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Each prompt asks a question and gives an AI assistant the links to the census pages that answer it, so it reads Palo's figures instead of guessing. Open a prompt in one of these assistants, or copy it into any other. The answer is the assistant's own; check it against the pages it cites.

About a site

What does the census record about a site?

Use Palo, a census of the South African web, to tell me what it records about {domain}: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/{domain}.md. Include its status, which .za sites link to it and which it links to, and its place in the link graph. Say which analysis the figures come from.

Compare two sites

Use Palo, a census of the South African web, to compare {domain} and {other}, from their census records: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/{domain}.md and https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/explore/{other}.md. Compare their status, the .za sites that link to each, and their places in the link graph. Say which analysis the figures come from.

Across the census

The sites in a zone

Using Palo, a census of the South African web, list the active sites in the zone {zone}, from https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/sites.md?zone={zone}&status=active, in the order given there. Say how many there are, and which analysis the figures come from.

The most linked-to sites

Read the ranking of .za sites by PageRank from Palo, a census of the South African web, at https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/top/pagerank.md, the same without footer-only links at https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/top/pagerank-body.md, and the same between registered names at https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/top/pagerank-between-names.md. Describe which sites rank highest in each and how the three rankings differ. Include what PageRank does and does not measure, and say which analysis the figures come from.

How do two sites connect?

Use Palo, a census of the South African web, to find how {domain} and {other} are connected by links between .za sites: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/path.md?from={domain}&to={other}. Describe the chain of links in each direction, if there is one, and say which analysis it comes from.

The .za web

The .za web today

Read the census summary of Palo, a census of the South African web: https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/api/summary. Describe the South African web as it records it: how many sites there are, their status, and how they link to one another. Include what the census does not observe, and say which analysis the figures come from.

How has the .za web changed?

Using Palo, a census of the South African web, describe how its figures have changed since June 2026. The figures for each day are at https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/api/timeline.csv, and the changes to how the census counts are at https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/api/events. Take those changes into account when reading the figures, and say which days the figures come from.

Islands and unrecognised sites

Read https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/connection.md from Palo, a census of the South African web, and explain what it shows about .za sites that no other .za site links to. Include what the measure does not see, and say which days the figures come from.

A measure over time

Read https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/census/{measure}.md from Palo, a census of the South African web, and explain what it shows. Include what the measure does not see and any changes to how the census counted during the period, and say which days the figures come from.

About the census

How was this measured?

Read how Palo, a census of the South African web, finds and visits sites and what it records, at https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/about, and the methods and limitations in its summary at https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/api/summary. Explain how the census is made, and what it can and cannot tell me.

How do I cite this?

Read https://palo.dirishwago.co.za/llms.txt and tell me how to cite Palo, a census of the South African web, and its data, and what its licence allows.

About these prompts

  • The buttons open the assistant's own site in a new tab, with the prompt filled in. Some send it straight away, some wait for you to press send. ChatGPT, Claude and the others may need you to sign in.
  • Assistants not listed here, such as Gemini and DeepSeek, cannot be given a prompt in a link: copy it and paste it in.
  • Palo counts how many times each prompt is opened in each assistant, or copied. It records nothing else: not the site you typed, and nothing about you.
  • The prompts are also available as Markdown, and llms.txt describes everything an assistant can read.