In this article, I will show you how can I find out the date of registration of the VKontakte page. This information may come in handy. Or is there a need to know. In any case, the method is quite simple.

It is enough to remember or find out the date of registration of the page, and carry out elementary mathematical calculations. But let's go directly to the method.

We need the id of our page. How to find out, I have already explained in detail. Here is the instruction -. I remind you that id is a unique number of our page.

Now we need to use a special link. Here she is:

https://vk.com/foaf.php?id=

Copy it, paste it into the address bar of your browser. After the "=" sign, you need to add the id of the page whose registration date we need to know.

You should get the following.

When you go to this page, you need to open the html code to view. To do this, in the free view area, right-click. In the menu that opens, select the item "Page source code".

We will open a page with technical information. We are interested in the line "ya:created" here. It contains the date the page was created.

If you look, the picture shows how many years I have been registered on VKontakte.

We look at the first post on the wall

Another way that will allow you to determine the date of registration of the VKontakte page is to view the wall (see). People, as a rule, immediately begin to publish materials to their wall. And you need to see the very first of them. The date of its creation will most likely coincide with the date of registration. Or close match.

How to find out how old I am in VK? Just scroll through the posts on my wall, to the very first one. As you can see, she was left on November 19, 2007. It was on this day that I created the page. You can count - I've been on VKontakte for 10 years.

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Using the most popular social network Vkontakte, you could think about how much time exists from the moment of registration, both your page and someone else's. There is no place to emphasize this information in the VK profile interface, the developers did not provide for this possibility. However, this does not mean at all that this information cannot be found out.

In fact, information about the duration of the existence of the page (profile) of any Vkontakte user is not a secret and is easily found out. One of the methods will be discussed later.

Find out how long our or the VK profile we are interested in exists

In order to find out this information, you do not need to download or install anything. A corresponding and very convenient tool is available in VK itself - this is the "I'm online" application. It can be found and launched through the "Games" menu, which is located in the side menu of the Vkontakte profile. You can also quickly access it by

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Hello, novice developers and readers of my Start-Luck blog. Today we will talk with you about competitor analysis. The main measure of the “coolness” of sites is their age. In principle, I fully and completely agree with this opinion.

Even if you do not take into account the Internet. It's great when a person has worked in a position for a dozen years. Surely during this time he learned a lot and will give you more valuable recommendations.

My blog is a little over a year old, and today you will understand how to find out when a competitor's website was created. I have already talked a little about this topic in the article. This publication will tell you how to look at the design of popular resources over the past 10 or 20 years.

Today, we are only interested in age: what is considered age, what this information is useful for, and several accurate and not very methods to find out how many years a project has been on the Internet.

Let's start.

What is the "age" of the site

If we take the search engines, which in the first place should worry the developer, then they understand the age when the URL was registered. For example, under VK.com for a long time there was not a social network Vkontakte, but some regular search engine.

If the domain is bought out, then it will be quite difficult to find out the real age of a particular project, and there can be no question of the reliability of the data. However, fortunately, if you are pursuing the goal of analyzing a resource for marketing purposes, to develop your own strategy, or, then you need the domain age.

Purpose of analysis

There are three goals that come to mind that you can pursue when analyzing information about the age of the portal.

• You want to think over your own promotion strategy in detail, based on someone else's statistics.
• You are reading an article and need to know how up-to-date the information is based on the age of the page.
• Perhaps you want to buy an existing website or domain, for example, on Telderi . And despite the fact that all the information is displayed there, you want to make sure of its quality.

The last reason is my favorite: "You're just bored, so why not." If you have other options, I will be happy to read the comments, leave them, I will be very grateful.

The influence of age

Just as a person with extensive work experience is valued more, so an adult site is more likely to be placed in the first places of search results. - that's what age does. You may already know that young sites that have not reached six months are in the "sandbox" and it is almost impossible to earn first place.

There are also old publications that are thrown out of the first places, since the information was written a very long time ago. Of course, search engines do not yet know how to read texts, and if you write fresh material on how to make anesthesia with a hammer, then there is every chance of getting into the TOP, displacing publications about modern drugs.

Although, they say that it will soon gain momentum and the articles will also be checked for the accuracy of the facts.

Examination

The easiest way to find out the age is to look at the publication date, if available. This method cannot be called reliable, since many developers deliberately update their old entries so as not to fly out of the TOP. For others, this information is closed. In any case, within the framework of this article, I had to write about this method, although I do not consider it good.

The second way is almost perfect and these are online services. What exactly?

