Usenet Statistics (1997/03/08 - 1997/03/08)

Average daily rate: 474.78 Mb, 111041 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	353.11	74.37
2	uunet	80.29	16.91
3	news-out.internetmci.com	41.37	8.71
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	74695	67.27
2	uunet	34707	31.26
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1628	1.47
4	newsmaster	10	0.01
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	9.87	2.08
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	9.24	1.95
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	8.76	1.85
4	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	7.75	1.63
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	7.74	1.63
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	7.11	1.50
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	5.07	1.07
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials	5.00	1.05
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	4.65	0.98
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	4.64	0.98
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	4.62	0.97
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	4.61	0.97
13	alt.binaries.mac.applications	4.44	0.94
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	4.33	0.91
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	4.19	0.88
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pregnant	4.18	0.88
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	4.14	0.87
18	alt.binaries.games	3.93	0.83
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	3.74	0.79
20	alt.binaries.pictures.girlfriends	3.65	0.77

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	4018	3.62
2	us.jobs.offered	3112	2.80
3	biz.jobs.offered	2129	1.92
4	alt.jobs	1970	1.77
5	ba.jobs.offered	1955	1.76
6	misc.jobs.contract	1568	1.41
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1466	1.32
8	us.jobs	1403	1.26
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1351	1.22
10	comp.jobs.offered	1235	1.11
11	misc.jobs	1201	1.08
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1110	1.00
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1104	0.99
14	jobs.offered	1019	0.92
15	prg.jobs	941	0.85
16	news.newusers.questions	920	0.83
17	us.jobs.contract	879	0.79
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	850	0.77
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	814	0.73
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	781	0.70

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	319.61	67.32
2	alt.binaries	264.17	55.64
3	alt.binaries.pictures	201.15	42.37
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	154.90	32.62
5	rec	47.94	10.10
6	alt.sex	30.61	6.45
7	comp	19.70	4.15
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	17.30	3.64
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	13.87	2.92
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	13.27	2.79
11	alt.binaries.warez	12.34	2.60
12	misc	12.28	2.59
13	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	12.01	2.53
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	9.24	1.95
15	rec.arts	9.02	1.90
16	alt.fan	8.33	1.76
17	alt.binaries.multimedia	7.91	1.67
18	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	7.79	1.64
19	rec.games	7.65	1.61
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	7.29	1.54

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	139081	125.25
2	alt.binaries	67838	61.09
3	alt.binaries.pictures	55857	50.30
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	42495	38.27
5	alt.sex	41074	36.99
6	rec	33476	30.15
7	comp	17503	15.76
8	misc	12945	11.66
9	alt.sex.fetish	8375	7.54
10	misc.jobs	7481	6.74
11	us	6341	5.71
12	us.jobs	6104	5.50
13	rec.arts	5472	4.93
14	comp.sys	5463	4.92
15	tw	4872	4.39
16	tw.bbs	4845	4.36
17	alt.fan	4735	4.26
18	rec.games	4536	4.09
19	biz	4467	4.02
20	soc	4338	3.91

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/08	472.53	100.00			110513	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	21.00	4.45			5599	5.07
01	18.03	3.82			4523	4.09
02	10.87	2.30			2956	2.67
03	7.65	1.62			2015	1.82
04	9.09	1.92			1915	1.73
05	7.85	1.66			2047	1.85
06	3.56	0.75			752	0.68
07	7.55	1.60			1855	1.68
08	8.53	1.81			2066	1.87
09	9.81	2.08			2219	2.01
10	23.20	4.91			5110	4.62
11	28.47	6.02			6710	6.07
12	27.72	5.87			6270	5.67
13	26.72	5.65			6080	5.50
14	24.48	5.18			5642	5.11
15	21.01	4.45			5196	4.70
16	23.51	4.97			5668	5.13
17	25.35	5.37			5766	5.22
18	30.22	6.40			6517	5.90
19	25.57	5.41			6188	5.60
20	23.20	4.91			5470	4.95
21	33.43	7.07			7407	6.70
22	31.66	6.70			7436	6.73
23	24.03	5.09			5106	4.62

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	472.53	100.00			110513	100.00