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Content Freshness Checker
See when a page was published and last updated, according to every signal we can read, and whether it looks stale.
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What it checks
Published and updated dates
Read from JSON-LD, meta tags, microdata, time tags and visible text.
Page age
How long since the last update, and whether it may look stale.
Signals agree
Flags dates that are more than two days apart, or set in the future.
Sitemap lastmod
Finds this URL in your sitemap and compares its lastmod with the page.
Last-Modified header
Spots servers that stamp every response with the current time.
Footer copyright
An old © year tells visitors the site may not be kept up.
Questions
Does Google use the date on my page?
Yes. Google reads datePublished and dateModified in structured data, dates shown on the page and sitemap lastmod. When they disagree, it may show the wrong date in results, or none.
Should I change the updated date every time I edit?
Only when the content really changes, like new facts, steps or prices. Fixing a typo isn’t an update. Search engines learn to ignore dates that move without real changes.
Why is my Last-Modified header ignored?
Many servers send the current time on every request, so it says nothing about when the page changed. We spot that and label it as generated on request.
Why wasn’t my page found in the sitemap?
Large sites split sitemaps into many files. We follow robots.txt and your sitemap index into the files most likely to list the page, and stop after a few so the check stays fast.