• pr-cy.ru
• reg.ru
• whois.net/
• sitespy.ru
• 2ip.ru

Let's check how these services work on the example of my site.

Pr-cy

So, to start, I go to pr-cy. Pay attention to here you can make a lot of different analyzes and find out a lot of interesting information not only about the age of the site. For fun, let's move on to the analysis of the site. I enter my URL.

It displays a list of tasks for resolving errors, portal statistics, its attendance, a list of links leading to the project, and a lot of useful information. Pretty much anything but age.

In order to learn more about the terms of domain registration, I return to the tools and proceed to the WhoIs check. This is a mandatory protocol for all sites, which allows you to determine the complete information about the owners of IP and domains. Mandatory attribute of every Internet project.

I enter my URL.

And unfortunately I don't get anything. I am offered to go to the Reg.Ru portal. Well, pr-cy is still not bad, besides, maybe this is some kind of temporary error that is about to be corrected.

An interesting point, it is not necessary to switch to Reg.ru. Can you change the link a bit? https://www.cypr.com, enter the domain name here, and get all the necessary information.

Reg.Ru

I'll tell you right away Reg.Ru I was more than pleased. Go to the site, insert the domain you want to check and again click on WhoIs.

Here you can find the date of registration and its end. It is worth noting that if you liked some domain and you are waiting for it to be repurchased, then I will immediately say that the idea is so-so. The previous owner of the domain will always have priority rights to it.

There is a known case when a certain programmer was the owner of a Google domain for several minutes. He bought it, it seems, for $10, laughed that the corporation forgot to pay for the next period, wrote a letter to Google and returned the URL back. I could be wrong, but it looks like he was paid a few hundred or a thousand dollars for this, as a thank you.

This is where the story ended.

By the way, by DNS servers, you can understand where the site is located,.

Reg.ru unique verification system. Pay attention to the link at the bottom of the "Domain History" window.

For an additional fee, which depends on the type of verification, you can find out the history of changes in hosting and domain owners, that is, the real age of the site without taking into account the time when the site was owned by other people.

WhoIs.net

Another service that helps determine the age of a domain WhoIs.net. It is in English, but it will not be so difficult to understand. Paste the link and click on the magnifying glass.

Done, here you have information about creating a domain, and about the location of the DNS servers, that is, which hosting the domain name is assigned to.

Site Spy

One of the easiest services to check is − Site Spy. He himself will calculate how old the site is up to the day of foundation and will give you basic information.

Go to the tab "Find out the age of the site" and get a specific result.

You can also get information about servers.

2-ip

Well, the last resource 2ip.ru, just like the first one, provides ample opportunities for analysis. Thanks to it, you can find out your IP, on which platform the site was created, and even its attendance.

Here is all the information.

For the sake of interest, let's check on which CMS my blog is located. Frankly speaking, it is a rare case when the service really correctly determines Start-Luck. And yet, this time, he did not disappoint. Found signs of using the WordPress engine. Cheers cheers.

On this, I consider my short review completed. Don't forget that you have the option to subscribe to our mailing list to get a weekly summary of published content so you don't miss out on anything of value.

See you again and good luck.

"How to find out the traffic of someone else's site?" - this question arises for many novice webmasters. After all, it is often very interesting to see how many visitors visit a particular resource (most often it is a competitor or a site of the subject you are thinking of creating a site for). But how can this be done? Let's look at all the relevant ways to observe the statistics of someone else's site.

Let's start in descending order of methods from the most effective to the most exotic and ineffective.

1. View counter

View the site counter (if any). A very banal method, but far from the most reliable. Site owners themselves are interested in knowing the statistics of their site, so they place counters of known top ratings:

• live internet
• Top100 Rambler
• Topmail
• Yandex Metrica

Why exactly these counters should be looked for? Because no one wants to bother with creating homemade counters and scripts. Thanks to these counters, we can determine the traffic of someone else's site, and under certain favorable conditions, which you will learn about later, we will even find out all the details about where the transitions came from, what keywords were used, and so on.

Perfect option
Very often, statistics are displayed directly on the counter. For example, in LiveInternet it looks like this:

or in Top Mail:

However, things are not always so simple (somewhere in half of the cases webmasters for some reason prefer to hide counter data). Often the counter button may be present, but there are no numbers on it:

In this case, try clicking this button. You should get to the statistics page, from where it will immediately become clear whether it is closed with a password or not:

If it is written that the statistics are publicly available, then the issue is resolved, if under a password, then there is another way to peep the statistics. In this case, you can try to find out the traffic through a special request: (instead of the site, write the domain of the site of interest). This request will provide the following information:

But this method does not always work either, since the webmaster may have prohibited the display of statistics:

In this case, we will not receive any information. In half the cases, the first method will be enough for us, since almost every site has counters. If nothing could be found out through the counters, then the first method did not give anything, then go to step 2.

