Two ways to view website history: website history and snapshot

Today, a classmate asked Lao Wei: How about View Site History ？ Let Lao Wei remember the method he used many years ago, and he hasn't checked the history of the website for many years. So today I will share two ways to view the website history: website history and snapshot.

This student wants to buy a second-hand domain name. Before placing an order, he wants to check what the domain name has done before, whether there is any illegal record, who has been punished, who has been K, etc. Or you are interested in any domain name. You want to know when this domain name has been used and what changes have taken place over the years. At this time, no records can be found using the webmaster's tools.

1. Site History Query

There is a website that can view the history of websites around the world. Its name is waybackmachine (Internet Archive), and its domain name is web.archinve.org. It stores all the historical snapshots of websites around the world that can be searched.

• The Internet Archive keeps all the website information, as long as he can capture it, it will be saved. The main collected website resources come from Alexa and other websites. If your website is not included, you can also actively add it to the Internet Archive.
• The Internet Archive, located in the United States, is a non-profit information resource library, which is free and open to users around the world.
• It will regularly collect and permanently save the information allowed to be crawled on global websites. Large websites are crawled more frequently, while small websites are rare.

This website can only be opened by using a foreign IP address.

The method is very simple. Enter the domain name to query and press Enter.

You will soon see the history of domain name websites, divided by year and month.

As shown in the figure below, 55 times were captured from 2013 to 2021,

Click the year in the figure to reach the corresponding page.

As shown in the figure below, all captured snapshot records have a background color on the specific date.

In 2013, the domain vpss.net was built as a website without knowing what to do, leaving only one title.

At this time, we can see the snapshot of the home page of Weiss's notes taken at 13:12:06 on April 22, 2017.

It is made with the big front end D8 theme and has a neat layout.

This website can even retain the text, pictures, links, styles, text colors, etc. of the website being crawled, which is a snapshot of the website history.

You can also enter the URL of a specific article or product to query the history of the page.

In short, this website is the most authoritative website in the world for record query, with rich information and huge data.

2. Snapshot

Search engines all provide snapshots of web pages, just like taking a photo of the website for free query.

For example, in the following figure, click "Baidu Snapshot" to see the results.

However, the records of search engine snapshots are far less useful and rich than the Internet archives above.

Speaking of this, Lao Wei recalled that there was a corporate website that had lost its files after it expired without renewal, but at this time it was urgent to rebuild the website.

Old Wei found most of the article pages, product pages, pictures, and text page by page through Baidu snapshots, and 100% restored the enterprise website to solve the urgent problem.

3. Summary

There are other websites in China, such as Juchawang, whose data comes from Internet archives. You can only check if you register an account on Juzi.com, and the data is incomplete.

If you want to query the history of some domain names and website history (relatively long), then use the Internet Archive.

If you can't open it in China, you can use Ju Cha Net.

If you just want to check the recent situation of the target website, you'd better go directly to Baidu Snapshot.