Usenet Statistics (1996/12/19 - 1996/12/19)

Average daily rate: 320.94 Mb, 101342 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	147.75	46.04
2	uunet	125.20	39.01
3	news-out.internetmci.com	47.96	14.94
4	newsmaster	0.03	0.01
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	uunet	56199	55.45
2	news.webspan.net	42159	41.60
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2974	2.93
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	9.74	3.03
2	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	8.10	2.52
3	alt.games	7.34	2.29
4	alt.2600.programz	4.28	1.33
5	misc.jobs.offered	3.87	1.21
6	alt.binaries.mac.applications	3.37	1.05
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	3.31	1.03
8	alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica	3.22	1.00
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	2.85	0.89
10	ba.jobs.offered	2.74	0.85
11	alt.mag.playboy	2.72	0.85
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotic.centerfolds	2.11	0.66
13	us.jobs.offered	1.86	0.58
14	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.male	1.80	0.56
15	comp.emulators.misc	1.79	0.56
16	biz.jobs.offered	1.75	0.54
17	de.alt.binaries.pictures.male	1.75	0.54
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1.73	0.54
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1.72	0.54
20	alt.sex.pictures.male	1.71	0.53

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	3794	3.74
2	us.jobs.offered	3697	3.65
3	biz.jobs.offered	3372	3.33
4	ba.jobs.offered	3218	3.18
5	comp.jobs.offered	2649	2.61
6	alt.jobs	1845	1.82
7	misc.jobs.contract	1806	1.78
8	us.jobs.contract	1494	1.47
9	prg.jobs	662	0.65
10	news.newusers.questions	656	0.65
11	comp.jobs	575	0.57
12	us.jobs	554	0.55
13	talk.politics.misc	499	0.49
14	alt.politics.usa.republican	491	0.48
15	alt.fan.rush-limbaugh	475	0.47
16	ncar.weather	431	0.43
17	la.jobs	425	0.42
18	ba.jobs.contract	408	0.40
19	tx.jobs	399	0.39
20	tw.bbs.comp.hardware	382	0.38

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	149.97	46.73
2	alt.binaries	75.53	23.53
3	alt.binaries.pictures	40.37	12.58
4	rec	34.83	10.85
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	32.68	10.18
6	comp	22.34	6.96
7	alt.sex	19.38	6.04
8	alt.binaries.warez	11.11	3.46
9	misc	11.00	3.43
10	alt.binaries.games	10.64	3.31
11	soc	9.81	3.06
12	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	9.61	2.99
13	tw	8.74	2.72
14	tw.bbs	8.67	2.70
15	alt.games	8.19	2.55
16	rec.arts	7.01	2.18
17	soc.culture	7.00	2.18
18	comp.sys	6.18	1.92
19	de	6.18	1.92
20	rec.games	6.14	1.91

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	50238	49.57
2	rec	21944	21.65
3	comp	18678	18.43
4	misc	10314	10.18
5	tw	8487	8.37
6	tw.bbs	8439	8.33
7	soc	6952	6.86
8	alt.binaries	6721	6.63
9	us	6405	6.32
10	us.jobs	6271	6.19
11	misc.jobs	6134	6.05
12	biz	5785	5.71
13	alt.sex	5608	5.53
14	alt.binaries.pictures	5177	5.11
15	soc.culture	5033	4.97
16	comp.sys	4993	4.93
17	ba	4496	4.44
18	ba.jobs	3904	3.85
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3900	3.85
20	misc.jobs.offered	3873	3.82

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1996/12/19	320.93	100.00			101340	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	18.92	5.90			3425	3.38
01	14.22	4.43			5222	5.15
02	15.62	4.87			5139	5.07
03	13.42	4.18			4593	4.53
04	15.23	4.75			4538	4.48
05	13.37	4.17			4324	4.27
06	13.51	4.21			4087	4.03
07	15.87	4.94			4161	4.11
08	10.87	3.39			4052	4.00
09	9.23	2.88			3422	3.38
10	11.79	3.67			3610	3.56
11	14.22	4.43			3843	3.79
12	12.50	3.90			4298	4.24
13	10.93	3.41			4008	3.96
14	12.75	3.97			4040	3.99
15	12.21	3.80			3996	3.94
16	15.35	4.78			4212	4.16
17	14.32	4.46			4517	4.46
18	9.36	2.92			3679	3.63
19	12.67	3.95			4255	4.20
20	15.69	4.89			4529	4.47
21	13.64	4.25			4934	4.87
22	12.38	3.86			4390	4.33
23	12.85	4.00			4066	4.01

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Thursday	320.93	100.00			101340	100.00