# chain.os.org.za: Palo census record

Palo, a census of the South African web by Dirišwago. Record: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/chain.os.org.za.md
As of the analysis on 25 October 2026, 20:27 SAST. Data licence: CC BY 4.0; credit "Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)".

## Summary

chain.os.org.za is in the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 25 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 0 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 22 sites (17 of them in the analysed graph). In the link graph it is an unrecognised.

Website: http://chain.os.org.za/

## Recorded about the site

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

- Title: "African Tech Grumblings"
- Description: "Thoughts from a South-African on technology and anything else vaguely interesting"
- Language: en
- Open Graph metadata: yes
- Homepage size: 96 KB, 163 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); 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: 237,719 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

- Links in (in-degree): 0 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree): it links to 17 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank: 140,707 of 237,719
- PageRank rank without footer-only links: 123,852 of 237,719
- PageRank rank between registered names: 118,168 of 237,719
- Betweenness rank: 94,831 of 237,719
- Sites reachable by following links: about 58,283 (estimated)
- Community: one of 10,188 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: 0 sites

No crawled page in the census links to chain.os.org.za.

## Links out: 22 sites

Sites in the census that chain.os.org.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| [google.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/google.co.za.md) | blocked | 7 | not recorded |
| [itweb.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/itweb.co.za.md) | active | 139 | not recorded |
| [mybroadband.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/mybroadband.co.za.md) | active | 159 | not recorded |
| [vodacom.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/vodacom.co.za.md) | active | 301 | not recorded |
| [icasa.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/icasa.org.za.md) | active | 309 | not recorded |
| [techcentral.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/techcentral.co.za.md) | active | 320 | not recorded |
| [mtn.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/mtn.co.za.md) | active | 1,009 | not recorded |
| [telkom.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/telkom.co.za.md) | active | 1,020 | not recorded |
| [cellc.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/cellc.co.za.md) | blocked | 2,361 | not recorded |
| [is.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/is.co.za.md) | active | 28,241 | body |
| [neotel.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/neotel.co.za.md) | active | 44,293 | not recorded |
| [afrihost.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/afrihost.co.za.md) | active | 47,734 | not recorded |
| [sony.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sony.co.za.md) | active | 60,920 | not recorded |
| [sandtoncity.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sandtoncity.co.za.md) | active | 92,968 | not recorded |
| [btimes.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/btimes.co.za.md) | active | 93,088 | not recorded |
| [graphics.os.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/graphics.os.org.za.md) | active | 113,929 | body |
| [islabs.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/islabs.co.za.md) | active | 113,946 | body |
| [cloud.is.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/cloud.is.co.za.md) | not yet visited | – | not recorded |
| [compafrica.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/compafrica.co.za.md) | not yet visited | – | not recorded |
| [mede8er.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/mede8er.co.za.md) | not yet visited | – | not recorded |
| [nashuamobile.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/nashuamobile.co.za.md) | not yet visited | – | not recorded |
| [vodacomsp.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/vodacomsp.co.za.md) | dead | – | not recorded |

## Links leaving .za: 25 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

- 9to5google.com (body)
- amazon.com (body)
- android.com (body)
- apple.com (body)
- appleinsider.com (body)
- assistant.google.com (body)
- blogger.com (body, footer)
- blogger.googleusercontent.com (body)
- bose.com (body)
- dipecomm.eu (body)
- engadget.com (body)
- gigsky.com (body)
- gl-inet.com (body)
- klipsch.com (body)
- north-america.beyerdynamic.com (body)
- oneplus.com (body)
- plantronics.com (body)
- pocket-lint.com (body)
- rowkin.com (body)
- samsung.com (body)
- sennheiser.com (body)
- store.google.com (body)
- theverge.com (body)
- urbandictionary.com (body)
- whathifi.com (body)

## Related

- Other sites in its zone (org.za): https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/sites.md?zone=org.za
- The shortest chain of links from it to another site, and back: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/path.md?from=chain.os.org.za&to={domain}
- Search the census: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/search.md?q={words}

## About these figures

- Only links between .za sites in the census are in the graph; 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/chain.os.org.za