Census · Site record
thenational.co.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). 11 sites in the census link to it (10 of them in the analysed graph), and it links to 0 sites.
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “The National”
- Language
- en
- schema.org types
- WebPage, BreadcrumbList
- Open Graph metadata
- yes
- Homepage size
- 620 KB, 69 links
- First seen
- 12 October 2026
- 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: 206,729 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 10 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 0 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 11,708 of 206,729. 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
- 3,877 of 206,729. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 8,720 of 206,729. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 187,247 of 206,729. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Community
- one of 6,096 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 11 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to thenational.co.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| businessreport.co.za | active | 609 | not recorded |
| thestar.co.za | active | 661 | body |
| asata.co.za | active | 1,428 | body |
| capetowner.co.za | active | 2,053 | body |
| abalonehotel.co.za | active | 26,047 | body |
| debtsolutions4u.co.za | active | 57,271 | body |
| agritrekker.co.za | active | 58,514 | body |
| lsf-sa.co.za | active | 85,310 | body |
| igd.org.za | active | 89,891 | body |
| sctsolutions.co.za | active | 181,335 | body |
| wcpdf.org.za | dead | – | body |
Links out: 0 sites
Its crawled pages link to no other .za site.
Links leaving .za: 5 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- google.com (footer)
- instagram.com (header, footer)
- newsteam.io (footer)
- tiktok.com (header, footer)
- x.com (header, footer)
Related
Other sites in its zone (co.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, 14:21 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/thenational.co.za.md.