ctnews.co.za
In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 21 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 3 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 9 sites (8 of them in the analysed graph).
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “Cape Town News | Latest Cape Town & Western Cape News”
- Description
- “Latest verified Cape Town and Western Cape news, including city affairs, crime, traffic, business, property, politics, sport and events.”
- Language
- en
- schema.org types
- Place, Organization, WebSite, ImageObject, WebPage, ItemList
- Open Graph metadata
- yes
- Homepage size
- 410 KB, 156 links
- First seen
- before 12 October 2026 (not recorded earlier)
- Listed by
- Common Crawl (crawl CC-MAIN-2026-39); 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: 214,017 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 3 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 8 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 54,313 of 214,017. 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
- 45,230 of 214,017. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 57,177 of 214,017. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 3,982 of 214,017. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 58,400 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 6,828 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 3 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to ctnews.co.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| ncpd.org.za | active | 12,779 | body |
| wcpdf.org.za | active | 34,235 | body |
| elections.ctnews.co.za | active | 83,854 | body |
Links out: 9 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.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| westerncape.gov.za | active | 45 | body |
| capetown.gov.za | active | 71 | not recorded |
| saps.gov.za | active | 94 | not recorded |
| ewn.co.za | active | 417 | not recorded |
| capeargus.co.za | active | 777 | not recorded |
| smilefm.co.za | active | 2,929 | not recorded |
| elections.ctnews.co.za | active | 83,854 | body, nav |
| market.ctnews.co.za | active | 83,855 | body, nav |
| marketplace.ctnews.co.za | not yet visited | – | body |
Links leaving .za: 22 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- apps.apple.com (body)
- bsky.app (body, header, footer)
- developers.facebook.com (nav)
- developers.google.com (nav)
- en.wikipedia.org (body)
- facebook.com (body, header, nav, footer)
- instagram.com (header, footer)
- learn.wordpress.org (nav)
- linkedin.com (body, header, footer)
- open.spotify.com (body, header, footer)
- patreon.com (header, footer)
- play.google.com (body)
- reddit.com (header, footer)
- search.google.com (nav)
- tiktok.com (header, footer)
- twitter.com (body, nav)
- wa.me (body)
- whatsapp.com (body, header, footer)
- wordpress.org (nav)
- wpcode.com (nav)
- x.com (header, footer)
- youtube.com (body, header, footer)
Related
Other sites in its zone (co.za) · Search the census
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.
- As of the analysis on 21 October 2026, 14:22 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/ctnews.co.za.md.