Paul McEwan

Have you ever visited a site and wondered when it was last updated? In the past, it was a BIG thing to put a little script in your page so people could know when it was last updated. Today it’s not such a big problem with so many websites offering the date and time as part of the publishing procedure. Still, there are a lot of sites out there where the published date is not available and the content might be a bit stale. Purposefully not including the published info is more common than one might think because who wants to read that the content was last updated in 1999?

I’ve often found the need to see when a page was last modified, for one reason or another. I know how to do it, but the need to do so is usually few and far between, and by the time I need it again, I always forget. It’s a nice little tidbit to know and squirrel away somewhere – so I thought I’d squirrel it away here, when others can get use out of it.

Here’s what you do.

Simply copy this line: (the entire line as is)

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

and paste it into the address bar of the website you’re looking at. Hit the “Enter” button on your keyboard. Look at that! A little window pops up telling you the date and time the page was last updated.

Now bookmark this page and you’ll always be able to come back to it and use the info again.