Usenet Statistics (1997/03/02 - 1997/03/02)

Average daily rate: 3288.15 Mb, 189512 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	2520.71	76.66
2	news-out.internetmci.com	650.73	19.79
3	uunet	116.69	3.55
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
5	ip-87.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	113681	59.99
2	uunet	51443	27.15
3	news-out.internetmci.com	24379	12.86
4	newsmaster	5	0.00
5	ip-87.sb.net	3	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	501.96	15.27
2	alt.binaries.games	283.15	8.61
3	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	250.78	7.63
4	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	71.16	2.16
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	67.03	2.04
6	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	61.45	1.87
7	alt.binaries.mac.applications	56.67	1.72
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	56.32	1.71
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	45.47	1.38
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	43.89	1.33
11	alt.binaries.mac.games	42.36	1.29
12	alt.binaries.sounds.music	42.34	1.29
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	42.10	1.28
14	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	37.40	1.14
15	alt.binaries.warez	36.96	1.12
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons	35.29	1.07
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	31.87	0.97
18	alt.binaries.sounds.midi	31.64	0.96
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	30.65	0.93
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	27.74	0.84

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3467	1.83
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	3386	1.79
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	2935	1.55
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2772	1.46
5	alt.sex.pictures	2654	1.40
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	2409	1.27
7	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2323	1.23
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	2018	1.06
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	1963	1.04
10	misc.jobs.offered	1756	0.93
11	alt.sex.exhibitionism	1681	0.89
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	1656	0.87
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	1589	0.84
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	1507	0.80
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish	1437	0.76
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.oral	1404	0.74
17	us.jobs.offered	1373	0.72
18	alt.sex.pictures.female	1324	0.70
19	ba.jobs.offered	1306	0.69
20	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	1269	0.67

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	3024.00	91.97
2	alt.binaries	2791.88	84.91
3	alt.binaries.pictures	1192.11	36.25
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	911.10	27.71
5	alt.binaries.warez	593.76	18.06
6	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	551.11	16.76
7	alt.binaries.games	287.10	8.73
8	alt.binaries.multimedia	274.33	8.34
9	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	252.44	7.68
10	alt.binaries.sounds	211.36	6.43
11	alt.sex	142.58	4.34
12	alt.binaries.mac	99.56	3.03
13	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	71.19	2.17
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	69.03	2.10
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	67.03	2.04
16	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	61.45	1.87
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	56.76	1.73
18	alt.binaries.mac.applications	56.67	1.72
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	56.32	1.71
20	rec	56.27	1.71

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	229943	121.33
2	alt.binaries	113095	59.68
3	alt.binaries.pictures	92862	49.00
4	alt.sex	75496	39.84
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	72486	38.25
6	rec	36790	19.41
7	comp	18318	9.67
8	alt.sex.fetish	14306	7.55
9	tw	13587	7.17
10	tw.bbs	13524	7.14
11	soc	10439	5.51
12	misc	8810	4.65
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	8273	4.37
14	soc.culture	7742	4.09
15	rec.arts	6302	3.33
16	alt.fan	5851	3.09
17	comp.sys	5843	3.08
18	alt.sex.pictures	5385	2.84
19	alt.binaries.erotica	5347	2.82
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	5273	2.78

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/02	3288.11	100.00			189510	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	148.41	4.51			7657	4.04
01	47.70	1.45			7603	4.01
02	111.01	3.38			6334	3.34
03	177.95	5.41			7289	3.85
04	190.35	5.79			7418	3.91
05	184.13	5.60			7566	3.99
06	230.60	7.01			7013	3.70
07	206.91	6.29			7379	3.89
08	185.81	5.65			7611	4.02
09	172.17	5.24			7461	3.94
10	155.21	4.72			7655	4.04
11	156.06	4.75			7673	4.05
12	148.08	4.50			7875	4.16
13	129.61	3.94			7451	3.93
14	140.40	4.27			7491	3.95
15	151.47	4.61			7399	3.90
16	136.13	4.14			7408	3.91
17	141.82	4.31			7418	3.91
18	125.90	3.83			7875	4.16
19	41.91	1.27			9926	5.24
20	45.68	1.39			9698	5.12
21	81.55	2.48			9632	5.08
22	113.38	3.45			9207	4.86
23	65.87	2.00			9471	5.00

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	3288.11	100.00			189510	100.00