Trust · Legitimacy
Your copyright year is out of date
An old year makes people wonder if you're still trading, and some may go elsewhere.
- Applies to
- every page
- Typical severity
- low
- Effect on conversions
- medium
- Effort to fix
- Quick to fix
What to look for
A copyright year more than a year old in the footer.
AgoraScan measures this automatically on every page it audits, on desktop and mobile.
Based on
- Web credibility research
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