Census · Site record
thestar.co.za
In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 27 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 55 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 17 sites.
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “The Star: Daily coverage of Johannesburg, Gauteng and National News, Politics, Sport & Business”
- Description
- “Stay up to date with The Star – your trusted source for South African news, breaking stories, politics, sport, and opinion.”
- Language
- en
- schema.org types
- Organization, WebSite, BreadcrumbList
- Open Graph metadata
- yes
- Homepage size
- 204 KB, 62 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: 309,514 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 55 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 17 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 994 of 309,514. 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
- 1,605 of 309,514. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 671 of 309,514. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 4,226 of 309,514. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 60,523 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 8,341 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 55 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to thestar.co.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last); 1 to 50 of 55. “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| iol.co.za | active | 38 | body |
| globex.co.za | active | 764 | nav |
| businessreport.co.za | active | 871 | footer |
| themercury.co.za | active | 1,006 | footer |
| capeargus.co.za | active | 1,061 | footer |
| dailyvoice.co.za | active | 1,127 | footer |
| dailynews.co.za | active | 1,145 | footer |
| capetimes.co.za | active | 1,175 | footer |
| independentonsaturday.co.za | active | 1,178 | footer |
| sundayindependent.co.za | active | 1,181 | footer |
| thepost.co.za | active | 1,211 | footer |
| weekendargus.co.za | active | 1,219 | footer |
| sundaytribune.co.za | active | 1,226 | footer |
| isolezwe.co.za | active | 1,233 | footer |
| pretorianews.co.za | active | 1,266 | footer |
| saturdaystar.co.za | active | 1,278 | footer |
| jeqe.co.za | active | 8,252 | body |
| nhn.co.za | active | 14,001 | body |
| pedalpower.org.za | active | 18,420 | not recorded |
| bassanis.co.za | active | 23,253 | body |
| untold.snapson7th.co.za | active | 24,725 | body |
| debtsolutions4u.co.za | active | 30,408 | body |
| iej.org.za | active | 36,435 | body |
| shenge.co.za | active | 40,080 | body |
| persfin.co.za | active | 42,181 | footer |
| ourcitynews.co.za | active | 47,818 | body |
| isicongo.co.za | active | 49,080 | body |
| magic828.co.za | active | 52,652 | not recorded |
| go-gogo-go.org.za | active | 57,005 | body |
| news.wanejobets.co.za | active | 66,722 | body |
| striderdigital.co.za | active | 72,926 | body |
| snapson7th.co.za | active | 76,707 | body |
| impempe.corruptionwatch.org.za | active | 77,985 | body |
| albany.co.za | active | 81,956 | body |
| slayingthestandard.co.za | active | 92,259 | body |
| aprav.co.za | blocked | 102,852 | body |
| centennialschools.co.za | active | 103,543 | body |
| womencan.co.za | active | 104,016 | body |
| diabetesalliance.org.za | active | 105,179 | body |
| lsf-sa.co.za | active | 116,225 | body |
| casinoslots.co.za | active | 117,080 | body |
| pulse.snapson7th.co.za | active | 120,013 | body |
| flightmateza.co.za | active | 188,476 | body |
| herberttheledi.co.za | active | 200,911 | body |
| iss-investigations.co.za | active | 211,333 | body |
| linguafrancapublishers.co.za | active | 224,297 | body |
| madeinafricaevent.co.za | blocked | 227,462 | not recorded |
| mbalimapholiinc.co.za | active | 230,535 | body |
| obgyndurban.co.za | active | 244,300 | body |
| pivotpsychology.co.za | active | 251,667 | body |
Links out: 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| iol.co.za | active | 38 | body |
| businessreport.co.za | active | 871 | footer |
| themercury.co.za | active | 1,006 | footer |
| capeargus.co.za | active | 1,061 | footer |
| dailyvoice.co.za | active | 1,127 | footer |
| dailynews.co.za | active | 1,145 | footer |
| capetimes.co.za | active | 1,175 | footer |
| independentonsaturday.co.za | active | 1,178 | footer |
| sundayindependent.co.za | active | 1,181 | footer |
| thepost.co.za | active | 1,211 | footer |
| weekendargus.co.za | active | 1,219 | footer |
| sundaytribune.co.za | active | 1,226 | footer |
| isolezwe.co.za | active | 1,233 | footer |
| pretorianews.co.za | active | 1,266 | footer |
| saturdaystar.co.za | active | 1,278 | footer |
| cadbury.co.za | active | 3,924 | not recorded |
| thenational.co.za | active | 8,655 | body |
Links leaving .za: 9 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- facebook.com (body, header, footer)
- google.com (body, header, footer)
- instagram.com (header, footer)
- kaizerchiefs.com (body)
- news.google.com (body, header, footer)
- tiktok.com (header, footer)
- twitter.com (body)
- x.com (header, footer)
- youtube.com (header, footer)
Related
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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 28 October 2026, 00:26 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/thestar.co.za.md.