Website updates - checking when

[EAFC_rdfl]

is there any way I can check when a website was last updated?sometimes it can be hard to tell whether info on a site is recent, or if its from a few years ago

[dahamsta]

Sometimes web servers send a last-updated header, but even that's not reliable. So basically, no.

[gustavo]

One very rough way of doing it would be to type the URL into web.archive.org/ and check if the information thats currently on the site is matched through all the different dates that site picks up

[EAFC_rdfl]

One very rough way of doing it would be to type the URL into web.archive.org/ and check if the information thats currently on the site is matched through all the different dates that site picks up
thats not bad at all, i also found this but it seems to return the date the site was last visited (i.e. when i loaded the page a few seconds previous to entering the command in the address bar):

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

once on a page, stick that in the address bar, and a pop up displays some info with a date

[dahamsta]

That'll work, but don't rely on the data returned.