Census · Site record

dsti.gov.za

In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 28 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 70 sites in the census link to it (67 of them in the analysed graph), and it links to 12 sites.

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Recorded about the site

Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.

Title
“Department of Science, Technology and Innovation”
Description
“Advancing scientific knowledge and innovation for sustainable development in South Africa”
Language
en
schema.org types
GovernmentOrganization, WebSite
Open Graph metadata
yes
Homepage size
153 KB, 46 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: 312,022 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

Links in (in-degree)
67 sites in the graph link to it
Links out (out-degree)
it links to 12 sites in the graph
PageRank rank
1,326 of 312,022. 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
1,050 of 312,022. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
PageRank rank between registered names
998 of 312,022. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
Betweenness rank
114 of 312,022. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
Sites reachable by following links
about 58,306 (estimated)
Community
one of 13,329 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest

Links in: 70 sites

Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to dsti.gov.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last); 1 to 50 of 70. “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.

SiteStatusPageRank rankSeen in
tia.org.zaactive1,636body
rdisurveys.hsrc.ac.zaactive2,248body
scm.sarao.ac.zaactive2,475footer
cut.ac.zaactive3,152body
fbip.co.zaactive7,180body, footer
ecprov.gov.zaactive9,636body
manufacturingindaba.co.zaactive10,449body
naci.org.zaactive14,729body
crses.sun.ac.zaactive15,220body
sapri.ac.zaactive15,636footer
diplomics.org.zaactive16,583footer
smcri.saeon.ac.zaactive24,093footer
sfsa.co.zaactive26,569body, nav, footer
agribook.co.zaactive27,571body
mdzdigitalspace.co.zaactive30,701body
esastap.org.zaactive31,076body, footer
meddic.samrc.ac.zaactive32,233footer
seims.dsi.gov.zaactive32,648body, header
saprin.mrc.ac.zaactive34,005footer
mandelaminingprecinct.org.zaactive35,284not recorded
elwandle.saeon.ac.zaactive39,776not recorded
conferences.mrc.ac.zaactive40,514body
wasteroadmap.co.zaactive42,891nav, footer
sasmefund.co.zaactive49,202body
nscf.org.zaactive50,781footer
cpgr.org.zaactive51,960body
observations.saeon.ac.zaactive53,417footer
broadband.mandela.ac.zaactive54,237body
csirt.sanren.ac.zaactive58,892footer
npdo.csir.co.zaactive59,613body, header, footer
equipment.sapri.ac.zaactive62,844footer
nipmo.org.zaactive65,233body
amitd.co.zaactive65,355body
scc.chpc.ac.zaactive65,545header
salda.org.zaactive67,430body
sasec.org.zaactive67,695body
imidibaniso.co.zaactive76,119nav
buoys.saeon.ac.zaactive80,825body, footer
saeis.saeon.ac.zaactive80,826footer
dsi.gov.zaactive82,668body
dss.sansa.org.zaactive83,205footer
nstiip.naci.org.zaactive86,366header
copworkshop.co.zaactive86,912nav
spaceconference.co.zaactive86,913body, footer
c-star.co.zaactive90,386body
nanoafrica2026.sani.org.zaactive96,855not recorded
futureinsights.co.zaactive97,121body
aminstitute.co.zaactive97,923body
ncif.co.zaactive103,123body
socco.org.zaactive106,390body

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Links out: 12 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.

SiteStatusPageRank rankSeen in
nrf.ac.zaactive235body
hsrc.ac.zaactive263body
csir.co.zaactive431body
assaf.org.zaactive520body
sarao.ac.zaactive1,001body
tia.org.zaactive1,636body
sacnasp.org.zaactive2,037body
sansa.org.zaactive2,260body
naci.org.zaactive14,729body
dsireg.dst.gov.zablocked18,627body, header
ama.dst.gov.zaactive32,647body, header
seims.dsi.gov.zaactive32,648body, nav

Links leaving .za: 7 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

  • facebook.com (body, footer)
  • flickr.com (body)
  • innovationbridge.info (body, nav)
  • instagram.com (body)
  • x.com (body, footer)
  • youtube.com (body, footer)
  • za.linkedin.com (body, footer)

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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 29 October 2026, 06:26 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/dsti.gov.za.md.