saao.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). 29 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 2 sites.
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “SAAO | South African Astronomical Observatory”
- Language
- en
- Open Graph metadata
- no
- Homepage size
- 173 KB, 62 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: 207,059 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 29 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 2 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 3,359 of 207,059. 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
- 2,243 of 207,059. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 4,550 of 207,059. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 16,567 of 207,059. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 2 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 1,028 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 29 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to saao.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| capetowner.co.za | active | 1,872 | body |
| sansa.org.za | active | 1,966 | body |
| eduroam.ac.za | active | 10,855 | body |
| thusoresources.usaf.ac.za | active | 17,299 | body |
| suthweather.saao.ac.za | active | 19,686 | body |
| assabfn.co.za | active | 22,339 | body |
| ddp.co.za | active | 25,409 | body |
| vislab.idia.ac.za | active | 32,130 | body |
| sa3.ac.za | active | 48,027 | body |
| taaloord.co.za | active | 62,803 | body |
| sutherlandinfo.co.za | active | 67,371 | body |
| tommiemeyer.org.za | blocked | 68,331 | body |
| leeuwenboschfontein.co.za | active | 69,536 | body |
| rrsg.uct.ac.za | active | 73,697 | not recorded |
| io.saao.ac.za | active | 82,301 | body |
| shoc.saao.ac.za | active | 82,541 | body, header |
| visitsutherland.co.za | active | 93,305 | body |
| nicoc.co.za | active | 95,026 | body |
| astronomical.co.za | active | 104,840 | body |
| capelink.co.za | active | 113,725 | not recorded |
| events.saao.ac.za | active | 129,991 | body |
| isya2020.saao.ac.za | active | 145,027 | footer |
| lcao.co.za | active | 151,515 | body |
| rentaroom.co.za | active | 176,727 | body |
| rooikloof.co.za | active | 178,303 | body |
| sellyourbusiness.co.za | active | 182,204 | body |
| topswiki.saao.ac.za | active | 195,455 | body |
| vb-tech.co.za | active | 199,274 | not recorded |
| www.salt.ac.za | active | 205,231 | not recorded |
Links out: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| salt.ac.za | blocked | 2,371 | body |
| newsletters.saao.ac.za | active | 11,006 | nav |
Links leaving .za: 6 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- facebook.com (footer)
- goo.gl (footer)
- instagram.com (footer)
- linkedin.com (footer)
- twitter.com (footer)
- youtube.com (footer)
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 19 October 2026, 00:23 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/saao.ac.za.md.