rock.co.za
In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 20 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 5 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 8 sites (5 of them in the analysed graph).
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “The South African Rock Encyclopedia”
- Description
- “The online South African Rock Encyclopedia covers the history of South African rock music from the 1950s up to the early 2000s”
- Language
- en
- Open Graph metadata
- no
- Homepage size
- 6 KB, 14 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
Position in the link graph
The graph holds the active and blocked sites in the census and the links between them: 213,819 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 5 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 5 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 25,224 of 213,819. 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
- 13,102 of 213,819. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 19,417 of 213,819. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 6,630 of 213,819. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 59,597 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 490 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 5 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to rock.co.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| mabuvinyl.co.za | active | 34,503 | body |
| sugarmusic.co.za | active | 57,830 | body, footer |
| neillsolomon.co.za | active | 73,387 | body |
| stephensymons.co.za | blocked | 76,991 | not recorded |
| www.sugarmusic.co.za | active | 212,091 | body, footer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| currin.co.za | active | 17,268 | body |
| retrofresh.co.za | active | 24,399 | body |
| sugarmusic.co.za | active | 57,830 | body |
| jackhammer.co.za | active | 63,890 | body |
| radiorats.co.za | active | 63,891 | body |
| freshmusic.co.za | not yet visited | – | body |
| jamesonline.co.za | not yet visited | – | body |
| webmarketer.co.za | not yet visited | – | body |
Links leaving .za: 15 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- addthis.com (body)
- briancurrin.com (body, footer)
- briancurrin.wordpress.com (body)
- mixcloud.com (body)
- open.spotify.com (body)
- pietbotha.com (body)
- sacharts.wordpress.com (body)
- samp3.com (body)
- sarockdigest.com (body)
- sarockmusic.com (nav, footer)
- stevelouw.com (body)
- sugarman.org (body, footer)
- sugarmusicnews.wordpress.com (body)
- w3schools.com (footer)
- youtube.com (body)
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 21 October 2026, 16:25 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/rock.co.za.md.