2. Try to find the site in the traffic ranking

Each major counter has its own rating. Try to drive in the rating of the site that you are interested in. If found, then this is not bad, because now, after waiting for the end of the day (as close as possible to 23:59), you can find out how many unique visitors there were per day. It is better to wait for the end of the day because the statistics in the rating are displayed for the time starting from 00:00.

However, this method may not work either, since the site owner might not want to participate in the rating:

3. View Alexa

For those who hear the word Alexa for the first time, I advise you to first read: what is Alexa. Thanks to the most famous and largest Alexa Rank counter, you can approximately find out the site traffic and even some of the queries by which users enter the site. For example, the top3 Alexa looks like this:

Let me remind you that the lower the value of Alexa, the greater the site traffic. The top 3 shows that the most visited website in the world is Google.com.

By the way, not all sites are in Alexa's rating, but not because they were not added there, but because they have too little traffic. If at least someone visits the site (from 50 people a day), then this site should be in Alex. To find out the rating of a site, you need to enter its URL in the search:

For example, this site has a traffic rating of 168464 in the world and 10831 among Russian sites.

Alexa is focused on the Western world. The data of this counter will have a large error in the Russian segment, since few people have the Alexa toolbar (unlike the Western audience) through which Alexa recognizes attendance.

4. RDS Bar plugin

By installing the RDS Bar plugin in your browser, you can quickly find out what counters are on the site and perhaps through them you can already understand something about the popularity of the resource. This is a controversial method, because. on the one hand, everything is fast and automated, and on the other hand, it's just a plug-in and in some cases you have to apply your knowledge, and not just rely on the RDS Bar machine.

If all the data is hidden, then the bar will not help you.

5. Apply the trick

Write a letter to the owner of the resource with a question about placing a banner or other advertisement on the site. Also indicate that before you buy advertising you need information about site traffic. There is a chance that an unsuspecting webmaster will even give up access to statistics or provide screenshots. However, the chances of this happening are less than half, because not all sites are willing to advertise at all. For example, such sites practically do not exist in commercial topics.

6. Indirect methods

It's more of a desperation step: to find out site traffic using guesses and assumptions. If there are comment forms, then you can see how many people comment on posts. If there is a place to put likes, tweets, etc. - then you should pay attention to their number. But all this will be very, very far from the truth, because. there is such a thing in site traffic as the "core of the site", that is, the most active participants and fans. For example, 50 people from such a core can be much more active than 5,000 just pioneers. I know this from my own websites.

Also, do not forget that all social factors can be tweaked a little, comments can be bought, and then you can make a very big mistake in determining attendance.

If none of the above helped, then I'm afraid that attendance is simply impossible to find out, because. the webmaster hid all possible loopholes. We can only hope for Alexa, which has a large error.

You can easily find out the age of the site, the age of the domain. There are a number of services for this, which we will talk about now. Consider Whois services and an interesting site for obtaining domain age data.

1. Prlog.ru - comprehensive information about the site and domain.

Go to the site prlog.ru, in the "Site analysis" field, enter the domain you are interested in and click on the "Analysis" button.

Well, now everything is clear - the site is 1 year old. The data is not very accurate, do you want to get information up to the date of registration of the domain? Read below then.

2. Whois service - all information about the domain.

There are quite a few such services, here are examples:

• whois-service.com
• nic.ru/whois/
• whois.net
• reg.ru/whois/

And all of them allow you to get information about the age of the site domain.

Go to one of the sites listed above, enter the name of the domain you are interested in and press enter. You will get information like this:

Domain Name:Website Domain ID: D167248978-LROR Creation Date: 2012-12-01T19:48:09Z Updated Date: 2013-12-13T00:20:18Z Registry Expiry Date: 2014-12-01T19:48:09Z Sponsoring Registrar: Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC (R1943-LROR) Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1606

Now everything is clear, the domain was registered on December 1, 2012 and paid for before December 1, 2014. The domain name registrar is Reg.ru or their partner company (in my case it is 2domains.ru).

In such a simple way, you can always find out the age of the site. Although it’s more accurate to say the domain, because the site could be on a different domain sometimes, and sometimes the domain gathers dust without work for a couple of years, and then only the site starts working on it. Things are somewhat different - the age of the site and the age of the domain, remember this.

This is useful to know:

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