diff --git a/backend/pom.xml b/backend/pom.xml
index a17640a3e..24b8b525e 100644
--- a/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/backend/pom.xml
@@ -167,6 +167,12 @@
             <version>4.4</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
+            <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
+            <version>2.13.0</version>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Logging -->
 <!--        <dependency>-->
diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/controller/api/v2/V2StatisticsController.java b/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/controller/api/v2/V2StatisticsController.java
index 7f767b89f..9217eaea0 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/controller/api/v2/V2StatisticsController.java
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/controller/api/v2/V2StatisticsController.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public class V2StatisticsController {
     @Operation(description = "Get Whole System Statistics. Components in all ontologies are taken into consideration")
     @RequestMapping(path = "/stats", produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaTypes.HAL_JSON_VALUE}, method = RequestMethod.GET)
     public HttpEntity<V2Statistics> getStatistics() throws ResourceNotFoundException, IOException {
-        return new ResponseEntity<>( computeStats("*:*"), HttpStatus.OK);
+        return new ResponseEntity<>( computeStats("*:*", null), HttpStatus.OK);
     }
 
     @Operation(description = "Get Schema and Classification based Statistics. Possible schema keys and possible classification values of particular keys can be inquired with /api/ontologies/schemakeys and /api/ontologies/schemavalues methods respectively.")
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ public HttpEntity<V2Statistics> getStatistics(
             @RequestParam(value = "lang", defaultValue = "en") String lang) throws ResourceNotFoundException, IOException{
 
         ontologyIds = ontologyRepository.filterOntologyIDs(schemas,classifications,ontologyIds,exclusive,filterOption,lang);
+        String lastLoaded = ontologyRepository.getLastLoaded(ontologyIds,lang).toString();
         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
         String queryString = "none";
         if(ontologyIds != null){
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ public HttpEntity<V2Statistics> getStatistics(
             }
             queryString = sb.toString().substring(0,sb.toString().lastIndexOf(" OR "));
         }
-        return new ResponseEntity<>( computeStats(queryString), HttpStatus.OK);
+        return new ResponseEntity<>( computeStats(queryString, lastLoaded), HttpStatus.OK);
     }
     @Operation(description = "Get Composite Schema based Statistics. All schemas with their respective classifications under the classifications variable will be computed.")
     @RequestMapping(path = "/allstatsbyschema", produces = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, MediaTypes.HAL_JSON_VALUE}, method = RequestMethod.GET)
@@ -82,11 +83,11 @@ HttpEntity<MultiKeyMap> getStatisticsBySchema(
         return new ResponseEntity<>( summaries, HttpStatus.OK);
     }
 
-    private V2Statistics computeStats(String queryString) throws IOException {
+    private V2Statistics computeStats(String queryString, String lastLoaded) throws IOException {
 
         Map<String,Object> coreStatus = solrClient.getCoreStatus();
         Map<String,Object> indexStatus = (Map<String,Object>) coreStatus.get("index");
-        String lastModified = (String) indexStatus.get("lastModified");
+        String lastModified = lastLoaded == null ? (String) indexStatus.get("lastModified") : lastLoaded;
 
         SolrQuery query = new SolrQuery();
         query.setQuery(queryString);
diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/repository/v2/V2OntologyRepository.java b/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/repository/v2/V2OntologyRepository.java
index ff7e478b9..ffa237f25 100644
--- a/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/repository/v2/V2OntologyRepository.java
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/spot/ols/repository/v2/V2OntologyRepository.java
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 import uk.ac.ebi.spot.ols.repository.transforms.RemoveLiteralDatatypesTransform;
 import uk.ac.ebi.spot.ols.repository.v2.helpers.V2DynamicFilterParser;
 import uk.ac.ebi.spot.ols.repository.v2.helpers.V2SearchFieldsParser;
+
+import java.time.LocalDateTime;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
@@ -103,6 +106,19 @@ public Set<V2Entity> getOntologies(String lang){
         return entities;
     }
 
+    public LocalDateTime getLastLoaded(Collection<String> ontologies,String lang){
+        LocalDateTime lastLoaded = LocalDateTime.MIN;
+        DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSSSSS");
+        for (V2Entity entity : getOntologies(lang)){
+            if (ontologies.contains(entity.any().get("ontologyId").toString())){
+                LocalDateTime dateTime = LocalDateTime.parse(entity.any().get("loaded").toString(), formatter);
+                if (dateTime.isAfter(lastLoaded))
+                    lastLoaded = dateTime;
+            }
+        }
+        return lastLoaded;
+    }
+
     public Collection<String> filterOntologyIDs(Collection<String> schemas, Collection<String> classifications, Collection<String> ontologies, boolean exclusiveFilter, FilterOption filterOption, String lang){
         if (schemas != null)
             schemas.remove("");