page last updated?

[mightymid]

Is there a way to find out when a site was last edited by the owner?

I understand that some SE's show the date on which the site was last updated but I assume that means updated in the engine's index.

Thanks,
MightyMid

[wruk999]

Hi MightyMind,

Firstly, Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]. be sure to read Marcia's welcome and guide to the basics.

As for you question re: last-modified date - unless the website shows it on the page (rarely see this myself) you can use the Header Checker over at SearchEngineWorld (Sister site to this one!), at: [searchengineworld.com...]

You can get similar tools for download, but this one works a treat ;)

Hope this helps,
wruk999

[wruk999]

<deleted>This is a great tool for checking last-modified dates ;) </deleted>

[Nick_W]

[web-caching.com...]

Nick

[jalarie]

You could just enter the following in the location bar:

javascript:alert(document.lastModified);

Be aware that some ISP's block that information and the displayed value then depends on the browser:

IE displays the CURRENT date and time.
NS display "Jan 1, 1970, 00:00:00" corrected for timezone.
Others have other results, some junk, some nothing.

[claus]

one small comment: all three methods will show a wrong result if the page (or part of it) is dynamically generated on the fly. It might be generated right-this-minute but updated ("edited by the owner") months ago.

/claus

[lefou]

[ do not know how to delete a post submitted twice, sorry ]

[edited by: lefou at 1:27 pm (utc) on July 15, 2003]

[lefou]

One question [out of topic maybe, a bit]:

I would like to insert some JavaScript in the html files on a site I administer, which will show the last date the file was SAVED (not uploaded to the server!). Is it possible? Like:

[some html] This page was last updated on [some JS - checks when the file was saved] 25/06/2003 [/JS]

for example.

Is it possible?

Thank you very much in advance!

[Hagstrom]

<p>This page was last updated on <script>document.write(document.lastModified); </script>

The time will probably be the time that you uploaded your file, since uploading implies saving.