alt.www.webmaster Statistics
Total posts considered: 1,053 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Jul 23 21:01:05 2006
Latest article: Sun Jul 30 20:01:17 2006
Original articles: 86, replies: 967
Total size of posts: 2,157,463 bytes (2,106 kbytes) (2.06 Mbytes)
Average 150 articles per day, 0.29 Mbytes per day, 2,048 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,289 kbytes, bodies: 817 kbytes
Body: quoted 387 kbytes, original 350 kbytes = 47.53%, sigs 79 kbytes
Total number of posters: 167, average 12,918 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 123, average 17,540 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 29
Top Posters by Number of Messages
| # |
Poster |
Msgs |
| 1 | William Tasso | 118 |
| 2 | Charles Sweeney | 99 |
| 3 | sir robert blake | 79 |
| 4 | Els | 72 |
| 5 | Karl Groves | 50 |
| 6 | GreyWyvern | 43 |
| 7 | Dylan Parry | 34 |
| 8 | Viper | 29 |
| 9 | MGW | 29 |
| 10 | Jerry Stuckle | 27 |
| 11 | Ed Jay | 21 |
| 12 | Leonard Blaisdell | 17 |
| 13 | Blinky the Shark | 17 |
| 14 | Baho Utot | 16 |
| 15 | David Cary Hart | 15 |
| 16 | Cajun-Gwailo | 15 |
| 17 | Andy Mabbett | 14 |
| 18 | Toby Inkster | 13 |
| 19 | Heidi | 12 |
| 20 | ship | 12 |
Top Posters by Size (kbytes)
| # |
Poster |
Hdrs |
Quot |
Orig |
Sig |
Total |
| 1 | William Tasso | 131 | 42 | 44 | 7 | 225 |
| 2 | sir robert blake | 104 | 38 | 27 | 0 | 169 |
| 3 | Els | 111 | 29 | 12 | 4 | 158 |
| 4 | Charles Sweeney | 105 | 33 | 14 | 4 | 158 |
| 5 | GreyWyvern | 74 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 120 |
| 6 | Karl Groves | 65 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 92 |
| 7 | Jerry Stuckle | 39 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 72 |
| 8 | MGW | 40 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 66 |
| 9 | Dylan Parry | 42 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 55 |
| 10 | Viper | 39 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 49 |
| 11 | Toby Inkster | 9 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 37 |
| 12 | Cajun-Gwailo | 22 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 34 |
| 13 | Heidi | 12 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 33 |
| 14 | Ed Jay | 19 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 33 |
| 15 | Baho Utot | 21 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 32 |
| 16 | David Cary Hart | 17 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 30 |
| 17 | Leonard Blaisdell | 18 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 29 |
| 18 | ship | 16 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 29 |
| 19 | Blinky the Shark | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 28 |
| 20 | Marc Bissonnette | 13 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 27 |
Top Posters by Original Text (kbytes)
| # |
Poster |
Total |
| 1 | William Tasso | 44 |
| 2 | sir robert blake | 27 |
| 3 | Toby Inkster | 25 |
| 4 | GreyWyvern | 15 |
| 5 | Charles Sweeney | 14 |
| 6 | Els | 12 |
| 7 | Karl Groves | 10 |
| 8 | MGW | 9 |
| 9 | Heidi | 8 |
| 10 | Cajun-Gwailo | 8 |
Highest Percentage of Original Text
| # |
Poster |
Orig |
Body |
%age |
| 1 | Toby Inkster | 1 | 28 | 90 |
| 2 | Cajun-Gwailo | 2 | 11 | 75 |
| 3 | CJM | 1 | 4 | 69 |
| 4 | ship | 4 | 12 | 63 |
| 5 | Red E. Kilowatt | 1 | 4 | 62 |
| 6 | Dylan Parry | 3 | 12 | 57 |
| 7 | Andy Dingley | 1 | 9 | 57 |
| 8 | Marc Bissonnette | 5 | 14 | 54 |
| 9 | Leonard Blaisdell | 4 | 11 | 53 |
| 10 | Swampy Bogtrotter | 2 | 5 | 53 |
Lowest Percentage of Original Text
| # |
Poster |
Orig |
Body |
%age |
| 1 | Patrick | 6 | 10 | 18 |
| 2 | Blinky the Shark | 6 | 11 | 20 |
| 3 | SpaceGirl | 3 | 4 | 23 |
| 4 | Jerry Stuckle | 21 | 32 | 23 |
