Usenet Statistics (1996/12/21 - 1996/12/21)

Average daily rate: 109.96 Mb, 38977 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	uunet	65.08	59.19
2	news.webspan.net	30.17	27.44
3	news-out.internetmci.com	14.71	13.38
4	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	31396	80.55
2	news.webspan.net	6969	17.88
3	news-out.internetmci.com	612	1.57
4	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	5.33	4.84
2	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	3.47	3.16
3	misc.jobs.offered	2.26	2.06
4	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	2.00	1.82
5	alt.binaries.pictures.leek	1.61	1.46
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish.latex	1.16	1.05
7	misc.jobs.contract	1.07	0.97
8	alt.cracks	0.94	0.85
9	it.binari.erotismo	0.92	0.84
10	alt.binaries.pictures.dorks	0.85	0.78
11	alt.binaries.misc	0.84	0.77
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons	0.83	0.76
13	alt.hackintosh	0.82	0.75
14	alt.binaries.sounds.movies	0.80	0.73
15	bionet.molbio.genbank.updates	0.69	0.63
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	0.66	0.60
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	0.65	0.59
18	alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels	0.65	0.59
19	ncar.weather	0.61	0.55
20	alt.sex.fetish.smoking	0.58	0.52

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	1294	3.32
2	biz.jobs.offered	645	1.65
3	misc.jobs.contract	634	1.63
4	comp.jobs.offered	577	1.48
5	us.jobs.offered	512	1.31
6	ba.jobs.offered	453	1.16
7	alt.jobs	425	1.09
8	us.jobs.contract	366	0.94
9	news.newusers.questions	326	0.84
10	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	221	0.57
11	rec.collecting.sport.football	210	0.54
12	control	197	0.51
13	soc.culture.singapore	186	0.48
14	prg.jobs	186	0.48
15	talk.politics.misc	181	0.46
16	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	172	0.44
17	rec.collecting.sport.baseball	168	0.43
18	tw.bbs.rec.pcgame	161	0.41
19	alt.politics.usa.republican	157	0.40
20	talk.politics.guns	156	0.40

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	40.22	36.58
2	alt.binaries	28.20	25.64
3	rec	15.34	13.95
4	alt.binaries.pictures	13.96	12.69
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	8.06	7.33
6	comp	6.74	6.13
7	misc	5.97	5.43
8	alt.binaries.games	5.33	4.85
9	soc	4.31	3.92
10	tw	3.85	3.50
11	tw.bbs	3.84	3.49
12	alt.binaries.multimedia	3.47	3.16
13	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	3.47	3.16
14	misc.jobs	3.45	3.14
15	soc.culture	3.29	3.00
16	rec.arts	2.97	2.70
17	alt.sex	2.65	2.41
18	alt.binaries.warez	2.51	2.28
19	rec.games	2.41	2.19
20	comp.sys	2.37	2.16

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	12205	31.31
2	rec	10651	27.33
3	comp	5987	15.36
4	misc	3873	9.94
5	tw	3662	9.40
6	tw.bbs	3652	9.37
7	soc	3294	8.45
8	soc.culture	2529	6.49
9	misc.jobs	2020	5.18
10	comp.sys	1968	5.05
11	rec.arts	1624	4.17
12	rec.games	1560	4.00
13	alt.politics	1422	3.65
14	comp.os	1322	3.39
15	misc.jobs.offered	1305	3.35
16	biz	1293	3.32
17	fido	1277	3.28
18	talk	1216	3.12
19	rec.music	1210	3.10
20	alt.binaries	1151	2.95

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1996/12/21	109.96	100.00			38976	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	7.29	6.63			2782	7.14
01	4.17	3.79			1749	4.49
02	4.97	4.52			1736	4.45
03	4.54	4.13			1674	4.29
04	2.92	2.65			1329	3.41
05	3.85	3.50			1337	3.43
06	4.31	3.92			1310	3.36
07	6.51	5.92			2554	6.55
08	5.85	5.32			2277	5.84
09	5.52	5.02			1892	4.85
10	5.45	4.96			1991	5.11
11	4.73	4.30			1665	4.27
12	5.40	4.91			1616	4.15
13	3.03	2.76			1237	3.17
14	4.13	3.76			1122	2.88
15	2.78	2.53			1280	3.28
16	3.84	3.49			1354	3.47
17	3.18	2.89			1171	3.00
18	4.32	3.93			1611	4.13
19	4.20	3.82			1629	4.18
20	3.29	3.00			1282	3.29
21	4.30	3.91			1439	3.69
22	4.49	4.08			1206	3.09
23	6.87	6.25			1733	4.45

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Saturday	109.96	100.00			38976	100.00