# saasta.ac.za: Palo census record

Palo, a census of the South African web by Dirišwago. Record: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saasta.ac.za.md
As of the analysis on 18 October 2026, 10:22 SAST. Data licence: CC BY 4.0; credit "Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)".

## Summary

saasta.ac.za is in the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 17 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 27 sites in the census link to it (26 of them in the analysed graph), and it links to 3 sites (1 of them in the analysed graph).

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

## Recorded about the site

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

- Title: "SAASTA – South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA)"
- Language: en
- Open Graph metadata: no
- Homepage size: 246 KB, 68 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: 206,487 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

- Links in (in-degree): 26 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree): it links to 1 site in the graph
- PageRank rank: 3,423 of 206,487
- PageRank rank without footer-only links: 2,244 of 206,487
- PageRank rank between registered names: 3,124 of 206,487
- Betweenness rank: 27,096 of 206,487
- Sites reachable by following links: about 1 (estimated)
- Community: one of 4,102 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: 27 sites

Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to saasta.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). "Seen in" is where on the linking pages the link appears.

| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| [jivemedia.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/jivemedia.co.za.md) | active | 4,905 | not recorded |
| [questonline.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/questonline.org.za.md) | active | 6,164 | body |
| [olympus.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/olympus.org.za.md) | active | 7,719 | body |
| [eduroam.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/eduroam.ac.za.md) | active | 10,821 | body |
| [saiee.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saiee.org.za.md) | active | 11,978 | body |
| [nmbstc.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/nmbstc.co.za.md) | active | 13,355 | body |
| [assabfn.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/assabfn.co.za.md) | active | 22,231 | body |
| [sanap.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sanap.ac.za.md) | active | 28,930 | not recorded |
| [hoza.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/hoza.org.za.md) | active | 29,154 | body |
| [scopex.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/scopex.co.za.md) | active | 37,079 | body |
| [saastec.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/saastec.co.za.md) | active | 37,812 | body |
| [sibo.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sibo.co.za.md) | active | 41,554 | body |
| [astemi.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/astemi.co.za.md) | active | 42,348 | not recorded |
| [sani.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sani.org.za.md) | active | 70,324 | body |
| [physics.uj.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/physics.uj.ac.za.md) | active | 78,779 | body |
| [policyaction.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/policyaction.org.za.md) | active | 80,839 | body |
| [pub.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/pub.ac.za.md) | active | 82,612 | not recorded |
| [aviationdevelopment.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/aviationdevelopment.org.za.md) | active | 105,111 | body |
| [caroskaroo.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/caroskaroo.co.za.md) | active | 113,911 | body |
| [kaimara.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/kaimara.co.za.md) | active | 146,961 | body |
| [new.pub.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/new.pub.ac.za.md) | active | 163,479 | not recorded |
| [nstiip.naci.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/nstiip.naci.org.za.md) | active | 165,026 | body |
| [sciencetoday.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/sciencetoday.co.za.md) | active | 180,811 | body |
| [seims.dsi.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/seims.dsi.gov.za.md) | active | 181,521 | body |
| [shikinahmedia.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/shikinahmedia.co.za.md) | active | 182,457 | nav |
| [www.pub.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/www.pub.ac.za.md) | active | 204,605 | not recorded |
| [dst.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/dst.gov.za.md) | dead | – | body |

## Links out: 3 sites

Sites in the census that saasta.ac.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| [ess.nrf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/ess.nrf.ac.za.md) | active | 2,446 | not recorded |
| [nrf.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/nrf.ac.za.md) | dead | – | body, footer |
| [www2.saasta.ac.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/www2.saasta.ac.za.md) | dead | – | footer |

## Links leaving .za: 5 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

- africalive.net (body)
- facebook.com (header, footer)
- shorturl.at (body)
- twitter.com (header, footer)
- youtube.com (header, footer)

## Related

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