Usenet Statistics (1997/03/12 - 1997/03/12)

Average daily rate: 369.67 Mb, 103202 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	275.36	74.49
2	uunet	63.74	17.24
3	news-out.internetmci.com	30.55	8.26
4	newsmaster	0.02	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	72749	70.49
2	uunet	28111	27.24
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2328	2.26
4	newsmaster	13	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.games	9.11	2.46
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	7.67	2.08
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.62	2.06
4	alt.binaries.fitness.centerfolds	6.40	1.73
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gymnast-girls	4.87	1.32
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	4.38	1.18
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	4.17	1.13
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.00	1.08
9	alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities	3.91	1.06
10	misc.jobs.offered	3.76	1.02
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.oral	3.43	0.93
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	3.36	0.91
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	3.06	0.83
14	us.jobs.offered	2.94	0.79
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.brunette	2.91	0.79
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	2.69	0.73
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.43	0.66
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	2.42	0.65
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	2.39	0.65
20	ba.jobs.offered	2.30	0.62

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	6190	6.00
2	misc.jobs.offered	5627	5.45
3	ba.jobs.offered	4115	3.99
4	biz.jobs.offered	3492	3.38
5	alt.jobs	2474	2.40
6	comp.jobs.offered	2455	2.38
7	us.jobs	2268	2.20
8	misc.jobs.contract	1786	1.73
9	prg.jobs	1345	1.30
10	us.jobs.contract	1284	1.24
11	misc.jobs	1024	0.99
12	comp.jobs	874	0.85
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	846	0.82
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	774	0.75
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	715	0.69
16	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	704	0.68
17	news.newusers.questions	698	0.68
18	misc.entrepreneurs	659	0.64
19	alt.sex	634	0.61
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	626	0.61

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	222.15	60.09
2	alt.binaries	179.73	48.62
3	alt.binaries.pictures	121.79	32.95
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	91.14	24.65
5	rec	45.76	12.38
6	comp	22.90	6.19
7	alt.sex	21.06	5.70
8	alt.binaries.multimedia	11.19	3.03
9	misc	10.99	2.97
10	alt.binaries.warez	10.21	2.76
11	alt.binaries.games	9.15	2.48
12	rec.arts	8.59	2.32
13	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	8.30	2.25
14	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	8.16	2.21
15	rec.games	7.68	2.08
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	7.34	1.99
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	6.90	1.87
18	comp.sys	6.54	1.77
19	alt.fan	6.54	1.77
20	alt.binaries.fitness.centerfolds	6.40	1.73

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	122461	118.66
2	alt.binaries	49512	47.98
3	alt.sex	41918	40.62
4	alt.binaries.pictures	40180	38.93
5	rec	31590	30.61
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	30554	29.61
7	comp	20238	19.61
8	misc	14209	13.77
9	us	11009	10.67
10	us.jobs	10765	10.43
11	misc.jobs	8999	8.72
12	alt.sex.fetish	8221	7.97
13	biz	6350	6.15
14	us.jobs.offered	6323	6.13
15	ba	5924	5.74
16	misc.jobs.offered	5678	5.50
17	rec.arts	5574	5.40
18	comp.sys	5391	5.22
19	ba.jobs	5328	5.16
20	biz.jobs	4226	4.10

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/12	369.65	100.00			103199	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	24.02	6.50			6624	6.42
01	20.00	5.41			4772	4.62
02	5.58	1.51			1766	1.71
03	9.84	2.66			3076	2.98
04	5.81	1.57			2535	2.46
05	10.12	2.74			3106	3.01
06	9.74	2.63			3408	3.30
07	15.04	4.07			2520	2.44
08	11.33	3.07			4112	3.98
09	14.63	3.96			4451	4.31
10	10.99	2.97			3593	3.48
11	10.87	2.94			3763	3.65
12	12.68	3.43			3461	3.35
13	13.41	3.63			4093	3.97
14	19.17	5.19			5699	5.52
15	13.50	3.65			4103	3.98
16	18.32	4.96			5542	5.37
17	18.22	4.93			5203	5.04
18	22.37	6.05			5387	5.22
19	19.52	5.28			5139	4.98
20	22.21	6.01			4873	4.72
21	15.97	4.32			4477	4.34
22	22.63	6.12			5647	5.47
23	23.70	6.41			5849	5.67

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	369.65	100.00			103199	100.00