# saao.ac.za: Palo census record

Palo, a census of the South African web by Dirišwago. Record: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saao.ac.za.md
As of the analysis on 11 November 2026, 03:08 SAST. Data licence: CC BY 4.0; credit "Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)".

Where it is: .za › ac.za › saao.ac.za

## The domain

saao.ac.za is a domain registered under ac.za. Status: active, the best status of its 74 sites (17 active, 1 unavailable, 1 blocked, 55 dead). Its own name is a site in the census, recorded below.

- Sites: 74
- Domains linking to it: 42 (41 in the graph of links between domains)
- Domains it links to: 27 (18 in the graph of links between domains)
- Links between its own sites: 34 (its internal structure, not links between domains)
- PageRank rank: 866 of 253,641 domains in the graph of links between domains
- Connected group: in the largest group of domains that can all reach one another by following links (26,485 domains)

### Linked from 42 domains

Links counts the links between the two domains' sites in that direction, seen in the 60 days before the latest analysis.

| Domain | Zone | Status | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| [salt.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/salt.ac.za.md) | ac.za | active | 4 |
| [assabfn.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/assabfn.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 2 |
| [astronomical.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astronomical.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 2 |
| [gatewayguides.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/gatewayguides.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 2 |
| [lcao.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/lcao.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 2 |
| [rooikloof.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/rooikloof.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 2 |
| [sfsa.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sfsa.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 2 |
| [assaf.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/assaf.org.za.md) | org.za | active | 1 |
| [astronomydurban.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astronomydurban.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |
| [astrotourism.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astrotourism.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |

10 of 42. All, 50 a page: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saao.ac.za/domains-in.md

### Links to 27 domains

Links counts the links between the two domains' sites in that direction, seen in the 60 days before the latest analysis.

| Domain | Zone | Status | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| [salt.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/salt.ac.za.md) | ac.za | active | 5 |
| [dha.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/dha.gov.za.md) | gov.za | active | 3 |
| [nrf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/nrf.ac.za.md) | ac.za | active | 3 |
| [idia.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/idia.ac.za.md) | ac.za | active | 2 |
| [airports.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/airports.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |
| [assabfn.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/assabfn.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |
| [astronomydurban.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astronomydurban.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |
| [banksia.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/banksia.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |
| [capepoint.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/capepoint.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |
| [carmichaelhouse.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/carmichaelhouse.co.za.md) | co.za | active | 1 |

10 of 27. All, 50 a page: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saao.ac.za/domains-out.md

### Its sites: 74

| Site | Status | Title it declares |
|---|---|---|
| [saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saao.ac.za.md) | active | "SAAO | South African Astronomical Observatory" |
| [aic.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/aic.saao.ac.za.md) | unavailable | none |
| [allinclusiveagn.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/allinclusiveagn.saao.ac.za.md) | dead | none |
| [amao.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/amao.saao.ac.za.md) | dead | none |
| [assa.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/assa.saao.ac.za.md) | active | "ASSA" |
| [astrofest.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astrofest.saao.ac.za.md) | active | none |
| [astrolab.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astrolab.saao.ac.za.md) | active | "ILIAS - ILIAS Login Page" |
| [astronomy2009.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astronomy2009.saao.ac.za.md) | dead | none |
| [astronomy2024capetown.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astronomy2024capetown.saao.ac.za.md) | dead | none |
| [cam1.saao.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/cam1.saao.ac.za.md) | dead | none |

10 of 74. All, 50 a page: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saao.ac.za/sites.md

## The site at saao.ac.za

### Summary

saao.ac.za is in the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 10 November 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 37 sites in the census link to it (32 of them in the analysed graph), and it links to 2 sites (1 of them in the analysed graph).

Website: https://www.saao.ac.za/

### Recorded about the site

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

- Title: "SAAO | South African Astronomical Observatory"
- Language: en
- Open Graph metadata: no
- Homepage size: 176 KB, 64 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; 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: 315,095 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

- Links in (in-degree): 32 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree): it links to 1 site in the graph
- PageRank rank: 922 of 315,095
- PageRank rank without footer-only links: 664 of 315,095
- PageRank rank between registered names: 133 of 315,095
- Betweenness rank: 13,627 of 315,095
- Sites reachable by following links: about 7 (estimated)
- Community: one of 10,233 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.

Every link of the site, with where on its pages it was seen: links in (37) https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saao.ac.za/links-in.md, links out (2) https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saao.ac.za/links-out.md

### 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): https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/sites.md?zone=ac.za
- Search the census: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/search.md?q={words}

## About these figures

- A domain is a name registered under a .za zone, such as uct.ac.za, with the sites under it, such as lib.uct.ac.za. Its status is the best of its sites': active, then unavailable, then blocked, then dead.
- Only links between .za sites in the census are counted; 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/saao.ac.za