Usenet Statistics (1997/03/22 - 1997/03/22)

Average daily rate: 393.60 Mb, 90305 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	276.50	70.25
2	uunet	70.25	17.85
3	news-out.internetmci.com	34.88	8.86
4	repo.dsuper.net	11.97	3.04
5	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
6	skydive.mill.net	0.00	0.00
7	ip-36.sb.net	0.00	0.00
8	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	59545	65.94
2	uunet	26317	29.14
3	repo.dsuper.net	2887	3.20
4	news-out.internetmci.com	1549	1.72
5	newsmaster	4	0.00
6	ip-36.sb.net	1	0.00
7	skydive.mill.net	1	0.00
8	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	8.24	2.09
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	6.42	1.63
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	5.66	1.44
4	alt.binaries.games	5.54	1.41
5	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	5.25	1.33
6	alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities	5.19	1.32
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	4.84	1.23
8	alt.binaries.mac.applications	4.37	1.11
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	4.12	1.05
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.biker-chicks	4.03	1.02
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	3.85	0.98
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	3.82	0.97
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	3.76	0.96
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	3.55	0.90
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bestiality	3.16	0.80
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	3.16	0.80
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	3.15	0.80
18	misc.jobs.offered	2.90	0.74
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	2.89	0.73
20	alt.sex.fetish.wrestling	2.53	0.64

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	4672	5.17
2	misc.jobs.offered	4388	4.86
3	ba.jobs.offered	3155	3.49
4	biz.jobs.offered	2794	3.09
5	comp.jobs.offered	2083	2.31
6	misc.jobs.contract	1573	1.74
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1244	1.38
8	alt.jobs	1224	1.36
9	us.jobs.contract	1222	1.35
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	928	1.03
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	917	1.02
12	us.jobs	896	0.99
13	prg.jobs	866	0.96
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	851	0.94
15	alt.sex.pictures.female	736	0.82
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	735	0.81
17	alt.sex.pictures	693	0.77
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	665	0.74
19	news.newusers.questions	661	0.73
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	645	0.71

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	271.47	68.97
2	alt.binaries	220.45	56.01
3	alt.binaries.pictures	166.29	42.25
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	125.68	31.93
5	rec	38.84	9.87
6	alt.sex	32.12	8.16
7	comp	16.14	4.10
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	10.91	2.77
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	10.36	2.63
10	misc	10.09	2.56
11	alt.binaries.warez	9.85	2.50
12	alt.binaries.multimedia	9.15	2.32
13	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	9.15	2.32
14	alt.sex.fetish	8.11	2.06
15	rec.arts	6.69	1.70
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	6.42	1.63
17	rec.games	6.31	1.60
18	alt.binaries.mac	5.91	1.50
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	5.87	1.49
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	5.83	1.48

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	137508	152.27
2	alt.binaries	59033	65.37
3	alt.sex	52230	57.84
4	alt.binaries.pictures	47584	52.69
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	36781	40.73
6	rec	25907	28.69
7	comp	14713	16.29
8	misc	11777	13.04
9	alt.sex.fetish	10816	11.98
10	us	7572	8.38
11	us.jobs	7334	8.12
12	misc.jobs	6965	7.71
13	biz	5383	5.96
14	us.jobs.offered	4772	5.29
15	alt.binaries.erotica	4592	5.09
16	misc.jobs.offered	4437	4.91
17	rec.arts	4422	4.90
18	comp.sys	4409	4.88
19	ba	4043	4.48
20	ba.jobs	3853	4.27

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/22	393.55	100.00			90293	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	33.19	8.43			4258	4.72
01	15.32	3.89			2916	3.23
02	16.46	4.18			2104	2.33
03	11.39	2.89			3235	3.58
04	3.88	0.99			799	0.88
05	5.53	1.41			1498	1.66
06	7.64	1.94			1773	1.96
07	5.81	1.48			1334	1.48
08	6.30	1.60			1456	1.61
09	7.08	1.80			1888	2.09
10	23.81	6.05			5718	6.33
11	15.51	3.94			4489	4.97
12	16.68	4.24			3509	3.89
13	14.83	3.77			2447	2.71
14	16.36	4.16			3190	3.53
15	14.13	3.59			3957	4.38
16	23.40	5.95			5310	5.88
17	21.26	5.40			5478	6.07
18	24.28	6.17			5641	6.25
19	15.31	3.89			5461	6.05
20	19.39	4.93			5480	6.07
21	29.96	7.61			5914	6.55
22	22.69	5.77			5857	6.49
23	23.34	5.93			6581	7.29

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	393.55	100.00			90293	100.00