Page Change Detection

Goals

  • Make it easy for the browser to determine when content has changed on the page

Approach

  • Provide some cached, refreshing, queryable mechanic to determine;

    • Webflow page republished

      • Impacted by CMS API issued changes

    • Other external things

# Technology

Datasources

  • Current page

  • Other specific pages on the same site

Changed-since mechanic, provide ID / hash / timestamp, get a yes/no result

Page Change Detection

Query every N sec from a single source, headers only

Look for changes in marker fields

https://discourse.webflow.com/t/div-auto-refresh-without-site-reloading-each-2-minutes/267573/2?u=memetican

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