Census · Site record

gcro.ac.za

In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 19 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 11 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 27 sites (25 of them in the analysed graph).

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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, 77 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: 210,557 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

Links in (in-degree)
11 sites in the graph link to it
Links out (out-degree)
it links to 25 sites in the graph
PageRank rank
13,139 of 210,557. 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
10,637 of 210,557. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
PageRank rank between registered names
9,391 of 210,557. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
Betweenness rank
1,223 of 210,557. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
Sites reachable by following links
about 48,492 (estimated)
Community
one of 5,674 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest

Links in: 11 sites

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

SiteStatusPageRank rankSeen in
techfinancials.co.zaactive1,499not recorded
solarguru.co.zaactive22,955body
socialsurveys.co.zaactive30,529not recorded
ourcitynews.co.zaactive54,199not recorded
uj-unit2.co.zaactive62,733not recorded
policyresearch.limpopo.gov.zablocked70,766not recorded
gpma.co.zaactive72,128body
cdn.gcro.ac.zaactive77,661body
carnegie3.org.zaactive94,041body
aqualinks.co.zaactive107,641body
emilytyler.co.zaactive132,305not recorded

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.

SiteStatusPageRank rankSeen in
google.co.zablocked6body
dailymaverick.co.zaactive39body
wits.ac.zaactive52body
mg.co.zaactive82body
journals.co.zablocked612body
nicd.ac.zaactive847body
scholar.google.co.zaactive924body
witspress.co.zaactive1,232body
repository.up.ac.zaactive1,689body
wiredspace.wits.ac.zaactive1,816body
books.google.co.zaactive1,843body
journals.ufs.ac.zaactive2,602body
ojs.sabinet.co.zaactive2,707body
hsrcpress.ac.zaactive3,165body
samajournals.co.zaactive8,046body
hrdcsa.org.zaactive21,278body
sobeds.ukzn.ac.zaactive23,215body
ifas.org.zaactive29,754body
mistra.org.zaactive36,955body
breinstorm.co.zaactive70,014footer
cdn.gcro.ac.zaactive77,661body
barometer.gcro.ac.zaactive78,360nav
southafricanlabourbulletin.org.zaactive78,361body
transformationjournal.org.zablocked78,362body
village-of-100.gcro.ac.zaactive78,363body, nav
sdstest.ukzn.ac.zanot yet visited–body
up.ac.zadead–body

Links leaving .za: 79 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to, the first 50 by name:

  • academic.oup.com (body)
  • agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com (body)
  • amps-research.com (body)
  • anax1em.pressmart.com (body)
  • aresjournals.org (body)
  • bmjopen.bmj.com (body)
  • books.emeraldinsight.com (body)
  • bristoluniversitypress.co.uk (body)
  • cambridge.org (body)
  • cambridgescholars.com (body)
  • chooser.crossref.org (body)
  • d3iy114y1zl2zq.cloudfront.net (body)
  • digital-library.theiet.org (body)
  • discovery.ucl.ac.uk (body)
  • doi.org (body)
  • dpoi.org (body)
  • dx.doi.org (body)
  • elgaronline.com (body)
  • estantevirtual.com.br (body)
  • eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com (body)
  • facebook.com (nav)
  • frontiersin.org (body)
  • globalhealth5050.org (body)
  • iemed.org (body)
  • ijurr.org (body)
  • ingentaconnect.com (body)
  • instagram.com (nav)
  • int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net (body)
  • iopscience.iop.org (body)
  • iwaponline.com (body)
  • journals.plos.org (body)
  • journals.sagepub.com (body)
  • jstor.org (body)
  • leadershipandsocieties.com (body)
  • link.springer.com (body)
  • linkedin.com (body, nav)
  • mattersburgerkreis.at (body)
  • mdpi.com (body)
  • mozilla.org (body)
  • muse.jhu.edu (body)
  • nature.com (body)
  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (body)
  • novapublishers.com (body)
  • online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk (body)
  • onlinelibrary.wiley.com (body)
  • orcid.org (body)
  • palgrave.com (body)
  • psppdknowledgerepository.org (body)
  • publichealthinafrica.org (body)
  • quaderna.org (body)

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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 20 October 2026, 08:23 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/gcro.ac.za.md.