Xref: utzoo news.lists:435 news.groups:3140 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ames!amdcad!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (MAR 88) Message-ID: <12420@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 3 Apr 88 03:42:33 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide. | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month) | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 19000 1468 95% 347 6868.0 18 2.30 7.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 2 6700 513 90% 430 6347.0 64 5.70 2.8% comp.mail.maps 3 7100 550 87% 1271 3367.8 179 2.80 3.0% talk.politics.misc 4 20000 1504 88% 1582 2558.2 79 0.76 8.1% soc.singles 5 12000 925 86% 1414 2042.9 117 0.99 5.0% talk.bizarre 6 14000 1069 88% 917 2021.9 65 0.86 5.8% soc.women 7 9900 765 94% 1248 1962.0 126 1.30 4.1% rec.music.misc 8 21000 1652 98% 1045 1905.7 49 0.60 8.9% comp.lang.c 9 6500 501 94% 617 1894.2 94 1.90 2.7% rec.games.frp 10 13000 995 97% 74 1886.8 5 0.95 5.4% comp.binaries.mac 11 23000 1780 98% 1127 1824.8 49 0.52 9.6% comp.sys.mac 12 11000 843 88% 962 1706.3 87 0.93 4.5% rec.arts.startrek 13 13000 978 88% 995 1682.8 76 0.77 5.3% rec.autos 14 31000 2356 97% 1042 1593.4 33 0.34 12.7% comp.sys.ibm.pc 15 13000 975 98% 660 1548.9 50 0.79 5.3% comp.sys.atari.st 16 6000 462 88% 667 1465.9 111 1.50 2.5% rec.arts.comics 17 7000 541 95% 674 1452.0 96 1.30 2.9% soc.culture.indian 18 6400 492 89% 745 1421.3 116 1.30 2.7% rec.aviation 19 4400 339 86% 381 1333.0 86 1.80 1.8% talk.religion.misc 20 4900 381 87% 747 1150.7 152 1.40 2.1% rec.sport.basketball 21 25000 1906 88% 861 1131.6 34 0.27 10.3% rec.humor 22 3700 286 94% 515 1125.0 139 1.90 1.5% rec.music.gdead 23 22000 1682 99% 602 1015.2 27 0.31 9.1% comp.unix.wizards 24 4700 365 88% 345 994.9 73 1.30 2.0% soc.culture.china 25 12000 944 95% 580 929.2 48 0.49 5.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers 26 6800 522 95% 28 920.5 4 0.87 2.8% comp.binaries.amiga 27 8100 626 97% 441 896.6 54 0.73 3.4% comp.os.vms 28 20000 1543 99% 344 880.7 17 0.29 8.3% news.groups 29 9300 714 89% 238 876.1 25 0.57 3.9% misc.headlines 30 2800 216 70% 391 866.8 139 1.50 1.2% talk.politics.mideast 31 5200 399 94% 340 858.0 65 1.10 2.2% soc.culture.jewish 32 11000 830 88% 520 810.7 47 0.44 4.5% rec.audio 33 7800 604 97% 478 792.3 61 0.66 3.3% comp.sys.apple 34 2600 197 86% 288 784.7 110 1.80 1.1% talk.origins 35 13000 997 89% 531 768.5 40 0.35 5.4% rec.arts.movies 36 13000 1027 97% 317 738.1 24 0.37 5.5% sci.space 37 11000 850 90% 310 728.1 28 0.40 4.6% misc.legal 38 11000 837 96% 365 713.2 33 0.42 4.5% sci.med 39 18000 1367 97% 322 690.6 17 0.25 7.4% comp.arch 40 10000 767 96% 290 684.8 29 0.45 4.1% sci.misc