# aecrs.usaf.ac.za: Palo census record

Palo, a census of the South African web by Dirišwago. Record: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/aecrs.usaf.ac.za.md
As of the analysis on 12 November 2026, 04:15 SAST. Data licence: CC BY 4.0; credit "Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)".

Where it is: .za › ac.za › [usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/usaf.ac.za.md) › aecrs.usaf.ac.za

A site under the domain usaf.ac.za, one of its 12 sites.

## Summary

aecrs.usaf.ac.za is in the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 12 November 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 3 sites in the census link to it (2 in the analysed graph), and it links to 6 sites (5 in the analysed graph); the analysed graph counts the names redirecting to it as this site.

Website: https://aecrs.usaf.ac.za/

## Recorded about the site

Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself, quoted as data.

- Title: "AECRS - Advancing Early Career Researchers and Scholars"
- Description: "Welcome to AECRS The Advancing Early Career Researchers and Scholars (AECRS) programme has been developed to address the needs of emerging academic researchers in the South African higher education and research sector, for support and capacity building. Following from previous studies on building a…"
- Language: en
- schema.org types: WebPage, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, Organization
- Open Graph metadata: yes
- Homepage size: 145 KB, 37 links
- First seen: before 12 October 2026 (not recorded earlier)
- Listed by: Common Crawl (crawl CC-MAIN-2026-39); Common Crawl (crawl CC-MAIN-2026-43); a link from a crawled .za site; the list kept by Palo's earlier worker until October 2026 (from Common Crawl CC-MAIN-2025-18 or certificate transparency logs)

## Position in the link graph

The graph holds the active and blocked sites in the census and the links between them: 314,864 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

- Links in (in-degree): 2 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree): it links to 5 sites in the graph
- Names redirecting to it: 1, counted as this site in the graph: [pges.usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/pges.usaf.ac.za.md)
- PageRank rank: 69,137 of 314,864
- PageRank rank without footer-only links: 43,478 of 314,864
- PageRank rank between registered names: 111,173 of 314,864
- Betweenness rank: 15,250 of 314,864
- Sites reachable by following links: about 59,922 (estimated)
- Community: one of 6,144 sites in its Louvain community

Definitions: in-degree and out-degree count links from and to other sites in the graph. PageRank weighs links by the rank of the sites they come from; every link counts the same, whatever its purpose. Without footer-only links, it leaves out links only ever seen in a page footer. Between registered names, it leaves out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za. Betweenness measures how often a site lies on the shortest paths between others. An island has no links to or from other sites in the graph; an unrecognised site links out but has no links in. A Louvain community is a group of sites more densely linked to each other than to the rest.

## Links in: 3 sites

Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to aecrs.usaf.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). "Seen in" is where on the linking pages the link appears.

| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| [usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/usaf.ac.za.md) | active | 787 | body, nav |
| [thusoresources.usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/thusoresources.usaf.ac.za.md) | active | 54,976 | header |
| [pges.usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/pges.usaf.ac.za.md) | active | – | not recorded |

## Links out: 6 sites

Sites in the census that aecrs.usaf.ac.za's crawled pages link to, by PageRank rank (unranked last). "Seen in" is where on the linking pages the link appears.

| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| [payfast.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/payfast.co.za.md) | blocked | 19 | not recorded |
| [nrf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/nrf.ac.za.md) | active | 279 | not recorded |
| [usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/usaf.ac.za.md) | active | 787 | header |
| [thusoresources.usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/thusoresources.usaf.ac.za.md) | active | 54,976 | body, nav, footer |
| [dst.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/dst.gov.za.md) | active | – | body, header |
| [pges.usaf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/pges.usaf.ac.za.md) | active | – | body |

## Links leaving .za: 6 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

- facebook.com (header)
- linkedin.com (body, header)
- thusoconnect.mywisdomshare.com (body, nav, footer)
- tiktok.com (header)
- twitter.com (header)
- v4creative.com (footer)

## Related

- Other sites in its zone (ac.za): https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/sites.md?zone=ac.za
- Search the census: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/search.md?q={words}

## About these figures

- A domain is a name registered under a .za zone, such as uct.ac.za, with the sites under it, such as lib.uct.ac.za. Its status is the best of its sites': active, then unavailable, then blocked, then dead.
- Only links between .za sites in the census are counted; links from outside .za, social media and search engines are not observed.
- Links added by scripts after a page loads may be missed, and pages Palo has not crawled are not seen.
- Census-wide figures, definitions and limitations: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/api/summary
- What the census holds and how to use it: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/llms.txt
- This record for people: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/aecrs.usaf.ac.za