Usenet Statistics (1997/04/03 - 1997/04/03)

Average daily rate: 1051.01 Mb, 199226 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	612.11	58.24
2	uunet	288.82	27.48
3	news-out.internetmci.com	150.08	14.28
4	newsmaster	0.00	0.00
5	acme	0.00	0.00
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	95496	47.93
2	uunet	93951	47.16
3	news-out.internetmci.com	9774	4.91
4	newsmaster	3	0.00
5	acme	2	0.00
6	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	37.59	3.58
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	36.03	3.43
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	31.68	3.01
4	alt.binaries.mac.applications	23.49	2.23
5	alt.binaries.games.encrypted	16.42	1.56
6	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	15.18	1.44
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	14.26	1.36
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	12.34	1.17
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	12.32	1.17
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	11.02	1.05
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.black.females	10.56	1.00
12	alt.binaries.pictures.nudism	10.12	0.96
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	9.36	0.89
14	de.alt.binaries.pictures.female	9.17	0.87
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons	8.55	0.81
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob	8.30	0.79
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	8.24	0.78
18	misc.jobs.offered	7.35	0.70
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.early-teens	7.01	0.67
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pregnant	6.84	0.65

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	11856	5.95
2	misc.jobs.offered	11664	5.85
3	ba.jobs.offered	7857	3.94
4	biz.jobs.offered	5664	2.84
5	alt.jobs	3392	1.70
6	comp.jobs.offered	3368	1.69
7	us.jobs	3333	1.67
8	misc.jobs.contract	2995	1.50
9	prg.jobs	2263	1.14
10	us.jobs.contract	2262	1.14
11	misc.jobs	2115	1.06
12	jobs.offered	1755	0.88
13	comp.jobs	1576	0.79
14	la.jobs	1491	0.75
15	ba.jobs.direct	1355	0.68
16	ba.jobs	1246	0.63
17	cit.jobs	1177	0.59
18	ca.jobs	1170	0.59
19	control	1152	0.58
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1032	0.52

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	654.23	62.25
2	alt.binaries	513.10	48.82
3	alt.binaries.pictures	333.78	31.76
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	258.31	24.58
5	alt.sex	93.47	8.89
6	rec	72.37	6.89
7	alt.binaries.games	54.02	5.14
8	comp	49.17	4.68
9	alt.binaries.multimedia	37.84	3.60
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	36.72	3.49
11	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	36.04	3.43
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	32.41	3.08
13	de	32.12	3.06
14	alt.binaries.mac	26.89	2.56
15	alt.binaries.mac.applications	23.49	2.23
16	alt.sex.fetish	21.93	2.09
17	de.alt	21.74	2.07
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic	21.24	2.02
19	alt.binaries.warez	20.72	1.97
20	comp.sys	20.00	1.90

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	122958	61.72
2	alt.sex	47989	24.09
3	rec	47009	23.60
4	alt.binaries	28942	14.53
5	comp	28829	14.47
6	misc	25276	12.69
7	alt.binaries.pictures	24512	12.30
8	us	19521	9.80
9	us.jobs	19251	9.66
10	misc.jobs	17932	9.00
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	17809	8.94
12	ba	12314	6.18
13	us.jobs.offered	12212	6.13
14	misc.jobs.offered	11755	5.90
15	ba.jobs	11515	5.78
16	soc	10004	5.02
17	tw	9953	5.00
18	biz	9906	4.97
19	tw.bbs	9889	4.96
20	alt.sex.fetish	9187	4.61

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/04/03	1051.00	100.00			199224	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	51.53	4.90			8436	4.23
01	46.01	4.38			7292	3.66
02	174.05	16.56			7775	3.90
03	37.02	3.52			8872	4.45
04	50.68	4.82			8791	4.41
05	48.84	4.65			8911	4.47
06	32.89	3.13			8815	4.42
07	56.88	5.41			8665	4.35
08	30.99	2.95			8647	4.34
09	42.37	4.03			8328	4.18
10	30.45	2.90			8361	4.20
11	26.36	2.51			8539	4.29
12	37.09	3.53			8421	4.23
13	30.40	2.89			8395	4.21
14	25.32	2.41			8215	4.12
15	35.55	3.38			8282	4.16
16	34.64	3.30			8311	4.17
17	31.43	2.99			8378	4.21
18	27.35	2.60			7990	4.01
19	25.86	2.46			7928	3.98
20	22.72	2.16			8109	4.07
21	40.43	3.85			7797	3.91
22	64.63	6.15			7929	3.98
23	47.53	4.52			8037	4.03

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Thursday	1051.00	100.00			199224	100.00