Usenet Statistics (1997/04/05 - 1997/04/05)

Average daily rate: 1190.12 Mb, 183358 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	578.81	48.63
2	uunet	391.08	32.86
3	news-out.internetmci.com	220.02	18.49
4	repo.dsuper.net	0.21	0.02
5	newsmaster	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	uunet	105588	57.59
2	news.webspan.net	72298	39.43
3	news-out.internetmci.com	5385	2.94
4	repo.dsuper.net	82	0.04
5	newsmaster	4	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	62.49	5.25
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	61.84	5.20
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	45.18	3.80
4	alt.binaries.mac.applications	34.56	2.90
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scheherazade	18.34	1.54
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	18.07	1.52
7	de.alt.binaries.pictures.female	13.07	1.10
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	12.62	1.06
9	es.alt.binarios.sexo	11.47	0.96
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	10.68	0.90
11	rec.games.board	10.63	0.89
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	10.54	0.89
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	10.53	0.88
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	10.39	0.87
15	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action	10.05	0.84
16	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.games	9.86	0.83
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.admiralkrag	9.78	0.82
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	9.46	0.79
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.black.females	9.09	0.76
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	8.94	0.75

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	ba.jobs.offered	5130	2.80
2	misc.jobs.offered	4412	2.41
3	us.jobs.offered	3463	1.89
4	biz.jobs.offered	2795	1.52
5	alt.jobs	2217	1.21
6	us.jobs	1903	1.04
7	misc.jobs	1844	1.01
8	control	1693	0.92
9	jobs.offered	1632	0.89
10	alt.sex.pictures.female	1352	0.74
11	comp.jobs.offered	1251	0.68
12	alt.sex.pictures	1199	0.65
13	alt.sex	1143	0.62
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1143	0.62
15	misc.jobs.contract	1120	0.61
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1078	0.59
17	news.newusers.questions	1073	0.59
18	alt.sex.services	982	0.54
19	alt.sex.prostitution	938	0.51
20	alt.sex.masturbation	932	0.51

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	753.48	63.31
2	alt.binaries	643.64	54.08
3	alt.binaries.pictures	347.99	29.24
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	265.43	22.30
5	rec	110.51	9.29
6	alt.binaries.warez	65.25	5.48
7	alt.binaries.games	64.72	5.44
8	alt.binaries.multimedia	63.24	5.31
9	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	62.21	5.23
10	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	60.47	5.08
11	alt.sex	57.82	4.86
12	comp	57.31	4.82
13	rec.games	44.15	3.71
14	comp.sys	43.08	3.62
15	alt.binaries.mac	40.69	3.42
16	comp.sys.ibm	38.45	3.23
17	comp.sys.ibm.pc	38.37	3.22
18	alt.binaries.mac.applications	34.56	2.90
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	23.75	2.00
20	fido7	23.40	1.97

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	142535	77.74
2	alt.sex	65857	35.92
3	rec	38241	20.86
4	alt.binaries	31267	17.05
5	alt.binaries.pictures	26902	14.67
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	18921	10.32
7	comp	18214	9.93
8	tw	15011	8.19
9	tw.bbs	14941	8.15
10	misc	14233	7.76
11	soc	12639	6.89
12	alt.sex.fetish	12167	6.64
13	fido7	10332	5.63
14	soc.culture	9291	5.07
15	misc.jobs	8151	4.45
16	ba	7995	4.36
17	us	7005	3.82
18	rec.arts	6907	3.77
19	ba.jobs	6883	3.75
20	alt.fan	6792	3.70

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/04/05	1190.11	100.00			183356	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	61.15	5.14			7315	3.99
01	40.28	3.38			6042	3.30
02	87.77	7.38			7958	4.34
03	81.42	6.84			8024	4.38
04	65.54	5.51			7653	4.17
05	78.88	6.63			7786	4.25
06	72.23	6.07			7819	4.26
07	67.77	5.69			7618	4.15
08	36.09	3.03			7932	4.33
09	39.62	3.33			7601	4.15
10	36.42	3.06			7928	4.32
11	30.89	2.60			8157	4.45
12	49.04	4.12			7704	4.20
13	27.05	2.27			7798	4.25
14	38.72	3.25			7835	4.27
15	50.26	4.22			7286	3.97
16	53.13	4.46			7454	4.07
17	31.81	2.67			7624	4.16
18	32.02	2.69			7828	4.27
19	73.94	6.21			7489	4.08
20	36.79	3.09			7711	4.21
21	31.06	2.61			7705	4.20
22	35.06	2.95			7533	4.11
23	33.17	2.79			7556	4.12

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	1190.11	100.00			183356	100.00