Usenet Statistics (1997/03/09 - 1997/03/09)

Average daily rate: 557.31 Mb, 127459 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	409.38	73.46
2	uunet	96.62	17.34
3	news-out.internetmci.com	51.29	9.20
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.00
5	jwwalker	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	89548	70.26
2	uunet	35748	28.05
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2143	1.68
4	newsmaster	17	0.01
5	jwwalker	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	16.24	2.91
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	10.61	1.90
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	9.73	1.75
4	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	7.09	1.27
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	6.90	1.24
6	alt.binaries.erotic.senior-citizens	6.23	1.12
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	6.00	1.08
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	5.68	1.02
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	5.40	0.97
10	alt.binaries.games	5.18	0.93
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	4.99	0.90
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.puffies	4.94	0.89
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female.anal	4.91	0.88
14	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	4.43	0.80
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.mardi-gras	4.33	0.78
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	4.22	0.76
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	4.10	0.74
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	4.02	0.72
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	3.79	0.68
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	3.65	0.65

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	biz.jobs.offered	5887	4.62
2	comp.jobs.offered	4885	3.83
3	misc.jobs.offered	4722	3.70
4	us.jobs.offered	4329	3.40
5	misc.jobs.contract	3642	2.86
6	us.jobs.contract	2971	2.33
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1871	1.47
8	ba.jobs.offered	1542	1.21
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1339	1.05
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1295	1.02
11	news.newusers.questions	1108	0.87
12	misc.jobs	1094	0.86
13	prg.jobs	1049	0.82
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	1028	0.81
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	1003	0.79
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	973	0.76
17	alt.jobs	954	0.75
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	927	0.73
19	talk.politics.misc	864	0.68
20	alt.sex	863	0.68

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	364.28	65.36
2	alt.binaries	296.52	53.20
3	alt.binaries.pictures	209.81	37.65
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	171.29	30.74
5	rec	61.00	10.94
6	alt.sex	37.38	6.71
7	comp	23.36	4.19
8	alt.binaries.warez	19.78	3.55
9	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	17.50	3.14
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	16.11	2.89
11	misc	12.85	2.31
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	11.43	2.05
13	alt.binaries.sounds	10.88	1.95
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	10.61	1.90
15	rec.arts	10.58	1.90
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	10.53	1.89
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	10.07	1.81
18	alt.binaries.erotica	10.06	1.80
19	rec.games	9.80	1.76
20	alt.fan	9.61	1.72

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	161677	126.85
2	alt.binaries	72347	56.76
3	alt.binaries.pictures	57757	45.31
4	alt.sex	53007	41.59
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	45787	35.92
6	rec	39271	30.81
7	comp	22834	17.92
8	misc	16142	12.67
9	alt.sex.fetish	10081	7.91
10	misc.jobs	9947	7.80
11	us	8951	7.02
12	biz	8692	6.82
13	us.jobs	8668	6.80
14	rec.arts	6708	5.26
15	comp.sys	6378	5.00
16	biz.jobs	6102	4.79
17	biz.jobs.offered	5900	4.63
18	tw	5812	4.56
19	tw.bbs	5805	4.55
20	alt.fan	5719	4.49

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/09	550.69	100.00			125944	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	0.00	0.00			3	0.00
01	29.54	5.37			3469	2.75
02	13.38	2.43			2958	2.35
03	17.28	3.14			3868	3.07
04	17.84	3.24			3726	2.96
05	21.02	3.82			5717	4.54
06	28.66	5.20			6706	5.32
07	24.37	4.43			6241	4.96
08	25.54	4.64			5811	4.61
09	22.52	4.09			5624	4.47
10	15.25	2.77			5716	4.54
11	27.04	4.91			5910	4.69
12	27.61	5.01			5118	4.06
13	24.49	4.45			5491	4.36
14	26.09	4.74			5355	4.25
15	21.64	3.93			5271	4.19
16	26.48	4.81			6226	4.94
17	24.20	4.40			6087	4.83
18	23.59	4.28			5905	4.69
19	17.73	3.22			5266	4.18
20	16.46	2.99			5376	4.27
21	26.15	4.75			6516	5.17
22	38.27	6.95			7619	6.05
23	35.51	6.45			5965	4.74

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	550.69	100.00			125944	100.00