Usenet Statistics (1997/03/13 - 1997/03/13)

Average daily rate: 414.16 Mb, 109465 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	304.80	73.59
2	uunet	72.21	17.44
3	news-out.internetmci.com	37.13	8.97
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	73617	67.25
2	uunet	34051	31.11
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1784	1.63
4	newsmaster	12	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	13.60	3.28
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	11.85	2.86
3	alt.binaries.games	7.43	1.79
4	alt.binaries.fitness.centerfolds	6.12	1.48
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.indian-asian	5.97	1.44
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.asian-indian	5.70	1.38
7	alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities	5.29	1.28
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	5.19	1.25
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	4.93	1.19
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	4.74	1.15
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	4.52	1.09
12	alt.binaries.mac.applications	4.48	1.08
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	4.41	1.06
14	us.jobs.offered	3.96	0.96
15	misc.jobs.offered	3.94	0.95
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	3.93	0.95
17	alt.binaries.mac.games	3.86	0.93
18	ba.jobs.offered	3.65	0.88
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	3.34	0.81
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	2.97	0.72

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	6276	5.73
2	misc.jobs.offered	5618	5.13
3	ba.jobs.offered	5102	4.66
4	biz.jobs.offered	3271	2.99
5	comp.jobs.offered	2506	2.29
6	alt.jobs	1948	1.78
7	misc.jobs.contract	1922	1.76
8	us.jobs	1693	1.55
9	misc.jobs	1419	1.30
10	us.jobs.contract	1246	1.14
11	jobs.offered	1125	1.03
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	993	0.91
13	prg.jobs	945	0.86
14	la.jobs	922	0.84
15	alt.sex.erotica.marketplace	834	0.76
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	811	0.74
17	misc.entrepreneurs	810	0.74
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	804	0.73
19	news.newusers.questions	798	0.73
20	alt.business.multi-level	682	0.62

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	255.52	61.69
2	alt.binaries	208.25	50.28
3	alt.binaries.pictures	141.95	34.27
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	105.24	25.41
5	rec	48.95	11.82
6	alt.sex	25.66	6.20
7	comp	23.24	5.61
8	alt.binaries.warez	14.03	3.39
9	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	13.86	3.35
10	misc	12.38	2.99
11	alt.binaries.multimedia	11.99	2.89
12	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	11.92	2.88
13	alt.fan	8.58	2.07
14	rec.games	8.39	2.02
15	alt.binaries.games	8.37	2.02
16	rec.arts	8.35	2.02
17	alt.binaries.mac	8.34	2.01
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	8.04	1.94
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	6.81	1.64
20	comp.sys	6.65	1.61

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	110102	100.58
2	alt.binaries	47477	43.37
3	alt.binaries.pictures	38134	34.84
4	rec	33451	30.56
5	alt.sex	28710	26.23
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	28328	25.88
7	comp	20775	18.98
8	misc	15652	14.30
9	us	10253	9.37
10	us.jobs	10072	9.20
11	misc.jobs	9681	8.84
12	ba	6764	6.18
13	biz	6719	6.14
14	us.jobs.offered	6561	5.99
15	ba.jobs	6302	5.76
16	misc.jobs.offered	5707	5.21
17	rec.arts	5683	5.19
18	comp.sys	5645	5.16
19	alt.fan	5509	5.03
20	alt.sex.fetish	5408	4.94

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/13	414.13	100.00			109458	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	25.04	6.05			6213	5.68
01	15.93	3.85			4592	4.20
02	6.60	1.59			1976	1.81
03	11.30	2.73			3925	3.59
04	11.70	2.83			3348	3.06
05	10.41	2.51			3196	2.92
06	7.90	1.91			2657	2.43
07	7.45	1.80			2590	2.37
08	15.97	3.86			5639	5.15
09	19.34	4.67			4660	4.26
10	18.83	4.55			5943	5.43
11	16.59	4.01			4192	3.83
12	11.71	2.83			3214	2.94
13	17.91	4.33			4713	4.31
14	18.05	4.36			4864	4.44
15	13.62	3.29			4191	3.83
16	17.89	4.32			5318	4.86
17	19.10	4.61			4994	4.56
18	25.48	6.15			5307	4.85
19	19.98	4.83			4892	4.47
20	20.33	4.91			4980	4.55
21	31.40	7.58			5568	5.09
22	25.26	6.10			5593	5.11
23	26.32	6.36			6893	6.30

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Thursday	414.13	100.00			109458	100.00