Usenet Statistics (1997/03/15 - 1997/03/15)

Average daily rate: 363.89 Mb, 108836 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	260.12	71.48
2	uunet	69.06	18.98
3	news-out.internetmci.com	34.70	9.53
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	75359	69.24
2	uunet	31514	28.96
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1949	1.79
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.multimedia.erotica	11.33	3.11
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gymnast-girls	6.16	1.69
3	alt.binaries.games	5.95	1.64
4	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	5.79	1.59
5	misc.jobs.offered	5.75	1.58
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	4.63	1.27
7	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	4.39	1.21
8	alt.binaries.sounds.music	4.35	1.19
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.anime	4.00	1.10
10	us.jobs.offered	3.65	1.00
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	3.39	0.93
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	3.07	0.84
13	bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	3.03	0.83
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.78	0.76
15	ba.jobs.offered	2.62	0.72
16	biz.jobs.offered	2.50	0.69
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	2.35	0.65
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts.small	2.32	0.64
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	2.21	0.61
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	2.00	0.55

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	7301	6.71
2	us.jobs.offered	7073	6.50
3	biz.jobs.offered	5482	5.04
4	comp.jobs.offered	4404	4.05
5	ba.jobs.offered	3914	3.60
6	misc.jobs.contract	3059	2.81
7	us.jobs.contract	2590	2.38
8	alt.jobs	1911	1.76
9	us.jobs	1451	1.33
10	prg.jobs	1158	1.06
11	misc.jobs	981	0.90
12	la.jobs	944	0.87
13	news.newusers.questions	909	0.84
14	comp.jobs	828	0.76
15	talk.politics.misc	737	0.68
16	jobs.offered	718	0.66
17	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	710	0.65
18	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	647	0.59
19	tx.jobs	643	0.59
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	628	0.58

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	197.33	54.23
2	alt.binaries	150.33	41.31
3	alt.binaries.pictures	102.48	28.16
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	78.67	21.62
5	rec	57.45	15.79
6	comp	25.63	7.04
7	alt.sex	25.32	6.96
8	misc	15.32	4.21
9	alt.binaries.multimedia	11.39	3.13
10	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	11.37	3.12
11	rec.arts	11.26	3.09
12	alt.binaries.sounds	10.27	2.82
13	rec.games	9.64	2.65
14	misc.jobs	8.01	2.20
15	comp.sys	7.68	2.11
16	alt.binaries.warez	7.27	2.00
17	alt.fan	7.00	1.92
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	6.83	1.88
19	us	6.20	1.71
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gymnast-girls	6.16	1.69

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	97412	89.50
2	rec	38756	35.61
3	alt.binaries	34690	31.87
4	alt.sex	29540	27.14
5	alt.binaries.pictures	27700	25.45
6	comp	24067	22.11
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	21255	19.53
8	misc	17993	16.53
9	us	12315	11.32
10	us.jobs	12059	11.08
11	misc.jobs	11932	10.96
12	biz	8015	7.36
13	misc.jobs.offered	7351	6.75
14	us.jobs.offered	7216	6.63
15	rec.arts	6891	6.33
16	comp.sys	6537	6.01
17	biz.jobs	6047	5.56
18	alt.fan	5859	5.38
19	biz.jobs.offered	5705	5.24
20	alt.sex.fetish	5643	5.18

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/15	363.88	100.00			108834	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	17.10	4.70			6546	6.01
01	14.69	4.04			5561	5.11
02	10.62	2.92			3789	3.48
03	10.65	2.93			4445	4.08
04	7.34	2.02			2872	2.64
05	10.30	2.83			3203	2.94
06	5.08	1.40			1472	1.35
07	2.87	0.79			822	0.76
08	9.73	2.68			2565	2.36
09	15.08	4.15			4048	3.72
10	21.21	5.83			5786	5.32
11	23.23	6.38			6246	5.74
12	23.54	6.47			6381	5.86
13	21.46	5.90			6294	5.78
14	16.04	4.41			4836	4.44
15	14.44	3.97			4518	4.15
16	16.93	4.65			4372	4.02
17	16.89	4.64			4657	4.28
18	18.68	5.13			5180	4.76
19	21.66	5.95			5398	4.96
20	16.99	4.67			5131	4.71
21	15.75	4.33			4793	4.40
22	16.70	4.59			5106	4.69
23	16.90	4.64			4813	4.42

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	363.88	100.00			108834	100.00