Usenet Statistics (1997/03/20 - 1997/03/20)

Average daily rate: 372.07 Mb, 95233 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	313.22	84.18
2	news-out.internetmci.com	33.82	9.09
3	uunet	25.01	6.72
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	79732	83.72
2	uunet	12806	13.45
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2684	2.82
4	newsmaster	10	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	11.33	3.04
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	9.75	2.62
3	alt.binaries.fitness.centerfolds	6.90	1.85
4	alt.binaries.games	6.46	1.74
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	5.76	1.55
6	alt.binaries.mac.applications	5.17	1.39
7	alt.sex.stories	4.55	1.22
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.redheads	4.22	1.13
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	4.05	1.09
10	misc.jobs.offered	3.79	1.02
11	us.jobs.offered	3.63	0.97
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	3.61	0.97
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	3.50	0.94
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	3.46	0.93
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	3.09	0.83
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials	2.98	0.80
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.94	0.79
18	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2.63	0.71
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	2.59	0.70
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	2.54	0.68

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	6998	7.35
2	misc.jobs.offered	6616	6.95
3	biz.jobs.offered	6197	6.51
4	comp.jobs.offered	4957	5.21
5	misc.jobs.contract	3570	3.75
6	ba.jobs.offered	3134	3.29
7	us.jobs.contract	2968	3.12
8	alt.jobs	2024	2.13
9	us.jobs	1621	1.70
10	misc.jobs	1273	1.34
11	prg.jobs	1085	1.14
12	jobs.offered	1078	1.13
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	971	1.02
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	935	0.98
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	932	0.98
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	908	0.95
17	alt.sex.pictures	738	0.77
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	732	0.77
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	688	0.72
20	news.newusers.questions	680	0.71

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	247.04	66.40
2	alt.binaries	199.21	53.54
3	alt.binaries.pictures	144.90	38.94
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	114.22	30.70
5	rec	43.61	11.72
6	alt.sex	29.23	7.85
7	comp	21.20	5.70
8	misc	12.06	3.24
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	11.33	3.04
10	alt.binaries.multimedia	10.42	2.80
11	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	10.20	2.74
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	8.38	2.25
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	8.15	2.19
14	rec.arts	7.68	2.06
15	rec.games	7.57	2.04
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	7.13	1.92
17	alt.binaries.fitness.centerfolds	6.90	1.85
18	alt.binaries.fitness	6.90	1.85
19	alt.binaries.games	6.55	1.76
20	alt.fan	6.43	1.73

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	112477	118.11
2	alt.binaries	49449	51.92
3	alt.binaries.pictures	40898	42.95
4	alt.sex	38583	40.51
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	30622	32.15
6	rec	28307	29.72
7	comp	21473	22.55
8	misc	16858	17.70
9	us	12814	13.46
10	us.jobs	12644	13.28
11	misc.jobs	12312	12.93
12	biz	8518	8.94
13	alt.sex.fetish	7752	8.14
14	us.jobs.offered	7276	7.64
15	misc.jobs.offered	6704	7.04
16	biz.jobs	6667	7.00
17	biz.jobs.offered	6530	6.86
18	comp.jobs	5655	5.94
19	comp.sys	5052	5.31
20	comp.jobs.offered	4957	5.21

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/20	372.06	100.00			95230	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	30.90	8.30			4998	5.25
01	34.34	9.23			5758	6.05
02	10.16	2.73			1757	1.85
03	6.75	1.82			1611	1.69
04	7.49	2.01			2144	2.25
05	10.63	2.86			2955	3.10
06	10.87	2.92			2235	2.35
07	23.99	6.45			3796	3.99
08	22.77	6.12			4075	4.28
09	17.86	4.80			4400	4.62
10	17.75	4.77			4830	5.07
11	19.15	5.15			5169	5.43
12	12.18	3.27			3938	4.14
13	13.53	3.64			4132	4.34
14	10.48	2.82			2963	3.11
15	14.52	3.90			4591	4.82
16	17.53	4.71			5664	5.95
17	16.47	4.43			5476	5.75
18	14.70	3.95			4699	4.93
19	12.43	3.34			4094	4.30
20	11.10	2.98			3637	3.82
21	10.03	2.70			3535	3.71
22	11.21	3.01			4080	4.28
23	15.22	4.09			4693	4.93

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Thursday	372.06	100.00			95230	100.00