Usenet Statistics (1997/04/02 - 1997/04/02)

Average daily rate: 1068.20 Mb, 200860 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	651.35	60.98
2	uunet	265.73	24.88
3	news-out.internetmci.com	151.07	14.14
4	newsmaster	0.06	0.01
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	131137	65.29
2	uunet	60279	30.01
3	news-out.internetmci.com	9401	4.68
4	newsmaster	41	0.02
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	56.46	5.29
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	54.29	5.08
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	20.69	1.94
4	alt.sex.fetish.fa	19.67	1.84
5	alt.binaries.games.encrypted	17.82	1.67
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	17.44	1.63
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.black.females	12.00	1.12
8	alt.binaries.mac.applications	11.56	1.08
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	11.55	1.08
10	comp.mail.maps	11.35	1.06
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	10.36	0.97
12	uk.games.misc	9.50	0.89
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	9.06	0.85
14	misc.jobs.offered	8.09	0.76
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	7.93	0.74
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons	7.88	0.74
17	pl.rec.gry.komputerowe	7.72	0.72
18	es.rec.juegos.estrategia	7.71	0.72
19	de.alt.binaries.pictures.female	7.59	0.71
20	alt.mag.playboy	7.37	0.69

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	14131	7.04
2	us.jobs.offered	13312	6.63
3	biz.jobs.offered	6887	3.43
4	ba.jobs.offered	6271	3.12
5	misc.jobs.contract	6172	3.07
6	us.jobs.contract	4539	2.26
7	alt.jobs	3886	1.93
8	prg.jobs	3477	1.73
9	us.jobs	3313	1.65
10	misc.jobs	3102	1.54
11	comp.jobs.offered	2799	1.39
12	ba.jobs	1616	0.80
13	comp.jobs	1542	0.77
14	jobs.offered	1512	0.75
15	news.newusers.questions	1447	0.72
16	ba.jobs.contract	1421	0.71
17	us.jobs.misc	1231	0.61
18	ba.jobs.direct	1139	0.57
19	alt.sex	1107	0.55
20	tx.jobs	1103	0.55

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	619.78	58.02
2	alt.binaries	440.27	41.22
3	alt.binaries.pictures	225.81	21.14
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	162.67	15.23
5	alt.sex	116.36	10.89
6	rec	102.83	9.63
7	alt.binaries.games	75.05	7.03
8	comp	64.71	6.06
9	alt.binaries.multimedia	54.58	5.11
10	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	54.57	5.11
11	alt.sex.fetish	40.01	3.75
12	de	30.73	2.88
13	alt.binaries.warez	29.13	2.73
14	misc	26.36	2.47
15	alt.fan	25.39	2.38
16	rec.games	24.42	2.29
17	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	23.52	2.20
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic	21.49	2.01
19	de.alt	20.12	1.88
20	alt.sex.fetish.fa	19.67	1.84

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	135058	67.24
2	rec	64398	32.06
3	alt.sex	53920	26.84
4	comp	38214	19.03
5	misc	35577	17.71
6	misc.jobs	24828	12.36
7	us	23744	11.82
8	us.jobs	23312	11.61
9	alt.binaries	23140	11.52
10	alt.binaries.pictures	19187	9.55
11	misc.jobs.offered	14261	7.10
12	us.jobs.offered	13662	6.80
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	13459	6.70
14	biz	12694	6.32
15	ba	11391	5.67
16	comp.sys	11035	5.49
17	rec.arts	10856	5.41
18	ba.jobs	10645	5.30
19	alt.sex.fetish	9520	4.74
20	microsoft	9283	4.62

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/04/02	1052.98	100.00			197999	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	45.86	4.36			2699	1.36
01	37.07	3.52			7173	3.62
02	26.44	2.51			8681	4.38
03	30.36	2.88			8686	4.39
04	29.54	2.81			8695	4.39
05	24.68	2.34			8699	4.39
06	25.91	2.46			8663	4.38
07	22.48	2.13			8748	4.42
08	26.29	2.50			8694	4.39
09	26.77	2.54			8797	4.44
10	25.36	2.41			8803	4.45
11	25.09	2.38			8814	4.45
12	21.70	2.06			8674	4.38
13	26.43	2.51			8593	4.34
14	21.89	2.08			8601	4.34
15	21.07	2.00			8640	4.36
16	21.21	2.01			8476	4.28
17	35.44	3.37			8465	4.28
18	59.84	5.68			8308	4.20
19	83.38	7.92			8288	4.19
20	127.63	12.12			8069	4.08
21	109.70	10.42			8296	4.19
22	76.26	7.24			8385	4.23
23	102.57	9.74			8052	4.07

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Wednesday	1052.98	100.00			197999	100.00