Xref: utzoo news.lists:667 news.groups:6678 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (DEC 88) Message-ID: <16965@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 89 12:09:30 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 6600 429 95% 103 5333.0 0% 1.40 1.8% comp.binaries.amiga 2 30000 1933 84% 773 3247.8 3% 0.16 8.1% rec.humor 3 20000 1276 86% 1809 3102.4 6% 0.24 5.3% soc.singles 4 18000 1196 87% 1093 2772.8 0% 0.24 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 5 17000 1128 96% 1444 2524.0 8% 0.25 4.7% comp.sys.amiga 6 6700 433 89% 156 2342.9 0% 0.55 1.8% comp.mail.maps 7 9700 629 84% 1016 2342.8 27% 0.36 2.6% talk.politics.misc 8 4700 305 84% 893 2245.3 3% 0.71 1.3% talk.religion.misc 9 14000 942 94% 45 2016.6 0% 0.24 3.9% comp.sources.x 10 42000 2711 97% 1006 1925.9 13% 0.08 11.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 11 10000 663 85% 982 1817.3 2% 0.27 2.8% soc.motss 12 12000 801 87% 822 1748.0 27% 0.22 3.4% soc.women 13 9800 635 98% 226 1746.8 4% 0.31 2.7% comp.os.minix 14 9600 621 98% 468 1731.2 3% 0.31 2.6% comp.os.vms 15 3100 204 79% 687 1695.1 12% 0.76 0.9% talk.politics.mideast 16 10000 671 80% 1557 1685.6 6% 0.24 2.8% talk.bizarre 17 34000 2211 98% 55 1667.0 2% 0.08 9.3% comp.sources.unix 18 26000 1690 97% 1014 1636.1 13% 0.11 7.1% comp.sys.mac 19 16000 1047 94% 1027 1555.7 13% 0.16 4.4% rec.music.misc 20 9000 588 90% 687 1504.5 5% 0.27 2.5% soc.culture.china 21 8700 565 84% 638 1409.6 13% 0.24 2.4% soc.men 22 5600 361 98% 142 1358.9 8% 0.42 1.5% comp.mail.elm 23 8000 522 93% 490 1340.0 1% 0.28 2.2% rec.games.frp 24 3900 251 63% 125 1325.1 0% 0.38 1.1% gnu.gcc.bug 25 16000 1050 96% 43 1324.2 0% 0.14 4.4% comp.binaries.mac 26 14000 937 94% 668 1196.6 3% 0.14 3.9% rec.arts.sf-lovers 27 8400 543 85% 607 1182.7 0% 0.21 2.3% rec.sport.football 28 27000 1754 97% 645 1156.6 11% 0.07 7.4% comp.lang.c 29 14000 915 87% 709 1142.4 23% 0.12 3.8% rec.autos 30 28000 1793 99% 559 1134.4 15% 0.07 7.5% comp.unix.wizards 31 9800 634 93% 496 1065.4 4% 0.18 2.7% soc.culture.indian 32 22000 1401 96% 31 1062.3 0% 0.08 5.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 33 12000 799 87% 546 1060.2 7% 0.14 3.3% rec.audio 34 6900 447 93% 456 1059.3 15% 0.25 1.9% soc.culture.jewish 35 16000 1024 98% 550 1031.2 2% 0.11 4.3% comp.windows.x 36 14000 906 98% 609 992.4 0% 0.12 3.8% comp.sys.sun 37 7300 476 96% 31 985.9 0% 0.23 2.0% comp.sources.amiga 38 32000 2086 98% 33 972.4 0% 0.05 8.7% comp.sources.misc 39 11000 727 87% 477 950.0 21% 0.13 3.0% misc.kids 40 7300 474 88% 543 947.2 1% 0.20 2.0% rec.aviation