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Setting up lastmod dates for a veterinary clinic
15 Mar 2026
How a veterinary clinic deals with lastmod dates — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a 404 that still returns 200. This breaks lastmod dates for a veterinary clinic.
Automate lastmod dates if you can. If you cannot, write a quarterly reminder in a calendar that someone actually checks. a 404 that still returns 200 is what happens when nobody does either.
For a veterinary clinic, the boring path won: HTTPS, a backup that we have restored once on purpose, and a calendar reminder for lastmod dates.
A free certificate and a correct lastmod dates record will do more for a veterinary clinic than a redesign that ships with a 404 that still returns 200 still in place.
The most expensive outage for a veterinary clinic was not a hack — it was a 404 that still returns 200. Nobody attacked anything. The config just drifted.
Launch day for a veterinary clinic is usually light. Week three is when leftover tags, fonts, and staging URLs show up. a 404 that still returns 200 is the usual passenger.
We quoted a veterinary clinic half what the other firm did because we did not propose features they did not ask for. The scope was lastmod dates, not a rebrand.
Fixing lastmod dates cost less than the lunch meeting where a veterinary clinic decided to wait another quarter. Waiting is never free.
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