Is there a way of finding how long a web page has been live for?

Question

Is the 'go live' date of a web page somewhere written in the page source code?

Answer 1

Hello

If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can easily determine when a page was updated last.



1. Navigate to the page you want to check.



2. In the Address Bar, type: javascript:alert(document.last Modified)

Make sure that there is No space between last and Modified one word... lastModified

3. Press Enter.



A message box displays the date and time of the last update. Note that you must enter the line exactly as shown above.

Answer 2

The source code of an HTML page doesn't have any connection with how long it's been up. Even if the author did put in the creation date - or used a tool that inserted it automatically - this doesn't tell you when it actually was put live on the web, just when they wrote it. They might for example have had it sitting around on their computer for months before they got round to uploading it to the server. Or the date might be from when they originally started writing the code, but it took ages to finish.

Answer 3

Try the bottom part of the web page's source code

Answer 4

Just a thought!

Google Caches pages, if they haven't changed in a while you'll know when the page was last Cached by Google.

You could also try this site to see if how far back they have an archive for your page:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Answer 5

If you search for 'Whois' - they have a record of most websites of when they are live etc. All you would have to do is enter the web address of the page concerned.

Answer 6

What I know is reading the page saying to ya so, but these pages are NOT found in all websites, only some.

Answer 7

no, web pages can be plain text so may not have any metatags or variables in it.



Pages generated with editors that give WTSIWYG tend to insert creation dates, these can of course be edited manually.