A census of the South African web
Palo looks for websites under .za, visits them, and records how they link to one another. These figures are from the latest analysis, on 17 October 2026, 14:19 SAST.
Over time
Each point is the census on one day, as measured by that day's last analysis (South African time). The line breaks where the counting rules changed on 11 October 2026: the two sides were counted differently and are not directly comparable. Shaded spans and numbered lines mark the events below. Each range ends on the latest day.
Sites by status →
Every .za site in the census, by what happened when Palo last visited it. Blocked sites are counted from 11 October 2026.
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Islands and unrecognised sites →
As a share of active sites. Islands have no links to or from another site in the census; unrecognised sites link out but have no links in.
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Largest connected group →
The largest group of sites in which each can reach every other by following links, as a share of active sites.
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Links that leave .za →
Of the links from active sites to other domains, the share that go to domains outside .za. Each site and destination domain count once, however many pages carry the link. Recorded from 13 October 2026.
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The sites: search · by zone · rankings · paths between sites.
The data: every site and link (CSV) · timeline (CSV) · timeline (JSON) · events (JSON) · census summary (text). Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latest reports
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How the analysis changed
On 16 October 2026 Palo moved its graph analysis to a faster library. Betweenness is now exact, PageRank is now fully worked out, and reach was corrected for more than 32,000 sites. What changed, and by how much.
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Malformed names removed from the census
On 15 October 2026 Palo removed 4,434 entries that were not single website names, most of them counted as dead. What they were, and how the figures moved.
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Reading the census, for people and AI assistants
Every site in the census now has a record, the census can be searched, listed and ranked, and all of it can be read by AI assistants as well as people. Hlahlatha was retired. What changed, and where to find it.