viewfinder.org.za
In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 25 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 6 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 8 sites (7 of them in the analysed graph).
Recorded about the site
Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.
- Title
- “Home - Viewfinder”
- Description
- “Viewfinder is a non-profit organisation that seeks to strengthen investigative journalism in southern Africa through original reporting, training, editing and collaboration with like-minded organisations. Viewfinder is a non-profit organisation that seeks to strengthen investigative journalism in s…”
- Language
- en
- schema.org types
- WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, WebSite
- Open Graph metadata
- yes
- Homepage size
- 134 KB, 37 links
- First seen
- 12 October 2026, found through Common Crawl (crawl CC-MAIN-2026-39)
- Listed by
- Common Crawl (crawl CC-MAIN-2026-39); Common Crawl (crawl CC-MAIN-2026-43); 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: 238,389 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.
- Links in (in-degree)
- 6 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree)
- it links to 7 sites in the graph
- PageRank rank
- 32,081 of 238,389. 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
- 17,487 of 238,389. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
- PageRank rank between registered names
- 17,152 of 238,389. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
- Betweenness rank
- 11,255 of 238,389. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
- Sites reachable by following links
- about 57,891 (estimated)
- Community
- one of 7,580 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest
Links in: 6 sites
Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to viewfinder.org.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.
| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| mediahack.co.za | active | 27,937 | not recorded |
| journalism.co.za | blocked | 29,584 | not recorded |
| henrynxumalofoundation.co.za | active | 56,204 | body |
| femssisa.co.za | active | 66,446 | not recorded |
| policeaccountabilitytracker.co.za | active | 75,593 | body |
| femssisa.org.za | blocked | 101,930 | not recorded |
Links out: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dailymaverick.co.za | active | 72 | body |
| sowetan.co.za | active | 239 | body |
| groundup.org.za | active | 895 | body |
| politicsweb.co.za | active | 3,339 | header |
| journalism.co.za | blocked | 29,584 | header |
| henrynxumalofoundation.co.za | active | 56,204 | header |
| policeaccountabilitytracker.co.za | active | 75,593 | body, header |
| staging2.viewfinder.org.za | dead | – | body |
Links leaving .za: 13 domains
Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:
- dstv.com (body)
- facebook.com (body)
- fjawards.com (header)
- gijn.org (body, header)
- guardiansun.co.bw (body)
- https (body)
- instagram.com (body)
- linkedin.com (body)
- news24.com (body)
- nytimes.com (body)
- oxpeckers.org (header)
- twitter.com (body)
- youtube.com (body)
Related
Other sites in its zone (org.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 25 October 2026, 05:17 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/viewfinder.org.za.md.