Usenet Statistics (1997/03/05 - 1997/03/05)

Average daily rate: 603.82 Mb, 155771 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	449.05	74.37
2	uunet	99.73	16.52
3	news-out.internetmci.com	55.02	9.11
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.00
5	opsoft	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	107697	69.14
2	uunet	45419	29.16
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2632	1.69
4	newsmaster	20	0.01
5	opsoft	2	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.games	19.45	3.22
2	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	16.89	2.80
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.spanking	8.32	1.38
4	alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels	6.52	1.08
5	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	5.68	0.94
6	alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels.cindy-crawford	5.67	0.94
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	5.48	0.91
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	5.42	0.90
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	5.42	0.90
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	5.30	0.88
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.97	0.82
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	4.95	0.82
13	alt.sex.exhibitionism	4.93	0.82
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	4.76	0.79
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	4.33	0.72
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female.anal	4.26	0.71
17	it.binari.erotismo	4.13	0.68
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	3.93	0.65
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	3.89	0.65
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	3.79	0.63

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	5127	3.29
2	us.jobs.offered	4839	3.11
3	ba.jobs.offered	3250	2.09
4	biz.jobs.offered	2321	1.49
5	us.jobs	1665	1.07
6	misc.jobs.contract	1629	1.05
7	alt.jobs	1534	0.99
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1428	0.92
9	us.jobs.contract	1320	0.85
10	comp.jobs.offered	1259	0.81
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1161	0.75
12	comp.jobs	1119	0.72
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1092	0.70
14	alt.sex	1003	0.64
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	1003	0.64
16	prg.jobs	997	0.64
17	news.newusers.questions	983	0.63
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	969	0.62
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	923	0.59
20	alt.sex.pictures	921	0.59

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	387.69	64.21
2	alt.binaries	296.34	49.08
3	alt.binaries.pictures	211.23	34.98
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	152.59	25.27
5	alt.sex	63.95	10.59
6	rec	57.21	9.47
7	comp	26.94	4.46
8	alt.binaries.games	21.50	3.56
9	alt.binaries.warez	19.18	3.18
10	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	17.70	2.93
11	alt.sex.fetish	13.89	2.30
12	misc	12.75	2.11
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	12.44	2.06
14	alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels	12.30	2.04
15	alt.fan	10.81	1.79
16	rec.arts	10.34	1.71
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	10.14	1.68
18	rec.games	10.11	1.67
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	9.78	1.62
20	soc	8.76	1.45

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	189495	121.65
2	alt.binaries	83958	53.90
3	alt.sex	72281	46.40
4	alt.binaries.pictures	69176	44.41
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	53018	34.04
6	rec	37618	24.15
7	comp	23676	15.20
8	alt.sex.fetish	15015	9.64
9	misc	14578	9.36
10	us	9361	6.01
11	us.jobs	9104	5.84
12	misc.jobs	8544	5.49
13	soc	7203	4.62
14	comp.sys	6500	4.17
15	rec.arts	6324	4.06
16	tw	6252	4.01
17	tw.bbs	6232	4.00
18	microsoft	5317	3.41
19	microsoft.public	5286	3.39
20	rec.games	5269	3.38

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/05	498.01	100.00			128474	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	29.99	6.02			7220	5.62
01	27.16	5.45			6420	5.00
02	12.32	2.47			2899	2.26
03	21.32	4.28			4727	3.68
04	30.28	6.08			7725	6.01
05	38.11	7.65			7615	5.93
06	23.60	4.74			7078	5.51
07	16.29	3.27			6288	4.89
08	25.39	5.10			6647	5.17
09	21.74	4.37			6544	5.09
10	17.33	3.48			5341	4.16
11	26.16	5.25			6529	5.08
12	28.84	5.79			7038	5.48
13	31.91	6.41			7752	6.03
14	27.91	5.60			6862	5.34
15	21.25	4.27			5740	4.47
16	23.62	4.74			6762	5.26
17	28.55	5.73			7284	5.67
18	26.80	5.38			6838	5.32
19	19.44	3.90			5165	4.02

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	498.01	100.00			128474	100.00