Usenet Statistics (1997/03/14 - 1997/03/14)

Average daily rate: 401.61 Mb, 109640 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	286.17	71.25
2	uunet	82.18	20.46
3	news-out.internetmci.com	33.25	8.28
4	newsmaster	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	68783	62.74
2	uunet	38483	35.10
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2364	2.16
4	newsmaster	9	0.01
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.games	10.02	2.50
2	alt.binaries.mac.applications	6.89	1.72
3	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	6.79	1.69
4	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.49	1.62
5	misc.jobs.offered	6.48	1.61
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.facials	4.21	1.05
7	biz.jobs.offered	3.60	0.90
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	3.60	0.90
9	us.jobs.offered	3.57	0.89
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	3.43	0.85
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	3.41	0.85
12	alt.binaries.mac.games	3.20	0.80
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	3.12	0.78
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.04	0.76
15	alt.binaries.sounds.mp3	3.02	0.75
16	alt.binaries.sounds.music	2.85	0.71
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.scanmaster	2.75	0.69
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	2.62	0.65
19	ba.jobs.offered	2.45	0.61
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	2.41	0.60

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	8397	7.66
2	us.jobs.offered	7397	6.75
3	biz.jobs.offered	6700	6.11
4	comp.jobs.offered	5531	5.04
5	misc.jobs.contract	4686	4.27
6	us.jobs.contract	3988	3.64
7	ba.jobs.offered	3624	3.31
8	alt.jobs	1373	1.25
9	us.jobs	1372	1.25
10	prg.jobs	1074	0.98
11	misc.jobs	983	0.90
12	tx.jobs	923	0.84
13	comp.jobs	830	0.76
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	824	0.75
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	800	0.73
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	757	0.69
17	news.newusers.questions	684	0.62
18	la.jobs	676	0.62
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	661	0.60
20	ba.jobs.contract	638	0.58

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	235.47	58.63
2	alt.binaries	182.29	45.39
3	alt.binaries.pictures	122.77	30.57
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	93.03	23.16
5	rec	46.29	11.53
6	alt.sex	34.49	8.59
7	comp	23.29	5.80
8	misc	16.21	4.04
9	alt.binaries.mac	10.39	2.59
10	alt.binaries.games	10.05	2.50
11	misc.jobs	9.79	2.44
12	alt.binaries.warez	8.61	2.14
13	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	8.48	2.11
14	rec.games	8.22	2.05
15	rec.arts	8.18	2.04
16	alt.binaries.sounds	8.11	2.02
17	alt.binaries.multimedia	7.76	1.93
18	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	7.19	1.79
19	alt.binaries.mac.applications	6.89	1.72
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	6.69	1.67

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	129026	117.68
2	alt.binaries	57413	52.37
3	alt.binaries.pictures	47321	43.16
4	alt.sex	42567	38.83
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	35705	32.57
6	rec	30492	27.81
7	comp	23411	21.35
8	misc	20050	18.29
9	misc.jobs	14771	13.47
10	us	14087	12.85
11	us.jobs	13857	12.64
12	biz	9362	8.54
13	alt.sex.fetish	8929	8.14
14	misc.jobs.offered	8513	7.76
15	us.jobs.offered	7582	6.92
16	biz.jobs	7208	6.57
17	biz.jobs.offered	6966	6.35
18	comp.jobs	6464	5.90
19	comp.sys	5553	5.06
20	comp.jobs.offered	5532	5.05

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/14	401.61	100.00			109638	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	25.84	6.43			5702	5.20
01	17.12	4.26			4208	3.84
02	9.51	2.37			3271	2.98
03	12.27	3.05			3872	3.53
04	16.00	3.98			3758	3.43
05	16.70	4.16			3660	3.34
06	20.20	5.03			5174	4.72
07	21.56	5.37			5106	4.66
08	20.63	5.14			5323	4.86
09	22.44	5.59			5228	4.77
10	17.28	4.30			4622	4.22
11	15.64	3.89			4671	4.26
12	17.05	4.25			4367	3.98
13	16.15	4.02			5077	4.63
14	14.80	3.68			5130	4.68
15	15.44	3.84			4916	4.48
16	14.01	3.49			3759	3.43
17	13.67	3.40			3308	3.02
18	11.97	2.98			3004	2.74
19	16.05	4.00			3831	3.49
20	17.20	4.28			6306	5.75
21	17.59	4.38			4286	3.91
22	16.58	4.13			4799	4.38
23	15.90	3.96			6260	5.71

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Friday	401.61	100.00			109638	100.00