meta name="generator" content="7.3.5.244" meaning?

Question

meta name="generator" content="7.3.5.244" appears in the head of an adobe muse based static site. What does the "7.3.5.244" mean/do?

Answer 1

In this case, is a version number. Specifically, it is the version of Muse used to generate the site. Version 7.3 is the current version.

More generally, the HTML specification allows the content attribute of a <meta> tag to contain anything describing the generator. A version number is common, but the name of the product is often included for clarity. For example:

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.5.1" />

Answer 2

The value must be a free-form string that identifies one of the software packages used to generate the document.

HTML5 spec