Reports, updates and posts
Dated writing about the census: what it found, and how it changed. Each keeps its figures as they were when it was published. Follow by feed.
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How the analysis changed
On 16 October 2026 Palo moved its graph analysis to a faster library. Betweenness is now exact, PageRank is now fully worked out, and reach was corrected for more than 32,000 sites. What changed, and by how much.
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Malformed names removed from the census
On 15 October 2026 Palo removed 4,434 entries that were not single website names, most of them counted as dead. What they were, and how the figures moved.
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Reading the census, for people and AI assistants
Every site in the census now has a record, the census can be searched, listed and ranked, and all of it can be read by AI assistants as well as people. Hlahlatha was retired. What changed, and where to find it.
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How the counting changed
In October 2026 Palo changed how it decides whether a site is alive, read a new source of domains, and began recording more about each site. What changed, and by how much.
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The .za web, September 2026
The essay that opened Palo until October 2026: what the census found under its first counting rules.