Census · Site record

vut.ac.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). 66 sites in the census link to it (64 of them in the analysed graph), and it links to 14 sites (10 of them in the analysed graph).

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Recorded about the site

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

Title: “Vaal University of Technology (VUT) | Home”
Description: “Vaal University of Technology - Leading innovation for a digitally-smart industrial transformation. VUT is a higher education institution in South Africa.”
Language: en
schema.org types: BreadcrumbList, LocalBusiness, Organization, WebPage, WebSite, Event
Open Graph metadata: yes
Homepage size: 834 KB, 118 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: 276,783 sites. Rank 1 is the highest.

Links in (in-degree): 64 sites in the graph link to it
Links out (out-degree): it links to 10 sites in the graph
PageRank rank: 4,096 of 276,783. 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: 2,605 of 276,783. The same, leaving out links only ever seen in a page footer
PageRank rank between registered names: 3,257 of 276,783. The same, leaving out links between sites under one registered name, such as x.co.za and shop.x.co.za
Betweenness rank: 516 of 276,783. How often the site lies on the shortest paths between others
Sites reachable by following links: about 56,516 (estimated)
Community: one of 6,060 sites in its Louvain community, a group more densely linked to each other than to the rest

Links in: 66 sites

Sites in the census whose crawled pages link to vut.ac.za, by PageRank rank (unranked last); 1 to 50 of 66. “Seen in” is where on the linking pages the link appears.

Site	Status	PageRank rank	Seen in
dhet.gov.za	active	328	body
usaf.ac.za	active	772	body
marketingsa.co.za	active	1,829	not recorded
chelsa.ac.za	active	2,951	body
unitalentza.co.za	active	3,409	body
safire.ac.za	active	4,668	body
hejobs.co.za	active	10,784	body
purcosa.co.za	active	13,095	body
eduroam.ac.za	active	15,260	body
fundisa.ac.za	active	22,396	body
research.vut.ac.za	active	22,842	body, nav, footer
heltasa.org.za	active	23,805	body
sauniversityteachers.org.za	active	24,389	body
sfsa.co.za	active	27,801	body
newssite.co.za	active	29,473	body
sanlic.ac.za	active	32,247	not recorded
fourwayshigh.co.za	active	37,591	body
universitylinks.co.za	active	42,048	not recorded
oaths.co.za	active	53,164	body
yiba.co.za	active	57,627	body
x2ycareerguidance.co.za	blocked	58,079	body
nba.co.za	active	59,103	body
sacea.org.za	active	59,601	not recorded
ieee.org.za	blocked	61,002	body
purq.co.za	active	61,057	body
eduatlas.co.za	active	65,376	body, nav
allbursaries.co.za	active	69,577	body
sacollierymanagers.org.za	active	73,891	body
evictions.org.za	active	74,098	body
nyosa.co.za	active	82,285	body
nstiip.naci.org.za	active	84,347	body
onlinecareerguidance.co.za	active	87,804	body
sachra.org.za	active	88,202	not recorded
sacafma.org.za	active	88,262	body
sahuda.ac.za	active	89,683	body
ewsetacareers.org.za	active	90,717	body
satnac.org.za	active	92,909	not recorded
wisestudent.co.za	active	92,945	not recorded
sani.org.za	active	96,116	body
hw-careers.co.za	active	101,581	not recorded
ispanitheplug.co.za	active	115,700	body
carnegie3.org.za	active	116,237	body
jozicaptions.co.za	active	121,201	body
saus.org.za	active	122,304	body
bursariesafrica.co.za	active	150,121	body
careerbus.co.za	active	152,872	body
csc.ac.za	active	162,177	body
dev.careersportal.co.za	active	166,052	body
eletsa.org.za	active	173,978	body
hedsa.org.za	active	192,242	body

Next 50 →

Links out: 14 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
timeslive.co.za	active	95	body
siteweb.co.za	active	188	footer
nrf.ac.za	active	228	body
dhet.gov.za	active	328	body
usaf.ac.za	active	772	body
forms.kdbs.co.za	blocked	17,152	body
research.vut.ac.za	active	22,842	nav
thensa.co.za	active	35,070	body
vut-research.ac.za	active	46,221	not recorded
vutfm.vut.ac.za	active	56,659	not recorded
heda.vut.ac.za	dead	–	body
ienablerprod.vut.ac.za	dead	–	header, nav
saqa.org.za	dead	–	body
statuscheck.vut.ac.za	dead	–	body, nav

Links leaving .za: 17 domains

Domains outside .za that its crawled pages link to:

accounts.google.com (nav)
docs.google.com (body)
facebook.com (footer)
flic.kr (body)
flickr.com (body, footer)
google.com (header)
instagram.com (body, footer)
linkedin.com (body, footer)
tiktok.com (footer)
twitter.com (footer)
vut.blackboard.com (header, nav)
vutcloud.sharepoint.com (body)
webometrics.org (body)
whatsapp.com (footer)
yesimadesigner.com (body)
youtube.com (body, footer)
yumpu.com (body)

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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 27 October 2026, 00:25 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/vut.ac.za.md.