TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (JAN 87)
Brian Reid
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 26000 2072 90% 268 4044.3 10 0.63 18.6% net.sources
2 5000 397 89% 688 2298.1 137 1.90 3.6% comp.sys.amiga
3 5100 400 90% 600 2182.3 117 1.70 3.6% comp.sys.atari.st
4 9000 714 86% 980 1854.2 108 0.83 6.4% soc.singles
5 3500 275 87% 692 1795.8 197 2.10 2.5% talk.politics.misc
6 15000 1147 96% 41 1754.5 2 0.47 10.3% mod.sources
7 5900 462 87% 641 1606.4 108 1.10 4.2% soc.women
8 5600 446 83% 731 1384.3 130 1.00 4.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers
9 12000 932 90% 615 1166.2 51 0.39 8.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc
10 2400 192 87% 424 1156.2 176 2.00 1.7% talk.religion.misc
11 2700 215 79% 465 1069.5 172 1.60 1.9% rec.arts.comics
12 9900 779 96% 518 834.3 52 0.34 7.0% mod.computers.vax
13 7600 601 96% 21 791.7 2 0.42 5.4% mod.mac.binaries
14 8800 697 90% 65 770.1 7 0.35 6.3% comp.ai
15 4700 373 79% 478 766.4 101 0.66 3.4% rec.arts.startrek
16 3100 243 89% 274 741.1 88 0.97 2.2% mod.music.gaffa
17 10000 809 79% 605 722.7 60 0.29 7.3% rec.humor
18 9900 781 90% 354 656.6 35 0.27 7.0% comp.lang.c
19 7000 549 91% 277 655.9 39 0.38 4.9% sci.space
20 3800 299 83% 394 641.7 103 0.68 2.7% rec.music.misc
21 8500 670 91% 467 634.2 54 0.30 6.0% comp.sys.mac
22 5600 440 80% 350 602.3 62 0.44 4.0% rec.audio
23 11000 871 89% 404 594.0 36 0.22 7.8% comp.unix.questions
24 15000 1196 90% 55 593.8 3 0.16 10.8% net.sources.games
25 3000 235 92% 304 553.6 101 0.75 2.1% soc.culture.indian
26 2400 186 78% 320 544.2 133 0.92 1.7% rec.aviation
27 8800 692 96% 22 525.7 2 0.24 6.2% mod.mac
28 3000 236 92% 194 514.7 64 0.69 2.1% soc.culture.jewish
29 6400 503 93% 252 498.0 39 0.32 4.5% sci.med
30 6900 548 80% 337 491.4 48 0.29 4.9% rec.arts.movies
31 2000 155 89% 125 476.4 62 0.96 1.4% comp.sys.atari.8bit
32 2900 227 85% 217 438.5 74 0.61 2.0% rec.music.synth
33 2800 218 77% 285 437.8 102 0.63 2.0% rec.sport.football
34 2100 168 78% 187 429.2 89 0.83 1.5% rec.ham-radio
35 1700 137 87% 122 398.5 72 0.95 1.2% talk.abortion
36 6500 513 86% 325 387.3 50 0.24 4.6% talk.bizarre
37 5100 399 78% 261 384.1 51 0.30 3.6% rec.autos
38 2000 154 88% 114 371.4 57 0.75 1.4% talk.philosophy.misc
39 4100 322 79% 261 359.2 63 0.35 2.9% rec.video
40 2000 158 87% 130 354.3 65 0.72 1.4% talk.origins