	15.56	1.87
20	es.alt	15.27	1.83

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	146013	62.08
2	rec	84090	35.76
3	alt.sex	65708	27.94
4	comp	44304	18.84
5	misc	30007	12.76
6	us	19472	8.28
7	us.jobs	18651	7.93
8	misc.jobs	17999	7.65
9	alt.binaries	17169	7.30
10	rec.arts	15228	6.48
11	alt.binaries.pictures	13918	5.92
12	alt.sex.fetish	12851	5.46
13	comp.sys	12399	5.27
14	alt.fan	11548	4.91
15	biz	11022	4.69
16	rec.games	10833	4.61
17	misc.jobs.offered	10777	4.58
18	us.jobs.offered	10374	4.41
19	rec.music	10062	4.28
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	9990	4.25

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/27	741.04	100.00			209164	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
02	15.98	2.16			4285	2.05
03	31.31	4.23			10768	5.15
04	25.76	3.48			11072	5.29
05	34.30	4.63			11962	5.72
06	32.58	4.40			11509	5.50
07	28.59	3.86			11191	5.35
08	3.10	0.42			1168	0.56
10	22.80	3.08			9119	4.36
11	27.67	3.73			11145	5.33
12	31.65	4.27			11537	5.52
13	30.69	4.14			11632	5.56
14	29.70	4.01			11870	5.67
15	34.11	4.60			12291	5.88
16	28.31	3.82			11529	5.51
17	33.48	4.52			11556	5.52
18	42.76	5.77			11638	5.56
19	41.18	5.56			10988	5.25
20	68.86	9.29			8911	4.26
21	67.94	9.17			8134	3.89
22	45.51	6.14			6836	3.27
23	64.76	8.74			10023	4.79

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Thursday	741.04	100.00			209164	100.00