Census · Site record

plaas.org.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). 11 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 18 sites (16 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
“PLAAS | Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies”
Description
“Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. PLAAS does research, policy engagement & training about the dynamics of chronic poverty in Southern Africa”
Language
en
schema.org types
WebPage, BreadcrumbList, WebSite
Open Graph metadata
yes
Homepage size
955 KB, 79 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: 207,306 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 16 sites in the graph
PageRank rank
30,086 of 207,306. 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
23,923 of 207,306. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
PageRank rank between registered names
25,665 of 207,306. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
Betweenness rank
2,609 of 207,306. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
Sites reachable by following links
about 50,068 (estimated)
Community
one of 6,852 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 plaas.org.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.

SiteStatusPageRank rankSeen in
nu.org.zaactive13,294body
agribook.co.zaactive16,976body
adigital.co.zaactive20,837body
smartagriot.co.zaactive27,778not recorded
pmbejd.org.zaactive38,715not recorded
aet.org.zaactive41,445not recorded
elasa.co.zaactive43,009not recorded
nkuzi.org.zaactive73,611not recorded
carnegie3.org.zaactive90,221body
radicaleconomictransformation.co.zaactive175,335not recorded
workersinternational.org.zaactive204,166not recorded

Links out: 18 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
woww.co.zaactive24footer
uct.ac.zaactive28not recorded
parliament.gov.zaactive29not recorded
mg.co.zaactive70not recorded
wits.ac.zaactive83not recorded
ukzn.ac.zaactive134not recorded
uwc.ac.zaactive195not recorded
hsrcpress.ac.zaactive1,035not recorded
books.google.co.zaactive1,569not recorded
tshisimani.org.zaactive21,305not recorded
spp.org.zaactive21,368not recorded
afra.co.zaactive23,780not recorded
repository.uwc.ac.zaactive31,211not recorded
ardt.org.zaactive40,975not recorded
reclaimthecity.org.zaactive51,644not recorded
brc21.co.zablocked80,903not recorded
gov.zadead–not recorded
up.ac.zadead–not recorded

Links leaving .za: 3 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

  • facebook.com (footer)
  • twitter.com (footer)
  • youtube.com (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 19 October 2026, 06:20 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/plaas.org.za.md.