HOW FREQUENTLY IS THE SITE UPDATED?
Many site managers feel it is more important to tell the user how many visitors have visited the site than it is to inform the user of when the site is/was updated. It is often more a “vanity” to show how many users have visited the site than it is truly informative about the quality or content of the site. Likewise, just a date of when the site was last updated may be useful (especially in the case of current data), but data should always be identified with a date of collection/interpretation/publication. A far more important question for the user is: is the site one that needs regular updating? If it is, how regularly is the site made current? Some sites, such as repository sites for information or publications- those sites that are on the web for the sole purpose of having documents or databases maintained for historical or ongoing access reasons- do not have a need for regular “updating.” These sites serve as on-line libraries of existing information or resources. Likewise, many da
