Census · Site record
nrf.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). 212 sites in the census link to it (204 of them in the analysed graph), 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
- “National Research Foundation – Promoting and Supporting Research through Funding, Human Resource Development and the Provision of the Necessary Research Facili…”
- Language
- en
- Open Graph metadata
- no
- Homepage size
- 475 KB, 124 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: 227,877 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 204 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 7 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 192 of 227,877. 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
- 154 of 227,877. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 85 of 227,877. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 631 of 227,877. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 53,195 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 3,967 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 212 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to nrf.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last); 1 to 50 of 212. “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| businessday.co.za | active | 201 | body |
| saeon.ac.za | active | 866 | not recorded |
| sarao.ac.za | active | 884 | footer |
| research.ukzn.ac.za | active | 951 | body |
| aosis.co.za | active | 1,063 | not recorded |
| science.uct.ac.za | active | 1,142 | body, nav |
| saiab.ac.za | active | 1,672 | not recorded |
| dsti.gov.za | active | 1,694 | body |
| tia.org.za | active | 1,809 | body |
| wsg.ac.za | active | 2,348 | body |
| scm.sarao.ac.za | active | 2,514 | body, footer |
| tlabs.ac.za | active | 2,617 | body, header, nav, footer |
| news.mandela.ac.za | active | 2,775 | body |
| ewseta.org.za | active | 3,131 | not recorded |
| saasta.ac.za | active | 3,916 | body, footer |
| vut.ac.za | active | 3,931 | body |
| saambr.org.za | active | 4,886 | body |
| law.nwu.ac.za | active | 5,129 | not recorded |
| ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za | active | 6,313 | body |
| jivemedia.co.za | active | 6,352 | not recorded |
| fbip.co.za | active | 7,723 | body, footer |
| neuroscience.uct.ac.za | active | 7,760 | not recorded |
| enews.saeon.ac.za | active | 7,786 | footer |
| purcosa.co.za | active | 7,973 | body |
| commerce.ukzn.ac.za | active | 8,340 | not recorded |
| eduroam.ac.za | active | 12,653 | body |
| sajp.org.za | active | 12,716 | body |
| thejournal.org.za | active | 12,859 | body |
| olympus.org.za | active | 15,012 | body |
| sustainable.org.za | active | 15,422 | body |
| engineering.ukzn.ac.za | active | 16,579 | body |
| sancor.nrf.ac.za | active | 17,266 | body |
| news.uj.ac.za | active | 17,327 | body |
| efteon.saeon.ac.za | active | 18,615 | body |
| sfsa.co.za | active | 19,434 | body |
| research.vut.ac.za | active | 19,438 | body |
| sanlic.ac.za | active | 19,514 | not recorded |
| libraries.tut.ac.za | active | 20,032 | nav |
| saolympiadsinternational.co.za | active | 20,916 | body |
| repository.saeon.ac.za | blocked | 21,231 | not recorded |
| rd.mandela.ac.za | active | 21,234 | body |
| aecrs.usaf.ac.za | active | 21,457 | not recorded |
| sajid.co.za | active | 22,973 | body |
| hts.org.za | active | 23,156 | body |
| libguides.uwc.ac.za | active | 23,517 | body |
| mandelainitiative.org.za | active | 23,877 | body |
| sajesbm.co.za | active | 24,068 | body |
| sajce.co.za | active | 24,217 | body |
| asai.co.za | active | 24,255 | body |
| thusoresources.usaf.ac.za | active | 24,273 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| saao.ac.za | active | 777 | nav |
| saeon.ac.za | active | 866 | nav |
| sarao.ac.za | active | 884 | nav |
| ess.nrf.ac.za | active | 1,391 | nav, footer |
| saiab.ac.za | active | 1,672 | nav |
| nrfconnect.nrf.ac.za | active | 2,436 | body |
| tlabs.ac.za | active | 2,617 | nav |
| eqdb.nrf.ac.za | dead | – | nav |
Links leaving .za: 8 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- express.converia.de (body)
- facebook.com (body, footer)
- hfsp.org (body)
- linkedin.com (footer)
- proposalcentral.com (body)
- royalsociety.org (body)
- twitter.com (body, footer)
- youtube.com (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 22 October 2026, 12:25 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/nrf.ac.za.md.