# rock.co.za: Palo census record

Palo, a census of the South African web by Dirišwago. Record: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/rock.co.za.md
As of the analysis on 25 October 2026, 22:25 SAST. Data licence: CC BY 4.0; credit "Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)".

## Summary

rock.co.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). 5 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 8 sites (6 of them in the analysed graph).

Website: http://rock.co.za/

## Recorded about the site

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

- 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); Common Crawl (crawl CC-MAIN-2026-43); 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: 239,961 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 6 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank: 32,215 of 239,961
- PageRank rank without footer-only links: 12,653 of 239,961
- PageRank rank between registered names: 17,189 of 239,961
- Betweenness rank: 6,456 of 239,961
- Sites reachable by following links: about 54,740 (estimated)
- Community: one of 2,400 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: 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](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/mabuvinyl.co.za.md) | active | 44,243 | body |
| [sugarmusic.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sugarmusic.co.za.md) | active | 80,411 | body, footer |
| [neillsolomon.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/neillsolomon.co.za.md) | active | 88,431 | body |
| [stephensymons.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/stephensymons.co.za.md) | blocked | 92,253 | not recorded |
| [littlesister.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/littlesister.co.za.md) | active | 183,703 | body |

## Links out: 8 sites

Sites in the census that rock.co.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| [currin.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/currin.co.za.md) | active | 25,166 | body |
| [retrofresh.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/retrofresh.co.za.md) | active | 36,414 | body |
| [jackhammer.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/jackhammer.co.za.md) | active | 80,409 | body |
| [radiorats.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/radiorats.co.za.md) | active | 80,410 | body |
| [sugarmusic.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sugarmusic.co.za.md) | active | 80,411 | body |
| [webmarketer.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/webmarketer.co.za.md) | active | 80,412 | body |
| [freshmusic.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/freshmusic.co.za.md) | not yet visited | – | body |
| [jamesonline.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/jamesonline.co.za.md) | 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

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