Usenet Statistics (1997/03/18 - 1997/03/18)

Average daily rate: 352.30 Mb, 102235 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	252.29	71.61
2	uunet	69.66	19.77
3	news-out.internetmci.com	30.33	8.61
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.01
5	ip-75.sb.net	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	news.webspan.net	67864	66.38
2	uunet	32340	31.63
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2016	1.97
4	newsmaster	14	0.01
5	ip-75.sb.net	1	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	7.18	2.04
2	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	6.55	1.86
3	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	6.47	1.84
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	5.82	1.65
5	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	5.04	1.43
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	4.78	1.36
7	misc.jobs.offered	4.24	1.20
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	3.91	1.11
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	3.35	0.95
10	us.jobs.offered	3.29	0.93
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.hornyrob	3.22	0.91
12	alt.binaries.mac.applications	3.00	0.85
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.redheads	2.80	0.80
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	2.65	0.75
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	2.53	0.72
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	2.23	0.63
17	alt.binaries.misc	2.18	0.62
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female.anal	2.12	0.60
19	ba.jobs.offered	2.01	0.57
20	alt.binaries.pictures.girlfriends	1.99	0.56

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	us.jobs.offered	5510	5.39
2	misc.jobs.offered	5248	5.13
3	ba.jobs.offered	3339	3.27
4	biz.jobs.offered	2984	2.92
5	comp.jobs.offered	2189	2.14
6	misc.jobs.contract	1899	1.86
7	us.jobs	1467	1.43
8	us.jobs.contract	1395	1.36
9	alt.jobs	1297	1.27
10	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	973	0.95
11	prg.jobs	950	0.93
12	misc.jobs	844	0.83
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	802	0.78
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	797	0.78
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	755	0.74
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	714	0.70
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	711	0.70
18	comp.jobs	682	0.67
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	677	0.66
20	news.newusers.questions	622	0.61

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	208.52	59.19
2	alt.binaries	160.95	45.69
3	alt.binaries.pictures	114.97	32.64
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	91.33	25.92
5	rec	42.89	12.17
6	alt.sex	27.94	7.93
7	comp	20.93	5.94
8	misc	12.12	3.44
9	alt.binaries.warez	9.34	2.65
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	8.90	2.53
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	8.40	2.39
12	rec.arts	7.78	2.21
13	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	7.65	2.17
14	alt.binaries.games	7.23	2.05
15	rec.games	7.12	2.02
16	alt.sex.fetish	6.25	1.77
17	comp.sys	6.07	1.72
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	6.05	1.72
19	misc.jobs	6.01	1.70
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	5.90	1.68

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	126468	123.70
2	alt.binaries	51349	50.23
3	alt.sex	46299	45.29
4	alt.binaries.pictures	40835	39.94
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	30588	29.92
6	rec	29033	28.40
7	comp	19309	18.89
8	misc	13580	13.28
9	us	9280	9.08
10	us.jobs	9040	8.84
11	alt.sex.fetish	9034	8.84
12	misc.jobs	8582	8.39
13	biz	5701	5.58
14	us.jobs.offered	5664	5.54
15	misc.jobs.offered	5303	5.19
16	comp.sys	5209	5.10
17	rec.arts	4878	4.77
18	ba	4573	4.47
19	soc	4365	4.27
20	ba.jobs	4273	4.18

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/18	352.29	100.00			102231	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	17.77	5.04			5324	5.21
01	13.79	3.91			3506	3.43
02	8.05	2.28			2246	2.20
03	6.88	1.95			2345	2.29
04	8.52	2.42			2513	2.46
05	8.85	2.51			2862	2.80
06	11.97	3.40			3109	3.04
07	11.58	3.29			2456	2.40
08	18.53	5.26			5318	5.20
09	14.43	4.10			4948	4.84
10	11.74	3.33			4387	4.29
11	12.19	3.46			4341	4.25
12	10.03	2.85			3810	3.73
13	11.75	3.34			3902	3.82
14	17.67	5.02			4960	4.85
15	15.00	4.26			4830	4.72
16	17.17	4.87			4439	4.34
17	17.13	4.86			4748	4.64
18	16.76	4.76			4905	4.80
19	12.73	3.61			4047	3.96
20	13.25	3.76			4463	4.37
21	20.28	5.76			5991	5.86
22	23.01	6.53			5447	5.33
23	33.23	9.43			7334	7.17

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Tuesday	352.29	100.00			102231	100.00