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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!ruc.dk!david
- From: david@ruc.dk (David Stodolsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.groupware
- Subject: Readership figures for comp.groupware
- Summary: Source of readership information and current estimate
- Keywords: statistics subscribers
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.001426.24192@ruc.dk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:14:26 GMT
- Organization: Datalogi, Roskilde Universitetscenter
- Lines: 88
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- Readership information is posted monthly by the Network Measure Project at
- Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Labs. I include parts of the
- most recent report below. I have also included the estimated readership info for
- the month of Aug. 92 (last time I looked previously), since that was higher.
- This is very unusual, since network volume and almost all other usage parameters
- are more than doubling each year.
-
- I checked with Brian Reid and he said this change is due to the new way he is
- estimating parameters. So, the best guess about number of readers is now about
- 28,000. (There is a bimonthly increase of about 3%.) I don't think the figures
- he gives takes into account non-Netnews readers. We know from previous
- discussions both in this group and in news.admin that some large commercial
- services download Usenet groups. Sometimes these readers cannot post to the
- group. Also, there are many people who access news via WAIS and other archive
- oriented software. So the cumulative readership over time will be much higher
- then the estimates below.
-
- Once something is archived on the net, readership seems to increase
- indefinitely. I am now in contact with someone at IBM who read an article I
- posted to VIRUS-L two years after it was archived. I doubt this contact would
- have occurred if the article had been published on paper. The full text
- searchability of Netnews articles makes finding relevant material much easier
- and more reliable.
-
- I will add the source for readership info to the Introduction. I am sure this
- will cause flames in the future about the length of that post :-)
-
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-
-
-
- From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
- Newsgroups: news.lists
- Subject: USENET Readership report for Nov 92
- Date: 4 Dec 1992 17:14:51 GMT
- Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory
- Lines: 1683
- Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com
- Message-ID: <1fo3mbINN7um@usenet.pa.dec.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: torrey.pa.dec.com
- Summary: data for all groups
- Keywords: arbitron, statistics, full
- Originator: reid@torrey.pa.dec.com
-
- This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Nov 92.
- Explanations of the figures are in a companion posting.
-
- +-- 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/rdr
- | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
- | | | | | | | | who read this group.
- V V V V V V V V
- 1 180000 5379 90% 1 12.1 100% 0.00 10.9%
- news.announce.newusers
- 2 170000 4910 83% 1226 1401.3 28% 0.01 10.0% misc.forsale
- 3 170000 4862 84% 871 1762.7 20% 0.02 9.9% misc.jobs.offered
- 4 140000 4235 67% 2014 4176.9 51% 0.04 8.6% alt.sex
- .
- .
- .
-
- 337 26000 748 66% 110 168.4 22% 0.01 1.5% comp.bbs.misc
- 338 26000 747 81% 45 161.5 10% 0.01 1.5% comp.groupware
- 339 25000 744 78% 34 68.1 6% 0.00 1.5% comp.org.acm
- .
- .
- .
- 1668 1700 50 12% 26 44.0 52% 0.01 0.1% ne.motss
- 1669 1700 50 11% 55 69.9 2% 0.01 0.1% de.talk.jokes.d
- 1670 1700 50 10% 43 73.6 2% 0.01 0.1% de.soc.studium
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- USENET Readership report for Aug 92
-
- 297 47000 1027 80% 48 128.9 20% 0.01 1.9% comp.groupware
-
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