Opening hours check: do the times agree everywhere?
The opening hours check reads your website and reports time-related notices that have expired: holiday schedules, closures, special hours, and announcements of changed times. It also flags contradictions between different pages. The check needs only your website address to run.
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Enter your address — DustOff reports time and holiday notices that are past their date.
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Why hours go stale so easily
Opening hours rarely live in one place: homepage, contact page, footer. When something changes, usually only the page that comes to mind first gets updated.
Even more often, time-limited notices simply stay up — the holiday notice still showing in February, the closure notice still there in autumn.
- Holiday and closure notices with an expired date range.
- Special hours that only applied for a limited period.
- Announcements of changed hours starting from a date that's already passed.
What to do after a hit
Once one spot gets flagged, it's worth checking every place at once: website, maps listing, directory entries, email signature, and phone message. Otherwise you end up correcting the same one page again next time.
Why this matters more than it seems
Wrong hours cost a visit outright: someone drives over and finds the door locked, or calls during what the website claims are open hours. Unlike most stale content, this kind produces an angry visitor on the same day.
How you'd do it by hand
Write down every place hours appear — website, maps listing, directory, autoreply, phone message, door sign — and work through that list on every change. The website is usually the easy part; the rest is what gets forgotten.
Häufige Fragen
- Does it catch contradictions between two pages?
- Noticeable differences between pages get flagged when they're visible in the text. Listings outside your own website, like map services, can't be checked.
- Are holiday notices recognised too?
- Yes. This exact type of notice is the one most often left standing, so it gets particular attention.
- Does the check cost anything?
- For one website, it's free forever, including the regular reminder email.
- What about seasonal hours, like a summer schedule?
- Those are read too, and flagged once the season they belong to has clearly ended.
- Can it check my Google Business listing?
- No, only your own website. Directory and maps listings stay your responsibility to update separately.