所以前几天有人问我他前几天看到的网站有多大，我立即问他“年龄”是什么意思。如果您想知道网站的年龄，您可能会谈论域名(domain name)已经存在多长时间。
另一方面，您可能拥有一个已经存在十年的域，但多年来托管了由不同人拥有的不同网站。
在本文中，我将向您展示如何检查域的年龄，并检查该站点多年来是否发生了变化。十多年前我曾经关注的一个博客现在是一家初创公司的公司网站，因为原来的所有者卖掉了这个域名。
检查域名年龄
您可以查看一些免费工具，这些工具可为您提供域的大致年龄。域年龄工具(Domain Age Tool)只会给你域名(domain name)和域的年龄。
另一个名为Domain Age Checker的工具会告诉您域名(domain name)的创建时间，并为您提供域的年龄。我发现第二个工具更准确，至少对于我自己的网站来说是这样。
最后，如果您真的想查看详细信息，您可以随时使用Network Solutions之类的网站进行WHOIS 查询(WHOIS lookup)，除非该域是私下注册的，否则您可以查看它的创建时间：
因此，无论谁拥有该网站以及它拥有什么内容，您都可以通过这种方式查看网站的年龄。如果您想查看网站随时间的变化，或者只想查看最新所有者拥有该网站的时间，那么您可以使用不同的工具。
检查当前网站的年龄
为此，您必须使用Internet Archive WaybackMachine 之(WaybackMachine)类的东西。这是一个有点乏味的过程，但它确实是查看特定版本的网站存在多长时间的唯一方法。转到他们的网站并输入您要检查的URL ：
单击Browse History按钮，您将获得一个从 1996 年开始的漂亮的小时间线，其中显示了他们的服务器执行的爬网。在下面的日历中，您可以通过查看蓝色圆圈来查看哪些日期有快照。
单击(Click)特定日期，您可以看到该网站以前的样子：
如您所见，这就是OTT过去的样子！有什么不同！快照是随机的，可能会在很长一段时间内没有快照，因此您可能无法深入了解网站更改的确切日期，但这是您最接近确定类似内容的日期出去。
因此，这是检查网站年龄的两种方法，希望您能找到所需的信息。享受！
Check the Age of a Website
So someone asked me the other day how old a website was that he had seen the other day and I immediately asked what he meant by “age”. If you want to know the age of a website, you could be talking about how long thе domain name haѕ been around.
On the other hand, you could have a domain that’s been around for a decade, but has hosted different websites owned by different people over the years.
In this article, I’ll show you to check the age of the domain and also check to see if the site has changed over the years. One blog I used to follow over a decade ago is now the corporate site for a startup because the original owner sold off the domain.
Check Domain Name Age
You can check out some free tools that give you the approximate age of a domain. Domain Age Tool will just give you the domain name and the age of the domain.
Another tool called Domain Age Checker will tell you when the domain name was created and give you the age of the domain. I found this second tool to be more accurate, at least for my own sites.
Lastly, if you really want to see detailed info, you can always do a WHOIS lookup using a site like Network Solutions and unless the domain is registered privately, you can see when it was created:
So that’s how you can see the age of a website regardless of who owned the site and what content it had. If you want to see how the site changed over time or just see how long the latest owner has owned the website, then you can use a different tool.
Check Age of Current Website
To do this, you have to use something like Internet Archive WaybackMachine. It’s a little bit of a tedious process, but it’s really the only way to see how long a particular version of a website existed for. Go to their website and enter the URL you want to check:
Click on the Browse History button and you’ll get a nice little timeline starting from 1996 that shows the crawls performed by their servers. On the calendar below, you can see which days have snapshots by looking at the blue circles.
Click on a particular day and you can see what the website used to look like before:
As you can see, that’s what OTT used to look like! What a difference! The snapshots are kind of random and there can be long periods where there are no snapshots, so you might not be able to drill down to the exact date that a website was changed, but it’s the closest you’ll get to figuring something like that out.
So those are the two ways to check the age of a website and hopefully you find the information you need. Enjoy!
