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When was this page last updated? Some people wonder that very question from time to time. Certain information on the web is time sensitive & you don’t want to be using old information if its not relevant to what you want to do anymore.

This tip will show when a webpage was last updated using just one line of JavaScript in your browser address bar!

Read below how you can see when the last time a web page was updated.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Just visit the page you want to check (An example is: http://www.morethings.com/fan/the_shield/index.htm) & paste this code into your address bar and hit ENTER: javascript:alert(document.lastModified)

The code will display the last time a web page was updated displayed in a message box on your screen.

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More information:

This trick is mostly useful for pages that are not dynamic such as blogs & scripted pages. This tip works best with static HTM / HTML pages. The reason is that the dynamic pages are created on the fly at the instant you view them.

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