Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 13 November 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 2 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 27 sites (24 of them in the analysed graph).
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “Gauteng City-Region Observatory”
- Description
- “The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) is a partnership between the University of Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG), and organised local government in Gauteng (SALGA-Gauteng).”
- Language
- none declared
- Open Graph metadata
- yes
- Homepage size
- 81 KB, 78 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)
Its place in the graph of sites
The graph of sites 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 24 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 109,265 of 314,864. PageRank weighs links by the rank of the sites they come from; every link counts the same, whatever its purpose
- PageRank rank without footer-only links
- 77,733 of 314,864. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 87,228 of 314,864. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 54,660 of 314,864. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 59,922 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 6,144 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 2 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to cdn.gcro.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears; “same domain” marks a site under gcro.ac.za.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| gcro.ac.za · same domain | active | 16,628 | body |
| waterforthefuture.co.za | active | 76,495 | body |
Links out: 27 sites
Sites in the census that its crawled pages link to, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears; “same domain” marks a site under gcro.ac.za.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| google.co.za | active | 8 | body |
| dailymaverick.co.za | active | 80 | body |
| wits.ac.za | active | 89 | not recorded |
| mg.co.za | active | 90 | not recorded |
| nicd.ac.za | active | 361 | not recorded |
| journals.co.za | blocked | 872 | not recorded |
| scholar.google.co.za | active | 1,332 | not recorded |
| witspress.co.za | active | 1,432 | not recorded |
| repository.up.ac.za | blocked | 1,785 | not recorded |
| hsrcpress.ac.za | active | 1,827 | not recorded |
| books.google.co.za | active | 1,834 | not recorded |
| journals.ufs.ac.za | active | 5,312 | not recorded |
| ojs.sabinet.co.za | active | 5,440 | not recorded |
| samajournals.co.za | active | 7,065 | not recorded |
| gcro.ac.za · same domain | active | 16,628 | body |
| hrdcsa.org.za | active | 28,905 | not recorded |
| mistra.org.za | active | 49,918 | not recorded |
| breinstorm.co.za | active | 104,733 | footer |
| barometer.gcro.ac.za · same domain | active | 114,369 | nav |
| southafricanlabourbulletin.org.za | active | 114,370 | not recorded |
| transformationjournal.org.za | active | 114,371 | not recorded |
| village-of-100.gcro.ac.za · same domain | active | 114,372 | body, nav |
| ifas.org.za | active | – | not recorded |
| sdstest.ukzn.ac.za | dead | – | not recorded |
| sobeds.ukzn.ac.za | active | – | not recorded |
| up.ac.za | dead | – | not recorded |
| wiredspace.wits.ac.za | unavailable | – | not recorded |
Links leaving .za: 11 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- d3iy114y1zl2zq.cloudfront.net (body)
- facebook.com (nav)
- instagram.com (nav)
- linkedin.com (body, nav)
- mozilla.org (body)
- theconversation.com (body)
- unomena.com (footer)
- urbanobservatory.org (nav)
- whatsapp.com (body, nav)
- x.com (nav)
- youtube.com (body, nav)
Related
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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.
- As of the analysis on 12 November 2026, 04:15 SAST. The data is CC BY 4.0; credit “Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)”.
- This record as Markdown, for language models and other programs: /explore/cdn.gcro.ac.za.md.