If you like to calculate the statistics for your own downloaded file, you can use the awk-script jokes.awk , which gives you the information, you see here. If you also wish to see the statistics for the subsections, you can use the script jokesub.awk . The statistics as generated by XS4all are a bit difficult to follow, as only the filename and not the title of a page is mentioned. In december 1998, I organized it in a way to be able to understand what was happening on the site. Here is the hit list of November 1998 in the order of the sections with some conclusions.
Chemistry is by far the most popular, followed by mathematics, pranks and physics.
This is a far different order than the number of jokes, which is mathematics, physics and then chemistry with pranks far behind. In the mnemonics section the order is a bit different. Chemistry again on top, followed by biology. Physics and mathematics lie behind that. So mathematicians like to make jokes and chemists like to read them.