Usenet Statistics (1997/03/17 - 1997/03/17)

Average daily rate: 444.07 Mb, 125743 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	328.27	73.92
2	uunet	81.58	18.37
3	news-out.internetmci.com	34.20	7.70
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	88892	70.69
2	uunet	34677	27.58
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2166	1.72
4	newsmaster	8	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.blondes	16.15	3.64
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	10.74	2.42
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	10.49	2.36
4	misc.jobs.offered	5.36	1.21
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	4.52	1.02
6	alt.binaries.games	4.32	0.97
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	4.23	0.95
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	3.98	0.90
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.74	0.84
10	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	3.44	0.77
11	es.alt.binarios.sexo	3.02	0.68
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	2.99	0.67
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.brunette	2.94	0.66
14	alt.binaries.erotic.senior-citizens	2.83	0.64
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	2.75	0.62
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob	2.70	0.61
17	alt.sex.pictures	2.68	0.60
18	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	2.62	0.59
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	2.60	0.59
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	2.57	0.58

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	6072	4.83
2	us.jobs.offered	4339	3.45
3	biz.jobs.offered	3329	2.65
4	ba.jobs.offered	2100	1.67
5	misc.jobs.contract	1941	1.54
6	alt.jobs	1854	1.47
7	comp.jobs.offered	1851	1.47
8	prg.jobs	1691	1.34
9	us.jobs	1495	1.19
10	us.jobs.contract	1454	1.16
11	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	1241	0.99
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	1231	0.98
13	comp.jobs	1177	0.94
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1052	0.84
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1035	0.82
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	969	0.77
17	misc.jobs	909	0.72
18	talk.politics.misc	907	0.72
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	870	0.69
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	830	0.66

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	267.90	60.33
2	alt.binaries	204.44	46.04
3	alt.binaries.pictures	151.09	34.02
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	119.55	26.92
5	rec	56.06	12.63
6	alt.sex	37.30	8.40
7	comp	25.70	5.79
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	16.15	3.64
9	misc	14.65	3.30
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	12.32	2.77
11	alt.binaries.warez	11.62	2.62
12	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	10.88	2.45
13	rec.arts	10.77	2.43
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	10.06	2.27
15	alt.binaries.sounds	9.48	2.14
16	rec.games	9.40	2.12
17	alt.sex.fetish	8.14	1.83
18	comp.sys	8.02	1.80
19	alt.fan	7.74	1.74
20	misc.jobs	7.13	1.61

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	147366	117.20
2	alt.binaries	59667	47.45
3	alt.binaries.pictures	47330	37.64
4	alt.sex	47173	37.52
5	rec	37840	30.09
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	35532	28.26
7	comp	23196	18.45
8	misc	15867	12.62
9	misc.jobs	9525	7.58
10	alt.sex.fetish	9386	7.46
11	us	8497	6.76
12	us.jobs	8124	6.46
13	comp.sys	7040	5.60
14	rec.arts	6771	5.39
15	biz	6283	5.00
16	misc.jobs.offered	6163	4.90
17	alt.fan	5733	4.56
18	rec.games	5060	4.02
19	soc	5010	3.98
20	alt.politics	4960	3.94

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/17	444.03	100.00			125735	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	23.35	5.26			5311	4.22
01	20.58	4.64			4667	3.71
02	10.44	2.35			2141	1.70
03	13.21	2.97			2877	2.29
04	27.63	6.22			5438	4.32
05	13.93	3.14			4467	3.55
06	19.04	4.29			4111	3.27
07	19.33	4.35			6102	4.85
08	15.58	3.51			5258	4.18
09	16.36	3.68			5511	4.38
10	19.38	4.36			6823	5.43
11	21.75	4.90			6026	4.79
12	21.58	4.86			4759	3.78
13	18.79	4.23			5034	4.00
14	14.54	3.27			4298	3.42
15	14.94	3.36			5356	4.26
16	17.38	3.91			5173	4.11
17	15.00	3.38			5262	4.18
18	13.82	3.11			4385	3.49
19	18.05	4.07			5145	4.09
20	19.28	4.34			6351	5.05
21	19.84	4.47			7632	6.07
22	31.39	7.07			7572	6.02
23	18.86	4.25			6036	4.80

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Monday	444.03	100.00			125735	100.00