Wayback Machine Checker

Wayback Machine Checker: See the Archive History of Any Website

Enter a domain or a page URL to see how the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive has saved it over the years: when the page was archived for the first and the last time, how many captures exist, how often it was saved each month, which HTTP status the captures returned, and the latest snapshots with direct links.

How to check a website in the Wayback Machine

1. Type a domain (example.com) or a full page address (https://example.com/blog/post) and click Check.
2. Look at the first and last capture and the total number of captures.
3. Use the month table to find when the page changed: click any month to open the snapshot closest to it.
4. Open the latest snapshot, browse the full calendar in the Wayback Machine, or ask the archive to save the page now.

Google cache is gone: what to use instead

For years SEO specialists used the Google cache (the Cached link and the cache: operator) to see a recent copy of a page and to check when Googlebot last visited it. Google removed the cache links from search results in early 2024 and later switched the cache: operator off, so Google cache checkers no longer work: they report every page as “not cached”. Google itself now points users to the Internet Archive in the About this result panel.

The Wayback Machine is the most useful replacement for viewing older copies of pages. It does not tell you whether a page is in Google’s index; for your own sites use the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console for that.

What you can do with the archive history

• Check a domain before buying it. Expired and auctioned domains may have a past: spam, adult or gambling content, a doorway network or a long period of errors. The month table and the status colors show at a glance whether the site was alive, redirected or broken.
• See an old version of a website. Compare designs, prices, texts and menus over time, or find content that was deleted.
• Recover lost content. Restore texts and images of your own site after a failed migration, a hosting problem or an accidental deletion.
• SEO research. Find out when a competitor launched a page, changed titles or moved to a new URL structure, and when redirects (3xx) or errors (4xx, 5xx) appeared.
• Evidence and research. Journalists, lawyers and researchers use archived copies to show what a page said on a given date.

What the colors mean

Each cell of the month table shows the number of captures in that month. The color shows the main HTTP status the archive received: green for 2xx (the page worked), blue for 3xx (a redirect), yellow for 4xx (not found, forbidden) and red for 5xx (server errors). A darker cell means more captures. To check how a page answers today, including the whole redirect chain, use the HTTP status code checker.

Why is my page not in the Wayback Machine?

• The page is new or rarely linked, so the archive crawler has not found it yet.
• The site owner asked the Internet Archive to exclude the site, or the site blocks the archive crawler.
• The address differs: try the domain without the path, with or without www, or with http://.
• The page requires a login or is generated entirely by JavaScript.

You can add a public page yourself with Save Page Now: the button opens the Wayback Machine form for the checked address.

About the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library founded in 1996. Its Wayback Machine, public since 2001, holds hundreds of billions of archived web pages. This tool reads the public data of the Wayback Machine; snapshots open on web.archive.org.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Wayback Machine checker free?

Yes. To protect the service from automated abuse, a few checks are available right away and a short captcha appears after that.

Is the data live?

Results come straight from the Internet Archive and are kept for up to six hours, so a page saved a minute ago may appear a little later. The monthly statistics of the archive itself may also lag slightly behind the newest captures.

Does the tool visit my website?

No. Only the Internet Archive is asked; the checked site receives no request from us, and the checked addresses are not stored.

Can I see the Google cache of a page?

No, Google no longer provides cached copies to anyone. The archived snapshots shown here are the closest alternative.