Usenet Statistics (1997/03/21 - 1997/03/21)

Average daily rate: 374.80 Mb, 92634 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	269.21	71.83
2	uunet	65.58	17.50
3	news-out.internetmci.com	30.85	8.23
4	repo.dsuper.net	9.15	2.44
5	newsmaster	0.02	0.00
6	ren.mill.net	0.00	0.00
7	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	57741	62.33
2	uunet	31668	34.19
3	news-out.internetmci.com	1910	2.06
4	repo.dsuper.net	1301	1.40
5	newsmaster	11	0.01
6	ren.mill.net	2	0.00
7	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	6.78	1.81
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	6.40	1.71
3	misc.jobs.offered	5.78	1.54
4	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	5.40	1.44
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	5.06	1.35
6	alt.sex.enemas	4.93	1.32
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials	4.89	1.31
8	alt.binaries.fonts	4.68	1.25
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	4.59	1.23
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.biker-chicks	3.96	1.06
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	3.90	1.04
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	3.64	0.97
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.62	0.97
14	alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities	3.61	0.96
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	3.51	0.94
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	3.50	0.93
17	alt.binaries.mac.applications	3.38	0.90
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pregnant	3.35	0.89
19	biz.jobs.offered	3.09	0.82
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.93	0.78

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	6923	7.47
2	us.jobs.offered	6206	6.70
3	biz.jobs.offered	5664	6.11
4	comp.jobs.offered	4747	5.12
5	misc.jobs.contract	3220	3.48
6	ba.jobs.offered	3203	3.46
7	us.jobs.contract	2553	2.76
8	alt.jobs	1995	2.15
9	us.jobs	1353	1.46
10	prg.jobs	1256	1.36
11	misc.jobs	1075	1.16
12	alt.sex.enemas	881	0.95
13	comp.jobs	829	0.89
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	774	0.84
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	683	0.74
16	jobs.offered	635	0.69
17	tx.jobs	604	0.65
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	587	0.63
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	575	0.62
20	news.newusers.questions	566	0.61

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	242.46	64.69
2	alt.binaries	194.94	52.01
3	alt.binaries.pictures	141.84	37.84
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	108.13	28.85
5	rec	37.07	9.89
6	alt.sex	28.88	7.70
7	comp	17.23	4.60
8	misc	12.58	3.36
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	8.58	2.29
10	misc.jobs	8.09	2.16
11	alt.binaries.warez	7.61	2.03
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	7.55	2.01
13	alt.sex.fetish	7.30	1.95
14	alt.binaries.multimedia	6.94	1.85
15	alt.binaries.games	6.83	1.82
16	rec.games	6.76	1.80
17	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	6.58	1.75
18	rec.arts	6.44	1.72
19	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.29	1.68
20	alt.binaries.sounds	6.19	1.65

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	97543	105.30
2	alt.binaries	41588	44.90
3	alt.binaries.pictures	34153	36.87
4	alt.sex	31711	34.23
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	25777	27.83
6	rec	24339	26.27
7	comp	18172	19.62
8	misc	15829	17.09
9	misc.jobs	11833	12.77
10	us	11226	12.12
11	us.jobs	11037	11.92
12	biz	8384	9.05
13	misc.jobs.offered	7010	7.57
14	us.jobs.offered	6397	6.91
15	biz.jobs	6311	6.81
16	biz.jobs.offered	6055	6.54
17	alt.sex.fetish	5814	6.28
18	comp.jobs	5633	6.08
19	comp.jobs.offered	4747	5.12
20	ba	4583	4.95

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/21	374.78	100.00			92629	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	16.64	4.44			4392	4.74
01	10.85	2.89			2615	2.82
02	2.51	0.67			705	0.76
03	5.05	1.35			1075	1.16
04	15.95	4.26			2698	2.91
05	11.35	3.03			3098	3.34
06	17.83	4.76			4350	4.70
07	21.61	5.77			4754	5.13
08	16.04	4.28			4585	4.95
09	19.07	5.09			5054	5.46
10	15.76	4.20			4590	4.96
11	16.52	4.41			4543	4.90
12	14.96	3.99			4174	4.51
13	14.08	3.76			4242	4.58
14	13.14	3.51			4003	4.32
15	13.27	3.54			3597	3.88
16	15.02	4.01			3547	3.83
17	14.78	3.94			3305	3.57
18	17.16	4.58			4253	4.59
19	17.85	4.76			4198	4.53
20	16.90	4.51			4289	4.63
21	19.54	5.21			4669	5.04
22	26.37	7.03			5636	6.08
23	22.54	6.01			4257	4.60

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Friday	374.78	100.00			92629	100.00