# ws.dws.gov.za: Palo census record

Palo, a census of the South African web by Dirišwago. Record: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/ws.dws.gov.za.md
As of the analysis on 29 October 2026, 08:30 SAST. Data licence: CC BY 4.0; credit "Palo, Dirišwago (palo.dirishwago.co.za)".

## Summary

ws.dws.gov.za is in the census. Status: active when Palo last checked it, on 29 October 2026 (the homepage answered with a page, directly or after redirects). 11 sites in the census link to it, and it links to 5 sites (1 of them in the analysed graph).

Website: https://ws.dws.gov.za/

## Recorded about the site

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

- Language: none declared
- Open Graph metadata: no
- Homepage size: 61 KB, 28 links
- First seen: before 12 October 2026 (not recorded earlier)
- Listed by: 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: 312,274 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

- Links in (in-degree): 11 sites in the graph link to it
- Links out (out-degree): it links to 1 site in the graph
- PageRank rank: 7,476 of 312,274
- PageRank rank without footer-only links: 5,278 of 312,274
- PageRank rank between registered names: 13,411 of 312,274
- Betweenness rank: 52,199 of 312,274
- Sites reachable by following links: about 3 (estimated)
- Community: one of 8,861 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: 11 sites

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

| Site | Status | PageRank rank | Seen in |
|---|---|---|---|
| [dws.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/dws.gov.za.md) | active | 977 | body |
| [tracker.blsa.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/tracker.blsa.org.za.md) | active | 8,248 | body |
| [george.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/george.gov.za.md) | active | 29,692 | body |
| [watercan.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/watercan.org.za.md) | active | 30,556 | body, footer |
| [futureofsustainability.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/futureofsustainability.co.za.md) | active | 58,532 | not recorded |
| [elasa.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/elasa.co.za.md) | active | 67,584 | body |
| [riaanroux.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/riaanroux.co.za.md) | active | 73,564 | body |
| [ws.dwa.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/ws.dwa.gov.za.md) | active | 80,447 | not recorded |
| [water-wazi.openup.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/water-wazi.openup.org.za.md) | active | 83,979 | footer |
| [climatesmartnmb.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/climatesmartnmb.co.za.md) | active | 90,500 | body |
| [swpn.org.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/swpn.org.za.md) | active | 286,635 | header |

## Links out: 5 sites

Sites in the census that ws.dws.gov.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| [dffe.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/dffe.gov.za.md) | active | 491 | body |
| [clemsnet.co.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/clemsnet.co.za.md) | not yet visited | – | body |
| [csggis.drdlr.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/csggis.drdlr.gov.za.md) | dead | – | body |
| [dwa.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/dwa.gov.za.md) | dead | – | body |
| [environment.gov.za](https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/environment.gov.za.md) | dead | – | body |

## Links leaving .za: 0 domains

None recorded. These are recorded from 12 October 2026, as sites are crawled.

## Related

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