Google Cache Checker

Check when was the last time Google stored a cached version of your website after providing our tool the URL of a site and pressing the "Check Google Cache" button.

Enter upto 5 Domains with (http:// or https://)

Most people who have or manage websites have this misconception that Google monitors every website in real time. Google does not operate like this; it visits all the websites on the internet based on its routine. It takes a snapshot of every website that it visits and stores it on its servers. If you run a Google cache checker command, it tells you the date and time of ‘when did last visit a website’.

There are two ways of running the Google cache checker command. You can open any browser and enter the following command in the navigation bar:

Cache: http://www.mywebsite.com

Google will return a message informing you of the date and time in GMT of its last inspection of the website which is stored in its cache. In case you cannot remember the command, there's an easier way of finding out when did Google last visit a site. You can use searchenginereports.net Google cache checker tool. This tool performs the same function and presents the results in a user-friendly and easily readable form. As this tool allows you to check up to five domains, it shows the results in a report form.

The report has five columns which contain:

  1. Serial No: if you have entered more than one URL, its serial number is displayed. If you have entered one URL, then the serial number will be 1.
  2. URLs: the name of the URL for which the report is sought is displayed
  3. Cache URL: this display a hyperlink 'View URL.' Should you click on it, it will display the full version of the website's cache as stored by Google. You can also view the text only or source version.
  4. Last Modified: this column displays the date and time of when did Google make a copy of the URL and store it in its cache.
  5. Status: The status of the website when Google checked it is shown. If the site was up and running its status will be OK.

If you run this utility on your website frequently, you will get to know how often Google drops by to check your website.

ou not only want to keep track of how your website is performing on Google. But you also want to check your competitors' websites. Now you can enter five of your main competitors URLs in searchenginereports.net Google cache checker tool, and their cache information will be displayed. From this, you can see the last visits to their sites. If you perform this check after every three or four days, you will know if Google is paying more visits to any of your competitor's sites.

There are some SEO tools providers on the internet that allow a user to run Google cache checker tool in bulk. What this implies is that you can execute the checker tool on more than one website at a time.

The bulk Google cache checker tool allows you to enter and check up to twenty URLs simultaneously.

This tool is handy if your website faces a lot of competition and you want to check the twenty sites that are competing against you. After running the bulk test, the results returned by some of the tools just list the URLs and the date and time when Google made a cache of the site.

If you run the test on a daily basis, you will see how often Google is visiting you and your competitors' sites. It would be helpful when you want to perform any SEO operations to improve your website's performance.

Google checks the traffic of each website and the more traffic on a website, the more often will Google check it. It happens on sites that have an extremely high volume of traffic. For example websites like CNN, Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times, Reuter, BBC and other news sites which are being constantly updated are visited more often by Google. A website which might be containing extremely useful content, but has few updates and traffic will be visited less frequently by Google.

Also, Google visits and caches sites usually that follows the ART acronym, which is:

  • Authority
  • Relevance
  • Traffic

A website that is following these three rules is competing against other similar sites for ranking in their sector. Since Google does the ranking, it's logical that Google will visit and cache these sites more regularly.

Google cache browser should not be confused with cache testing and cookie testing. Google routinely visits websites and takes a 'snapshot' of the site and stores it in it cache. On the other hand SEOs use cache testing and cookie testing to test and check the cache stored on the site's host machine and the cookies on it. Internet service providers store caches of URLs more frequently surfed by the user.

A cookie is a small bit of information which a visited server stores on a client's machine. Whenever the client wants to visit that site the cookie sends the request to the server. This saves time as the browser does not have to conduct a fresh search for the site. Emails and other often visited sites especially social media sites store cookies on the client machines.

Yes, as an SEO or website master the Google cache checker tool is useful. With this you can see the frequency of Google visits to your and if you want your main competitors sites. You can view the full displayed version, the text only version as well as the source version. An SEO can use this information to see if a competitor is using any news SEO technique. The SEO can also attempt to find the reason for a competitor's site's better ranking.

Among other tools used by SEOs to improve and retain their websites ranking searchenginereports.net Google cache checker tool is handy.

Other Languages: English, русский, 日本語, italiano, français, Português, Español, Deutsche, 中文