# merafong.gov.za: Palo census record

Palo, a census of the South African web by Dirišwago. Record: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/merafong.gov.za.md
As of the analysis on 27 October 2026, 06:26 SAST. Data licence: CC BY 4.0; credit "Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)".

## Summary

merafong.gov.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). 3 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 8 sites (7 of them in the analysed graph).

Website: https://merafong.gov.za/

## Recorded about the site

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

- Title: "Merafong City Local Municipality is under maintenance"
- Description: "We are doing some work on our site. Please come back later. We'll be up and running in no time."
- Language: en
- Open Graph metadata: yes
- Homepage size: 7 KB, 1 link
- 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: 288,213 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 7 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank: 77,128 of 288,213
- PageRank rank without footer-only links: 53,253 of 288,213
- PageRank rank between registered names: 47,585 of 288,213
- Betweenness rank: 19,036 of 288,213
- Sites reachable by following links: about 62,625 (estimated)
- Community: one of 4,338 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: 3 sites

Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to merafong.gov.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). "Seen in" is where on the linking pages the link appears.

| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| [municipalities.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/municipalities.co.za.md) | active | 7,276 | body |
| [rumas.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/rumas.co.za.md) | active | 33,916 | body |
| [wrdm.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/wrdm.gov.za.md) | active | 53,596 | body |

## Links out: 8 sites

Sites in the census that merafong.gov.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| [gauteng.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/gauteng.gov.za.md) | blocked | 1,030 | header |
| [salga.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/salga.org.za.md) | active | 1,527 | footer |
| [mogalecity.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/mogalecity.gov.za.md) | active | 47,392 | footer |
| [randwestcity.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/randwestcity.gov.za.md) | blocked | 52,414 | footer |
| [wrdm.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/wrdm.gov.za.md) | active | 53,596 | footer |
| [indigentregister.gauteng.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/indigentregister.gauteng.gov.za.md) | active | 83,030 | body, footer |
| [merafong.gauteng.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/merafong.gauteng.gov.za.md) | blocked | 102,894 | footer |
| [gis.merafong.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/gis.merafong.gov.za.md) | dead | – | body, footer |

## Links leaving .za: 3 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

- facebook.com (body, header)
- merafong.cabedocs.com (body, footer)
- twitter.com (header)

## Related

- Other sites in its zone (gov.za): https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/sites.md?zone=gov.za
- The shortest chain of links from it to another site, and back: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/path.md?from=merafong.gov.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/merafong.gov.za