| 5 | Ed Jay | 9 | 14 | 24 |
| 6 | Els | 29 | 46 | 26 |
| 7 | Viper | 6 | 9 | 28 |
| 8 | Charles Sweeney | 33 | 53 | 28 |
| 9 | Concreteman | 6 | 9 | 29 |
| 10 | freemont | 3 | 5 | 32 |
Top Threads By Number of Messages
| # |
Thread |
Msgs |
| 1 | ot: ping Karl | 155 |
| 2 | Could U comment on this design/code please? | 58 |
| 3 | Affordable Host Down | 56 |
| 4 | Slightly OT: Ping Els | 56 |
| 5 | How Big? | 36 |
| 6 | ping Heidi | 34 |
| 7 | What is the best way to transfer 2 or 3 GB of data? (i.e. btw home & work) | 30 |
| 8 | What languages are you fluent in? | 23 |
| 9 | TheMooseIsLoose.net? | 23 |
| 10 | Spam from Jacobjac@gmail.com | 22 |
| 11 | Who's available? | 21 |
| 12 | Sizzling Portfolio of 653 .co.uk Domain Names Attracts Investor Interest | 20 |
| 13 | cheapest way to register domain name? | 19 |
| 14 | Moral Dilemma, temptation (sticking ones finger in the woodpeckers hole) | 17 |
| 15 | Domain Name Theft | 14 |
| 16 | E-mail to Fax | 14 |
| 17 | What do you see? | 14 |
| 18 | Criticizing others | 13 |
| 19 | To sell or not to sell? | 12 |
| 20 | JVDS Down - Again! | 11 |
Top Threads By Size (kbytes)
| # |
Thread |
Hdrs |
Quot |
Orig |
Sig |
Total |
| 1 | ot: ping Karl | 246 | 66 | 49 | 11 | 373 |
| 2 | Slightly OT: Ping Els | 86 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 121 |
| 3 | Affordable Host Down | 79 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 121 |
| 4 | Could U comment on this design/code please? | 65 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 102 |
| 5 | What is the best way to transfer 2 or 3 GB of data? (i.e. btw home & work) | 36 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 62 |
| 6 | How Big? | 38 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 58 |
| 7 | ping Heidi | 37 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 51 |
| 8 | TheMooseIsLoose.net? | 27 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 43 |
| 9 | Who's available? | 23 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 41 |
| 10 | Spam from Jacobjac@gmail.com | 25 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 41 |
| 11 | What languages are you fluent in? | 27 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 36 |
| 12 | Sizzling Portfolio of 653 .co.uk Domain Names Attracts Investor Interest | 23 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 36 |
| 13 | Moral Dilemma, temptation (sticking ones finger in the woodpeckers hole) | 17 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 35 |
| 14 | cheapest way to register domain name? | 22 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 33 |
| 15 | includes and symbolic links problem | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 26 |
| 16 | Criticizing others | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 26 |
| 17 | Hostgator- POWERVPS | 10 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 25 |
| 18 | To sell or not to sell? | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 25 |
| 19 | E-mail to Fax | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 24 |
| 20 | Domain Name Theft | 14 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 23 |
Most Replied-To Messages
| # |
Message-ID |
Replies |
| 1 | <1154090489.918790.51870@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> | 23 |
| 2 | <44c5bccb$0$18888$dbd4b001@news.wanadoo.nl> | 19 |
| 3 | <1153963997.663876.89490@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> | 9 |
| 4 | <RKmxg.6327$bi.5223@fe17.usenetserver.com> | 8 |
| 5 | <1153906569.936297.81620@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> | 7 |
| 6 | <op.tc8l8xqdm9g4qz-wnt@tbdata.com> | 7 |
| 7 | <1154032286.214585.12260@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> | 7 |
