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witspress.co.za

In the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 30 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 23 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 3 sites.

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Recorded about the site

Text in quotation marks is what the site declares about itself.

Title
“Wits University Press Home Page”
Description
“Discover a century of scholarly publishing from Wits University Press. Find African content with global impact across archaeology, politics, history, and the arts.”
Language
en
Open Graph metadata
yes
Homepage size
79 KB, 89 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: 318,317 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

Links in (in-degree)
23 sites in the graph link to it
Links out (out-degree)
it links to 3 sites in the graph
PageRank rank
1,429 of 318,317. 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
782 of 318,317. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
PageRank rank between registered names
974 of 318,317. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
Betweenness rank
1,072 of 318,317. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
Sites reachable by following links
about 63,629 (estimated)
Community
one of 12,625 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest

Links in: 23 sites

Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to witspress.co.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last). “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.

SiteStatusPageRank rankSeen in
polity.org.zaactive133header, nav
sacplan.org.zaactive4,455body
gcro.ac.zaactive15,918body
migration.org.zaactive38,060nav
sabtt.org.zaactive39,993body
thecommune.org.zaactive40,821body
nmsa.org.zaactive46,046body
ace.mandela.ac.zablocked51,800not recorded
shakespeare.org.zaactive53,890body
citylifearts.co.zaactive63,654body
waterstories.co.zaactive83,748not recorded
andriesbezuidenhout.co.zaactive86,369body
copac.org.zaactive99,334not recorded
cdn.gcro.ac.zaactive110,120not recorded
hownowbrowncow.co.zaactive124,378body
mayson.co.zaactive126,342body
mixtapes.org.zaactive127,510body
amritapande.co.zaactive150,429body
archivewitspress.co.zaactive152,632body
christinehobden.co.zaactive172,489body
isibheqe.org.zaactive219,340body
sajfp.org.zaactive274,033body
whatwedonotsee.co.zaactive312,863body

Links out: 3 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.

SiteStatusPageRank rankSeen in
wits.ac.zaactive120footer
polity.org.zaactive133body
jacana.co.zaactive2,569body

Links leaving .za: 5 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

  • caribbeanphilosophy.org (body)
  • facebook.com (body, footer)
  • instagram.com (footer)
  • orcid.org (body)
  • youtube.com (footer)

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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 31 October 2026, 00:12 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/witspress.co.za.md.