Usenet Statistics (1997/04/06 - 1997/04/06)

Average daily rate: 1578.82 Mb, 173151 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	1178.45	74.64
2	uunet	348.12	22.05
3	news-out.internetmci.com	52.25	3.31
4	newsmaster	0.01	0.00
5	fuckyou	0.00	0.00
6	ip-60.sb.net	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	uunet	95659	55.25
2	news.webspan.net	71370	41.22
3	news-out.internetmci.com	6109	3.53
4	newsmaster	8	0.00
5	fuckyou	2	0.00
6	ip-60.sb.net	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.multimedia.erotica	175.58	11.12
2	alt.binaries.games	160.85	10.19
3	alt.binaries.mac.applications	48.85	3.09
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	34.56	2.19
5	alt.binaries.fonts	30.91	1.96
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	27.70	1.75
7	alt.binaries.misc	26.41	1.67
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	21.86	1.38
9	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	21.11	1.34
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	20.19	1.28
11	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	18.38	1.16
12	alt.binaries.warez	17.79	1.13
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons	16.93	1.07
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials	15.56	0.99
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	14.71	0.93
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	14.06	0.89
17	alt.binaries.mac.games	12.57	0.80
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.admiralkrag	12.56	0.80
19	alt.binaries.sounds.utilities	11.51	0.73
20	rec.puzzles	11.15	0.71

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	4998	2.89
2	misc.jobs.offered	4633	2.68
3	ba.jobs.offered	3922	2.27
4	biz.jobs.offered	3284	1.90
5	alt.jobs	2343	1.35
6	us.jobs	1737	1.00
7	prg.jobs	1587	0.92
8	la.jobs	1548	0.89
9	comp.jobs.offered	1529	0.88
10	misc.jobs	1507	0.87
11	control	1239	0.72
12	ba.jobs	1126	0.65
13	tw.bbs.forsale.computer	1105	0.64
14	misc.jobs.contract	1101	0.64
15	jobs.offered	1099	0.64
16	news.newusers.questions	1080	0.62
17	microsoft.public.inetexplorer.ie4	1077	0.62
18	alt.sex.pictures	1035	0.60
19	cit.jobs	1030	0.60
20	alt.sex.pictures.female	1002	0.58

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	1175.05	74.43
2	alt.binaries	1045.11	66.20
3	alt.binaries.pictures	415.91	26.34
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	337.08	21.35
5	alt.binaries.multimedia	178.71	11.32
6	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	177.02	11.21
7	alt.binaries.games	167.62	10.62
8	rec	142.36	9.02
9	rec.games	70.85	4.49
10	alt.sex	64.55	4.09
11	alt.binaries.mac	61.44	3.89
12	alt.binaries.sounds	54.21	3.43
13	alt.binaries.warez	53.49	3.39
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	50.71	3.21
15	alt.binaries.mac.applications	48.85	3.09
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	37.36	2.37
17	soc	37.17	2.35
18	alt.binaries.fonts	30.91	1.96
19	alt.fan	30.45	1.93
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	27.73	1.76

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	112658	65.06
2	alt.sex	42159	24.35
3	rec	38427	22.19
4	alt.binaries	29853	17.24
5	alt.binaries.pictures	23610	13.64
6	comp	19720	11.39
7	tw	18814	10.87
8	tw.bbs	18719	10.81
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	17559	10.14
10	misc	13267	7.66
11	soc	12829	7.41
12	soc.culture	9078	5.24
13	us	8346	4.82
14	fido7	8174	4.72
15	us.jobs	8130	4.70
16	misc.jobs	7703	4.45
17	ba	7220	4.17
18	alt.sex.fetish	7053	4.07
19	comp.sys	6925	4.00
20	rec.arts	6671	3.85

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/04/06	1513.02	100.00			165935	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	45.55	3.01			7592	4.58
01	30.57	2.02			5581	3.36
03	36.89	2.44			7979	4.81
04	165.16	10.92			6219	3.75
05	160.98	10.64			6283	3.79
06	179.75	11.88			5785	3.49
07	130.02	8.59			6452	3.89
08	120.25	7.95			6418	3.87
09	91.12	6.02			6955	4.19
10	71.36	4.72			7350	4.43
11	69.70	4.61			7685	4.63
12	44.20	2.92			7913	4.77
13	28.14	1.86			7911	4.77
14	23.93	1.58			8004	4.82
15	26.48	1.75			7821	4.71
16	47.62	3.15			7395	4.46
17	41.39	2.74			7191	4.33
18	21.72	1.44			7565	4.56
19	22.62	1.49			7425	4.47
20	26.40	1.74			7498	4.52
21	25.78	1.70			7846	4.73
22	26.81	1.77			7761	4.68
23	76.58	5.06			7306	4.40

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	1513.02	100.00			165935	100.00