idia.ac.za
In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 22 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 8 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 8 sites (7 of them in the analysed graph).
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “IDIA | Data-Intensive Astronomy, MeerKAT Science and Research Infrastructure”
- Description
- “IDIA is an inter-university partnership advancing data-intensive astronomy, MeerKAT science, research infrastructure and skills development in South Africa.”
- Language
- en
- schema.org types
- WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, WebSite, Organization
- Open Graph metadata
- yes
- Homepage size
- 139 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: 236,233 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 8 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 7 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 26,627 of 236,233. 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
- 16,556 of 236,233. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 35,082 of 236,233. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 12,887 of 236,233. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 61,531 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 5,572 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 8 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to idia.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| safire.ac.za | active | 4,236 | body |
| ilifu.ac.za | active | 23,739 | body |
| sfsa.co.za | active | 24,786 | body |
| eresearch.uwc.ac.za | active | 35,673 | body |
| vislab.idia.ac.za | active | 49,007 | body |
| archive.sarao.ac.za | active | 124,333 | body |
| gateway.idia.ac.za | active | 158,101 | body, footer |
| sa3.ac.za | active | 206,850 | body |
Links out: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| uct.ac.za | active | 39 | body |
| uwc.ac.za | active | 277 | body |
| sarao.ac.za | active | 956 | body |
| science.uct.ac.za | active | 1,337 | body |
| ilifu.ac.za | active | 23,739 | body |
| docs.ilifu.ac.za | active | 43,538 | body |
| vislab.idia.ac.za | active | 49,007 | body |
| up.ac.za | dead | – | body |
Links leaving .za: 21 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- apod.nasa.gov (body)
- astronomy2024.org (body)
- cartavis.github.io (body)
- cartavis.org (body)
- doi.org (body)
- drive.google.com (nav)
- facebook.com (nav, footer)
- github.com (body)
- idavie.readthedocs.io (body)
- idia-pipelines.github.io (body)
- idia.us10.list-manage.com (body)
- instagram.com (nav, footer)
- linkedin.com (nav, footer)
- lucia-marchetti.github.io (body)
- mailchi.mp (body, nav)
- mattiavaccari.net (body)
- mhongoose.astron.nl (body)
- ror.org (body, footer)
- ui.adsabs.harvard.edu (nav)
- youtube.com (body)
- zenodo.org (body, footer)
Related
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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 23 October 2026, 12:26 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/idia.ac.za.md.