How can you Find out When a Webpage was created

Determining when a webpage was created can be useful for various reasons, such as verifying the accuracy of the information, understanding the context of the content, and accessing the relevance of the information. There are several ways to check when a webpage was created let's start one by one. 

Ways to find out when a webpage was created: 

1. Check out the website URL: 

One of the easiest ways to find out when a webpage was created is by looking website URL in some cases, there will be a date and year mentioned in the URL. Note that all websites don't have published and updated dates. When you look at the edited date, it mainly comes at the beginning or the end of the article. However, you can check at the bottom for the copyright right date. 

2. Check the source code: 

The source code will help you to discover many of the different website aspects, for example, the public page, the Link of the images, the title of the page description of the page meta tags, and many more. However, most of the information is still unavailable, so here's how you can find out when the website was created. 


  • First, to view, you have to right-click and select view page source. The default shortcut of this option is ctrl + U on windows and command + U on MAC.

  • The website source command appears on the new tab press Ctrl + F to open the find function. 

  • Now, to find the publish, it would be better to just press F and type publish in the search box. 

  • The terms you are looking for are the publishing date you can find out when the website was last published or updated. 

3. WHO IS database search: 

WHO IS database search is one of the best, easiest, and finest ways to find out when a website is published. In the WHO IS database, you will find out who published the site and also the location. Let me tell you how you can find out step by step in the WHO IS database. 


1. Visit the WHO IS database, copy the website URL and paste the website URL In the search bar and click search. 

2. Scroll down and look for the registered date. 

4. Use “Carbon Dating the Web”: 

This is a free service called carbon dating the web helps to find out the approximate date of website launch. This tool is free and easy to use but it takes some time to get the result. This tool has a success rate of 75% when a developer tested on the pages on the known creation date.  

Conclusion 

Well, it's worth noting that not all websites include the creation and modification date in their metadata, and the information may not be accurate even when they do. However, using the above methods gives you a  good idea of when a webpage was created and last updated. 

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