Usenet Statistics (1997/03/23 - 1997/03/23)

Average daily rate: 513.06 Mb, 143557 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	354.48	69.09
2	uunet	88.85	17.32
3	news-out.internetmci.com	46.43	9.05
4	repo.dsuper.net	23.28	4.54
5	newsmaster	0.02	0.00
6	jwwalker	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	102806	71.61
2	uunet	36127	25.17
3	repo.dsuper.net	2990	2.08
4	news-out.internetmci.com	1615	1.13
5	newsmaster	18	0.01
6	jwwalker	1	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.warez.ibm-pc	17.59	3.43
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	7.47	1.46
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	7.39	1.44
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	7.29	1.42
5	misc.jobs.offered	6.69	1.30
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	5.42	1.06
7	alt.binaries.games	5.39	1.05
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	4.87	0.95
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	4.64	0.90
10	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	4.56	0.89
11	alt.binaries.mac.applications	4.46	0.87
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials	4.23	0.82
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.lesbians	4.16	0.81
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	3.99	0.78
15	us.jobs.offered	3.92	0.76
16	alt.sex.pictures	3.90	0.76
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	3.88	0.76
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	3.51	0.68
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	3.42	0.67
20	alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities	3.28	0.64

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	6952	4.84
2	us.jobs.offered	6502	4.53
3	biz.jobs.offered	4639	3.23
4	ba.jobs.offered	4310	3.00
5	comp.jobs.offered	3815	2.66
6	alt.jobs	3072	2.14
7	misc.jobs.contract	2271	1.58
8	us.jobs	2219	1.55
9	misc.jobs	2123	1.48
10	prg.jobs	1627	1.13
11	us.jobs.contract	1488	1.04
12	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	1411	0.98
13	jobs.offered	1375	0.96
14	ba.jobs	1211	0.84
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1159	0.81
16	news.newusers.questions	1148	0.80
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1056	0.74
18	talk.politics.misc	963	0.67
19	comp.jobs	907	0.63
20	ba.jobs.direct	853	0.59

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	307.55	59.94
2	alt.binaries	232.45	45.31
3	alt.binaries.pictures	171.28	33.38
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	129.63	25.27
5	rec	70.85	13.81
6	alt.sex	43.71	8.52
7	comp	30.07	5.86
8	alt.binaries.warez	22.00	4.29
9	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	20.72	4.04
10	misc	17.87	3.48
11	rec.arts	12.24	2.39
12	rec.games	11.63	2.27
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	11.25	2.19
14	alt.fan	9.46	1.84
15	comp.sys	9.43	1.84
16	misc.jobs	9.16	1.78
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic	8.72	1.70
18	alt.sex.fetish	8.47	1.65
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	8.44	1.64
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	7.72	1.50

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	151562	105.58
2	alt.binaries	55638	38.76
3	alt.sex	52079	36.28
4	rec	47419	33.03
5	alt.binaries.pictures	43967	30.63
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	33387	23.26
7	comp	27433	19.11
8	misc	20008	13.94
9	misc.jobs	12490	8.70
10	us	11933	8.31
11	us.jobs	11567	8.06
12	alt.sex.fetish	9863	6.87
13	biz	8651	6.03
14	comp.sys	7928	5.52
15	rec.arts	7887	5.49
16	ba	7329	5.11
17	misc.jobs.offered	7143	4.98
18	us.jobs.offered	6888	4.80
19	ba.jobs	6843	4.77
20	alt.fan	6181	4.31

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/23	513.04	100.00			143553	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	20.72	4.04			5765	4.02
01	10.73	2.09			3570	2.49
02	16.97	3.31			3538	2.46
03	20.92	4.08			6683	4.66
04	17.08	3.33			4633	3.23
05	38.30	7.47			6782	4.72
06	24.31	4.74			7118	4.96
07	21.05	4.10			4641	3.23
08	25.04	4.88			7804	5.44
09	24.58	4.79			7355	5.12
10	32.10	6.26			6911	4.81
11	26.91	5.25			6282	4.38
12	24.48	4.77			5432	3.78
13	22.24	4.33			5850	4.08
14	23.36	4.55			6359	4.43
15	26.74	5.21			7456	5.19
16	17.68	3.45			5836	4.07
17	18.70	3.65			5910	4.12
18	18.30	3.57			6944	4.84
19	14.60	2.85			6168	4.30
20	15.80	3.08			6098	4.25
21	17.62	3.43			5712	3.98
22	17.36	3.38			5268	3.67
23	17.44	3.40			5438	3.79

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	513.04	100.00			143553	100.00