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Can you tell the last time a website was updated?

by Sonja
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Is there anyway to figure out the last time when someone elses website has been updated? With blogs there is some reasonable guess if comments are activated, but I've seen so many blogs lately with the "no date" code removed so you can't tell how outdated or fresh the information is. So does anyone know of way to determine this with both blogs and websites?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sonja
    So I did find this script, which you just put into the address bar after you reach the page you want. It pops up a little dialog box that shows the date. However, I was looking at a page that shows that it was posted over 2 years ago. There are no comments on the page. I ran the script and it shows today's date.

    So that is weird and it makes me wonder if there is some program running in the background on this site to keep the pages fresh even though there hasn't been an update to it in 2 years, or this darn script isn't doing what it is supposed to.

    Here is the script:
    javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by Sonja View Post

      So I did find this script, which you just put into the address bar after you reach the page you want. It pops up a little dialog box that shows the date. However, I was looking at a page that shows that it was posted over 2 years ago. There are no comments on the page. I ran the script and it shows today's date.

      So that is weird and it makes me wonder if there is some program running in the background on this site to keep the pages fresh even though there hasn't been an update to it in 2 years, or this darn script isn't doing what it is supposed to.

      Here is the script:
      javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
      That is probably because the page you tried it on was dynamically-generated (i.e. PHP or ASP based, etc), and as such, was actually "created" just milliseconds before it loaded in your browser.

      You will generally only get a "creation" or "modified" date from flat-HTML files - not from dynamically-generated pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dadelius
    Depending on whether or not they have a sitemap installed you could just add sitemap.xml to the end, and check the dates on the posts that way!
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    • Profile picture of the author Sonja
      Originally Posted by Dadelius View Post

      Depending on whether or not they have a sitemap installed you could just add sitemap.xml to the end, and check the dates on the posts that way!
      ROFLMAO!!! Sometimes the obvious just ain't so obvious now is it? And isn't just the simplest of things we can make so complicated?

      Well that worked like a charm!

      Couldn't see the forest because all the damn trees were in the way

      Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Dadelius
    You know I probably wouldn't have thought of it, except that I'm playing around with mine at the moment! But really glad I could help!
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