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hsrc.ac.za?
Last seen Oct 2026 · 78 technologies across 29 categories
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AI Crawlers
Doesn't name any of the 33 AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt. Catch-all rules (User-agent: *) restrict some paths for every crawler, AI or not. Checked Nov 2026.
- robots.txt found
- llms.txt not found
- ai.txt not found
- Sep 2026 robots.txt appeared
- Sep 2026 * added to robots.txt
Top search keywords
| Keyword | Position | Est. monthly visits |
|---|---|---|
| human sciences research council | #1 | 150 |
| credible | #71 | 140 |
| hsrc | #2 | 78 |
| impact statement template | #2 | 18 |
| sasas | #6 | 16 |
| gender violence south africa | #2 | 15 |
| langa | #62 | 9 |
| illegal mining | #29 | 8 |
| sample impact statement | #17 | 6 |
| w20 | #12 | 5 |
| adam cooper | #30 | 5 |
| human sciences | #80 | 5 |
| czase | #4 | 5 |
| south africa statue | #5 | 3 |
| predatory publishers | #41 | 3 |
| cape town population | #55 | 2 |
| valentine 2017 | #66 | 2 |
| south africa violence | #43 | 2 |
| obesity rates in south africa | #5 | 2 |
| people perish for lack of vision | #74 | 2 |
| political coup | #85 | 2 |
| langa township | #14 | 2 |
| gtac | #78 | 2 |
| development impact factor | #91 | 2 |
| bawku conflict | #12 | 1 |
The site's top keywords in Google (US), with the visits each one is estimated to bring per month.
Top backlinks
Top links pointing at the site, one per source domain, strongest first. The anchor text opens the page carrying the link.
AI Crawlers
No AI crawlers blocked
Audience
- 55% desktop
- 45% phone
South Africa
United States
Where the site's Chrome visitors come from, largest estimated audience first.
Open Page Rank
6.94 / 10 · ranked #48,498 of all domains
575 referring domains · OpenPageRank
Search traffic
520 est. monthly organic visits (US)
397 keywords in Google's top 30
Core Web Vitals
| LCP | 4.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 |
| TTFB | 2800 ms |
Real user p75, Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026.
Page
- Language: English (South Africa)
- Weight: 4.3 MB · 51 requests
- WordPress theme: hsrc2022 · all themes
- Structured data: JSON-LD, OpenGraph, Twitter Cards
Homepage as crawled by the HTTP Archive, Oct 2026.
Organisation
- Human Sciences Research Council
- Country: South Africa
- Profiles: Facebook
From the homepage's own structured data (Oct 2026) and Wikidata (CC0).
Infrastructure
- Hosted on Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa - Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (152.112.253.50)
- DNS: hsrc.ac.za
- Email: Mimecast
- Email security: no SPF record, DMARC monitor only
- SSL: HARICA, RSA 4096, expires Mar 2027
- Common Crawl link graph: rank 433,250, 30 hosts
DNS records as swept Nov 2026, certificate as seen Nov 2026. How the web is hosted
Subdomains
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|---|---|
| africa-insight.hsrc.ac.za | 26 |
| www.hsrc.ac.za | 24 |
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| internportal.hsrc.ac.za | 10 |
| repository.hsrc.ac.za | 9 |
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| ktree.hsrc.ac.za | 6 |
| workspace.hsrc.ac.za | 6 |
| brief-submission.hsrc.ac.za | 4 |
| events.hsrc.ac.za | 4 |