Usenet Statistics (1997/02/28 - 1997/02/28)

Average daily rate: 850.45 Mb, 204442 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	425.29	50.01
2	news-out.internetmci.com	261.98	30.81
3	uunet	163.16	19.19
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
5	ip-39.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	113818	55.67
2	uunet	77120	37.72
3	news-out.internetmci.com	13490	6.60
4	newsmaster	12	0.01
5	ip-39.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	45.81	5.39
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	34.10	4.01
3	alt.binaries.games	17.93	2.11
4	misc.jobs.offered	12.68	1.49
5	alt.sex.pictures.female	10.18	1.20
6	alt.sex.pictures	10.13	1.19
7	alt.sex.fetish.wrestling	9.23	1.09
8	alt.sex.sounds	8.26	0.97
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	8.19	0.96
10	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	8.12	0.96
11	alt.sex.exhibitionism	7.28	0.86
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob	6.66	0.78
13	us.jobs.offered	6.62	0.78
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	6.55	0.77
15	biz.jobs.offered	6.35	0.75
16	alt.sex.pictures.male	6.33	0.74
17	alt.binaries.warez	6.31	0.74
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	6.19	0.73
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	6.14	0.72
20	comp.jobs.offered	5.41	0.64

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	17567	8.59
2	biz.jobs.offered	15773	7.72
3	us.jobs.offered	15116	7.39
4	comp.jobs.offered	14692	7.19
5	misc.jobs.contract	11331	5.54
6	us.jobs.contract	10055	4.92
7	ba.jobs.offered	6135	3.00
8	prg.jobs	2254	1.10
9	tx.jobs	1859	0.91
10	la.jobs	1833	0.90
11	alt.jobs	1775	0.87
12	us.jobs	1691	0.83
13	ne.jobs.contract	1538	0.75
14	comp.jobs	1516	0.74
15	nyc.jobs.contract	1470	0.72
16	nj.jobs	1424	0.70
17	dfw.jobs	1319	0.65
18	ba.jobs.contract	1263	0.62
19	alt.sex.pictures	1207	0.59
20	nyc.jobs	1198	0.59

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	499.19	58.70
2	alt.binaries	297.58	34.99
3	alt.binaries.pictures	151.24	17.78
4	alt.sex	145.99	17.17
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	120.75	14.20
6	rec	75.18	8.84
7	alt.binaries.warez	60.98	7.17
8	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	53.95	6.34
9	comp	41.29	4.85
10	alt.binaries.multimedia	35.72	4.20
11	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	35.68	4.20
12	alt.sex.fetish	32.90	3.87
13	misc	32.00	3.76
14	alt.sex.pictures	29.53	3.47
15	alt.fan	24.33	2.86
16	misc.jobs	19.68	2.31
17	alt.binaries.games	17.94	2.11
18	rec.arts	14.84	1.74
19	tw	14.14	1.66
20	tw.bbs	14.12	1.66

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	110467	54.03
2	alt.sex	46675	22.83
3	rec	45615	22.31
4	comp	42565	20.82
5	misc	39943	19.54
6	misc.jobs	31233	15.28
7	us	29177	14.27
8	us.jobs	28711	14.04
9	biz	19835	9.70
10	alt.binaries	19063	9.32
11	misc.jobs.offered	17835	8.72
12	biz.jobs	16504	8.07
13	comp.jobs	16457	8.05
14	alt.binaries.pictures	15965	7.81
15	biz.jobs.offered	15945	7.80
16	us.jobs.offered	15235	7.45
17	comp.jobs.offered	14693	7.19
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	12625	6.18
19	tw	12444	6.09
20	tw.bbs	12363	6.05

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/02/28	850.44	100.00			204440	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	53.72	6.32			11549	5.65
01	43.44	5.11			9176	4.49
02	44.74	5.26			10581	5.18
03	45.99	5.41			11660	5.70
04	48.37	5.69			11065	5.41
05	71.53	8.41			9579	4.69
06	65.27	7.67			8134	3.98
07	55.28	6.50			8757	4.28
08	55.07	6.48			8921	4.36
09	51.31	6.03			9354	4.58
10	32.41	3.81			4633	2.27
13	9.51	1.12			2924	1.43
14	29.03	3.41			8619	4.22
15	17.98	2.11			7231	3.54
16	16.77	1.97			6271	3.07
17	28.75	3.38			10474	5.12
18	28.44	3.34			11288	5.52
19	30.91	3.63			11345	5.55
20	26.67	3.14			10487	5.13
21	26.94	3.17			10732	5.25
22	30.27	3.56			10851	5.31
23	38.04	4.47			10809	5.29

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Friday	850.44	100.00			204440	100.00