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

Average daily rate: 1042.24 Mb, 196752 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	769.09	73.79
2	news-out.internetmci.com	139.50	13.38
3	uunet	133.60	12.82
4	newsmaster	0.04	0.00
5	opsoft	0.01	0.00
6	ip-74.sb.net	0.00	0.00
7	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	128102	65.11
2	uunet	59381	30.18
3	news-out.internetmci.com	9234	4.69
4	newsmaster	29	0.01
5	opsoft	4	0.00
6	ip-74.sb.net	1	0.00
7	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	64.75	6.21
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	58.35	5.60
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	24.71	2.37
4	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	23.56	2.26
5	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	22.41	2.15
6	alt.binaries.mac.applications	21.05	2.02
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	20.97	2.01
8	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	20.42	1.96
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	13.80	1.32
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	13.27	1.27
11	alt.binaries.fashion.magazines	12.07	1.16
12	alt.binaries.mac.games	12.02	1.15
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	11.51	1.10
14	alt.binaries.sounds.midi	11.46	1.10
15	alt.sex.trans	10.88	1.04
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	10.76	1.03
17	alt.binaries.pictures.nudism	8.22	0.79
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	7.90	0.76
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pregnant	7.36	0.71
20	alt.binaries.pictures	6.32	0.61

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	8777	4.46
2	misc.jobs.offered	8524	4.33
3	ba.jobs.offered	5913	3.01
4	biz.jobs.offered	4146	2.11
5	misc.jobs.contract	3281	1.67
6	us.jobs.contract	2643	1.34
7	comp.jobs.offered	2419	1.23
8	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2146	1.09
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1668	0.85
10	la.jobs	1468	0.75
11	alt.jobs	1322	0.67
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1253	0.64
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	1226	0.62
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1214	0.62
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1204	0.61
16	comp.jobs	1105	0.56
17	prg.jobs	1074	0.55
18	news.newusers.questions	1056	0.54
19	us.jobs	1009	0.51
20	ba.jobs.contract	951	0.48

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	745.27	71.51
2	alt.binaries	644.81	61.87
3	alt.binaries.pictures	369.83	35.48
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	240.61	23.09
5	rec	79.79	7.66
6	alt.binaries.games	64.81	6.22
7	alt.sex	59.65	5.72
8	alt.binaries.multimedia	59.15	5.68
9	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	59.00	5.66
10	alt.binaries.sounds	40.97	3.93
11	comp	34.45	3.30
12	alt.binaries.mac	33.66	3.23
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic	28.36	2.72
14	alt.binaries.warez	27.67	2.65
15	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	24.90	2.39
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	24.71	2.37
17	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	23.56	2.26
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	23.31	2.24
19	alt.binaries.mac.applications	21.05	2.02
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	20.97	2.01

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	144112	73.25
2	alt.binaries	62926	31.98
3	rec	49343	25.08
4	alt.binaries.pictures	49087	24.95
5	alt.sex	39801	20.23
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	37724	19.17
7	comp	27482	13.97
8	misc	21545	10.95
9	us	13740	6.98
10	us.jobs	13426	6.82
11	misc.jobs	13183	6.70
12	tw	11451	5.82
13	tw.bbs	11425	5.81
14	soc	9172	4.66
15	us.jobs.offered	8882	4.51
16	misc.jobs.offered	8628	4.39
17	rec.arts	8360	4.25
18	ba	8317	4.23
19	biz	7914	4.02
20	alt.sex.fetish	7773	3.95

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/03	1042.23	100.00			196750	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	73.72	7.07			9023	4.59
01	35.14	3.37			9952	5.06
02	23.40	2.24			6236	3.17
03	137.11	13.16			8414	4.28
04	68.58	6.58			10602	5.39
05	108.70	10.43			9651	4.91
06	120.80	11.59			8897	4.52
07	55.75	5.35			8766	4.46
08	48.69	4.67			8580	4.36
09	25.52	2.45			8459	4.30
10	25.86	2.48			8503	4.32
11	23.57	2.26			7683	3.90
12	19.98	1.92			6828	3.47
13	15.11	1.45			4562	2.32
14	29.62	2.84			9133	4.64
15	22.16	2.13			8321	4.23
16	24.05	2.31			7224	3.67
17	19.97	1.92			6662	3.39
18	23.90	2.29			7995	4.06
19	24.58	2.36			8029	4.08
20	23.90	2.29			7719	3.92
21	24.98	2.40			7499	3.81
22	30.16	2.89			8462	4.30
23	36.98	3.55			9550	4.85

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Monday	1042.23	100.00			196750	100.00