Is the SEO work you pay for actually showing up on your site?
Enter any website. We read its sitemap and show you the date each page reports it was last changed — newest first, month by month, with the longest stretch of nothing. Google reads those dates; an AI answer engine cannot cite what was never added. No signup, no email, no card.
If you pay an SEO agency every month, this is the work log you were never sent. It is the site’s own record, so we also check for the one case where that record is meaningless. How we do this
What a work log can tell you
A sitemap lists the pages a site wants search engines to know about, and for each one it can carry a lastmod date — the last time that page changed. Read across a whole site and sorted by date, that becomes a record: which months had pages changing, which had none, and what changed most recently. Steady monthly changes look like a site being worked on. A burst tied to a real event — a new location, a redesign — is normal. A long run of empty months on a site someone is paid to improve is the pattern worth asking about.
What it cannot tell you
- Whether the dates are true. They are self-reported by the site’s own software. We flag the case where every page carries the same date, because that is a stamp rather than a record; beyond that, we show what the site says.
- Work that happens off the site. Google Business Profile posts, reviews, backlinks, reporting and calls do not appear in a sitemap.
- Edits that did not update the date. Some systems only re-date a page for certain kinds of change.
- Whether the changes were any good. A date is a date. The list of recently changed pages tells you where to look; it does not grade what it finds.
So read it as a starting point. If the log shows three empty months and your invoice shows three payments, that is a fair question to put to whoever sends the invoice — and the answer might be perfectly good. If you want a fuller picture of what has actually been done to your site, we are building one; for now, ask us.
Frequently asked questions
How do I see when my website was last updated?
Enter your address above. We read your site’s own sitemap — the file it publishes for search engines — and lay out the lastmod date each page reports, newest first, with a month-by-month count. It is the site’s own record of when each page last changed, shown in a form you can read in ten seconds.
Is this tool really free?
Yes. No signup, no email, no card, and the whole result is on screen. We sell paid reports that answer different questions — whether AI engines name your business for real buyer searches, and what SEO work is actually showing on your site — and this tool exists partly so you can see we measure things honestly before you consider buying anything.
What is lastmod, and can I trust it?
lastmod is a field in your sitemap that says when a page was last changed. It is self-reported: it is what the site says, not something we verified. Most content systems fill it in correctly, and Google has said it uses lastmod when a site keeps it consistently accurate. But it is only as honest as the software that wrote it, which is why we check for the one case where it says nothing at all.
Why does every page show the same date?
Some systems stamp every page with the current date each time the sitemap is generated, so the whole site appears to have changed today, every day. That is a stamp, not a work log, and we say so instead of reporting that your site was updated today. If you see this, the honest answer is that your sitemap cannot tell you when anything changed, and you would need to ask whoever runs the site.
My site has no sitemap. Is that bad?
Not fatal. Search engines can still find and index a site without one. It does mean there is no work log to read here, and it usually means nobody has set one up — a sitemap is a standard, cheap piece of technical SEO. We show you the addresses we tried so you can check whether one exists somewhere unusual.
Does this prove whether my SEO company has done the work?
No, and it is important to be clear about that. This shows what your site reports about its own pages. It cannot see work done elsewhere — Google Business Profile posts, backlinks, reporting, strategy calls — and it cannot see edits to a page that did not update its date. What it can show is a plain fact: how many pages report a change in each month, and how long the empty stretches are. That is a good starting point for a conversation, not a verdict.
What does a healthy work log look like?
Steady. A site that is being worked on shows pages changing most months — new service pages, updated articles, a fixed page here and there. A burst tied to a real event, like a new location or a redesign, is normal. What is worth asking about is a long run of empty months on a site someone is being paid to improve, and the clearest version of that is three or more in a row.
Last reviewed 2026-09-14.