| 8 | <Xns980B733EE9FB9karlkarlcorecom@216.196.97.136> | 7 |
| 9 | <1153955803.906084.39260@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> | 6 |
| 10 | <Xns980C7541E73BFkarlkarlcorecom@216.196.97.136> | 6 |
Most Cross-Posted Groups
| # |
Group |
Msgs |
| 1 | news.admin.net-abuse.email | 23 |
| 2 | uk.net.web.authoring | 10 |
| 3 | alt.domain-names.wanted | 4 |
| 4 | comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains | 4 |
| 5 | alt.anonymous.domains | 4 |
| 6 | alt.domain-names.forsale | 4 |
| 7 | google.public.web-apis | 3 |
| 8 | google.public.support.general | 3 |
| 9 | alt.internet.research | 3 |
| 10 | alt.internet.search-engines | 3 |
Top User-Agents by Number of Posters
| # |
User-Agent |
Posters |
| 1 | G2 | 69 |
| 2 | Outlook Express | 28 |
| 3 | Xnews | 10 |
| 4 | Forte Agent | 9 |
| 5 | Pan | 6 |
| 6 | unknown | 5 |
| 7 | Mozilla | 5 |
| 8 | 40tude Dialog | 3 |
| 9 | Mozilla Thunderbird | 3 |
| 10 | Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows | 3 |
Top User-Agents by Number of Messages
| # |
User-Agent |
Msgs |
| 1 | Xnews | 248 |
| 2 | Opera M2 | 161 |
| 3 | G2 | 144 |
| 4 | Outlook Express | 117 |
| 5 | 40tude Dialog | 77 |
| 6 | Forte Agent | 62 |
| 7 | Mozilla | 46 |
| 8 | Mozilla Thunderbird | 31 |
| 9 | Pan | 29 |
| 10 | unknown | 24 |
Bandwidth-Wasting User-Agents by Average Header Size (bytes)
| # |
User-Agent |
Hdrs |
Msgs |
Avg |
| 1 | 40tude Dialog | 122541 | 77 | 1591 |
| 2 | Netscape | 9251 | 6 | 1541 |
| 3 | Mozilla Thunderbird | 45622 | 31 | 1471 |
| 4 | Opera M2 | 210533 | 161 | 1307 |
| 5 | G2 | 185597 | 144 | 1288 |
| 6 | Mozilla | 57754 | 46 | 1255 |
| 7 | unknown | 29901 | 24 | 1245 |
| 8 | Xnews | 306098 | 248 | 1234 |
| 9 | Sylpheed | 17847 | 15 | 1189 |
| 10 | Forte Agent | 73571 | 62 | 1186 |
Top Servers by Number of Posters
| # |
|
Posters |
| 1 | googlegroups.com | 69 |
| 2 | individual.net | 17 |
| 3 | nntp.comcast.com | 9 |
| 4 | news-peer-lilac.gradwell.net | 4 |
| 5 | postmaster.news.prodigy.com | 4 |
| 6 | news.supernews.com | 4 |
| 7 | corp.supernews.com | 4 |
| 8 | newspeer1-win.ntli.net | 4 |
| 9 | newsfeed.telus.net | 3 |
| 10 | local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com | 3 |
Top Servers by Size (kbytes)
| # |
Server |
Hdrs |
Quot |
Orig |
Sig |
Total |
| 1 | individual.net | 300 | 87 | 47 | 15 | 451 |
| 2 | googlegroups.com | 181 | 34 | 67 | 4 | 286 |
| 3 | nntp.comcast.com | 168 | 57 | 27 | 5 | 259 |
| 4 | easynews.com | 104 | 38 | 27 | 0 | 169 |
| 5 | corp.supernews.com | 96 | 32 | 20 | 10 | 159 |
| 6 | hamilton.zen.co.uk | 75 | 26 | 25 | 4 | 132 |
| 7 | demorgan.zen.co.uk | 56 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 94 |
| 8 | news-peer-lilac.gradwell.net | 26 | 6 | 30 | 4 | 67 |
| 9 | nntp.rcn.net | 40 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 66 |
| 10 | local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com | 20 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 36 |
Top Time Zones by Number of Posters
| # |
Zone |
Posters |
| 1 | -0700 | 76 |
| 2 | UTC | 34 |
| 3 | +0100 | 20 |
| 4 | -0400 | 15 |
| 5 | -0500 | 7 |
| 6 | +0200 | 5 |
| 7 | -0600 | 4 |
| 8 | +1000 | 3 |
| 9 | +0300 | 2 |
| 10 | +0930 | 1 |
Top Time Zones by Number of Messages
| # |
Zone |
Msgs |
| 1 | UTC | 310 |
| 2 | +0100 | 223 |
| 3 | -0700 | 191 |
| 4 | -0400 | 161 |
| 5 | +0200 | 78 |
| 6 | -0500 | 73 |
| 7 | -0600 | 7 |
| 8 | +1000 | 7 |
| 9 | +0300 | 2 |
| 10 | +0930 | 1 |
Days When We are Most in Need of a Life
| # |
Day |
Msgs |
| 1 | Mon | 144 |
| 2 | Tue | 186 |
| 3 | Wed | 125 |
| 4 | Thu | 80 |
| 5 | Fri | 93 |
| 6 | Sat | 71 |
| 7 | Sun | 83 |
| 8 | Non-RFC822 Header | 271 |
Stats compiled by Toby Inkster.