obiter.mandela.ac.za
In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 17 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 6 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 7 sites.
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “Obiter”
- Description
- “Obiter is published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law, Nelson Mandela University. It is a fully DHET (SA Dept. of Higher Education and Training) accredited journal publishing articles on topical legal issues and legal research.”
- Language
- en
- Open Graph metadata
- no
- Homepage size
- 20 KB, 45 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: 202,662 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 6 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 7 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 15,019 of 202,662. 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
- 12,274 of 202,662. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 9,578 of 202,662. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 3,405 of 202,662. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 46,300 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 3,497 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 6 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to obiter.mandela.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| journals.assaf.org.za | active | 2,730 | body |
| contracts4biz.co.za | active | 4,989 | body |
| cybercircuit.co.za | active | 5,311 | body |
| law.mandela.ac.za | active | 14,576 | body |
| perjournal.co.za | active | 29,998 | not recorded |
| cristal.ac.za | active | 70,758 | body |
Links out: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| popia.co.za | active | 10 | body |
| assaf.org.za | active | 372 | footer |
| journals.co.za | blocked | 588 | body, nav |
| journals.assaf.org.za | active | 2,730 | body |
| sajs.co.za | active | 4,870 | body |
| law.mandela.ac.za | active | 14,576 | body |
| mercantilelaw.mandela.ac.za | active | 27,942 | body |
Links leaving .za: 9 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- creativecommons.org (body)
- doaj.org (body)
- doi.org (body)
- gdpr.eu (body)
- orcid.org (body)
- plu.mx (body)
- portal.issn.org (body)
- ror.org (body)
- scholar.google.com (body)
Related
Other sites in its zone (ac.za) · Search the census
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 17 October 2026, 18:21 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/obiter.mandela.ac.za.md.