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

Average daily rate: 733.74 Mb, 179830 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	512.46	69.84
2	uunet	144.92	19.75
3	news-out.internetmci.com	76.35	10.41
4	opsoft	0.01	0.00
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	110618	61.51
2	uunet	65817	36.60
3	news-out.internetmci.com	3388	1.88
4	opsoft	5	0.00
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	37.67	5.13
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	10.79	1.47
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	10.52	1.43
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.latina	10.23	1.39
5	alt.binaries.pictures	9.26	1.26
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	8.97	1.22
7	alt.binaries.sounds.midi	8.63	1.18
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons	8.62	1.18
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cheerleaders	8.61	1.17
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	8.49	1.16
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	8.09	1.10
12	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.94	1.08
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	7.92	1.08
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pornstar	7.76	1.06
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	7.34	1.00
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	6.68	0.91
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.black.male	6.66	0.91
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	5.92	0.81
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	5.77	0.79
20	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	5.58	0.76

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs	3788	2.11
2	misc.jobs.offered	2903	1.61
3	us.jobs.offered	2407	1.34
4	biz.jobs.offered	2404	1.34
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	2055	1.14
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1992	1.11
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	1975	1.10
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	1704	0.95
9	ba.jobs.offered	1510	0.84
10	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	1467	0.82
11	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	1447	0.80
12	misc.jobs.contract	1346	0.75
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1251	0.70
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1153	0.64
15	alt.sex.pictures	1038	0.58
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	1029	0.57
17	news.newusers.questions	991	0.55
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish	968	0.54
19	comp.jobs.offered	934	0.52
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	899	0.50

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	473.31	64.51
2	alt.binaries	407.80	55.58
3	alt.binaries.pictures	298.23	40.65
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	226.16	30.82
5	rec	47.96	6.54
6	alt.binaries.games	37.76	5.15
7	comp	36.60	4.99
8	alt.sex	34.79	4.74
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	19.94	2.72
10	soc	15.47	2.11
11	tw	14.88	2.03
12	tw.bbs	14.83	2.02
13	alt.binaries.sounds	14.76	2.01
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	13.78	1.88
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	13.02	1.77
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	12.74	1.74
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	12.14	1.65
18	alt.binaries.warez	11.86	1.62
19	soc.culture	11.61	1.58
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.black	11.38	1.55

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	137753	76.60
2	alt.binaries	74090	41.20
3	alt.binaries.pictures	59329	32.99
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	46082	25.63
5	alt.sex	32829	18.26
6	rec	30110	16.74
7	comp	25954	14.43
8	tw	13941	7.75
9	tw.bbs	13904	7.73
10	misc	9985	5.55
11	soc	9057	5.04
12	us	7500	4.17
13	us.jobs	7306	4.06
14	comp.sys	6888	3.83
15	soc.culture	6779	3.77
16	alt.sex.fetish	5977	3.32
17	comp.os	5882	3.27
18	microsoft	5663	3.15
19	microsoft.public	5620	3.13
20	rec.arts	5325	2.96

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/04	254.46	100.00			62364	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	41.36	16.26			9775	15.67
01	36.51	14.35			7161	11.48
02	28.41	11.17			5040	8.08
03	34.37	13.51			7152	11.47
04	32.56	12.80			7954	12.75
05	25.45	10.00			7864	12.61
06	23.55	9.25			7158	11.48
07	23.40	9.19			7886	12.65
08	8.85	3.48			2374	3.81

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Tuesday	254.46	100.00			62364	100.00