Usenet Statistics (1997/03/24 - 1997/03/24)

Average daily rate: 323.16 Mb, 119755 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	225.51	69.78
2	uunet	56.93	17.62
3	news-out.internetmci.com	26.23	8.12
4	repo.dsuper.net	14.47	4.48
5	newsmaster	0.02	0.01
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	91452	76.37
2	uunet	24663	20.59
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2029	1.69
4	repo.dsuper.net	1597	1.33
5	newsmaster	14	0.01
6	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	11.18	3.46
2	misc.jobs.offered	9.16	2.84
3	alt.binaries.games	5.35	1.66
4	biz.jobs.offered	4.31	1.33
5	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	4.19	1.30
6	alt.binaries.mac.applications	3.83	1.19
7	us.jobs.offered	3.46	1.07
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	3.38	1.05
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.33	1.03
10	alt.jobs	3.31	1.02
11	us.jobs	2.67	0.83
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	2.66	0.82
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.18	0.68
14	ba.jobs.offered	1.84	0.57
15	alt.fan.julia-hayes	1.83	0.57
16	alt.sex.pictures	1.83	0.57
17	rec.music.beatles	1.73	0.54
18	misc.jobs.contract	1.60	0.49
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	1.56	0.48
20	alt.sex.stories	1.54	0.48

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	11029	9.21
2	us.jobs.offered	7010	5.85
3	biz.jobs.offered	6464	5.40
4	alt.jobs	3975	3.32
5	us.jobs	3748	3.13
6	misc.jobs.contract	3143	2.62
7	ba.jobs.offered	2813	2.35
8	comp.jobs.offered	2794	2.33
9	prg.jobs	2360	1.97
10	us.jobs.contract	2263	1.89
11	comp.jobs	2102	1.76
12	misc.jobs	1863	1.56
13	jobs.offered	1531	1.28
14	alt.sex	900	0.75
15	talk.politics.misc	897	0.75
16	tx.jobs	877	0.73
17	nyc.jobs.offered	858	0.72
18	news.newusers.questions	819	0.68
19	nj.jobs	757	0.63
20	alt.sex.pictures	726	0.61

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	141.86	43.90
2	alt.binaries	92.77	28.71
3	alt.binaries.pictures	59.20	18.32
4	rec	58.75	18.18
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	42.75	13.23
6	comp	26.37	8.16
7	alt.sex	25.39	7.86
8	misc	19.14	5.92
9	alt.binaries.warez	12.55	3.88
10	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	12.09	3.74
11	misc.jobs	11.96	3.70
12	rec.games	9.91	3.07
13	misc.jobs.offered	9.23	2.86
14	rec.arts	9.03	2.79
15	us	8.15	2.52
16	rec.music	8.02	2.48
17	us.jobs	7.97	2.47
18	comp.sys	7.42	2.30
19	alt.fan	6.91	2.14
20	biz	6.85	2.12

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	112721	94.13
2	alt.sex	62972	52.58
3	rec	38391	32.06
4	comp	24897	20.79
5	misc	22961	19.17
6	misc.jobs	16931	14.14
7	alt.binaries	15964	13.33
8	us	14469	12.08
9	us.jobs	14220	11.87
10	alt.sex.fetish	12839	10.72
11	alt.binaries.pictures	12783	10.67
12	misc.jobs.offered	11167	9.33
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	9313	7.78
14	biz	9010	7.52
15	us.jobs.offered	7399	6.18
16	biz.jobs	6800	5.68
17	biz.jobs.offered	6497	5.43
18	comp.sys	6384	5.33
19	rec.arts	5906	4.93
20	microsoft	5554	4.64

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/24	323.14	100.00			119750	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	38.56	11.93			6470	5.40
01	18.77	5.81			4649	3.88
02	2.54	0.79			1312	1.10
03	6.10	1.89			2069	1.73
04	12.29	3.80			3778	3.15
05	12.48	3.86			5385	4.50
06	11.50	3.56			5611	4.69
07	11.57	3.58			5286	4.41
08	10.12	3.13			5149	4.30
09	13.27	4.11			5436	4.54
10	12.87	3.98			5270	4.40
11	13.40	4.15			5530	4.62
12	11.70	3.62			4816	4.02
13	11.18	3.46			4578	3.82
14	11.68	3.61			5087	4.25
15	10.17	3.15			4943	4.13
16	11.79	3.65			4964	4.15
17	13.56	4.20			5015	4.19
18	14.12	4.37			5496	4.59
19	13.21	4.09			5204	4.35
20	14.38	4.45			5592	4.67
21	16.81	5.20			6058	5.06
22	15.91	4.92			6128	5.12
23	15.18	4.70			5924	4.95

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Monday	323.14	100.00			119750	100.00