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My site is blank, missing or out of date

2 min read Updated Jul 31, 2026

"My site is not showing" is several different problems. This is the order to check them in.

Nothing loads at all

A blank page, a white screen, or an error instead of your site.

  1. Is the site status Live? Settings > Access & Visibility. Draft, Maintenance and Archived all hide a perfectly good site - see Site status & visibility.
  2. Is it password protected? Same page. You will not see the prompt yourself if you are logged in.
  3. Are you using the right address? Try your free address. If that works and your custom domain does not, the problem is DNS - see Custom domain not verifying.
  4. Have you published? A project with no published page has nothing to serve - see Publish your site.

The site loads but my changes are missing

  1. Did you publish the page? Saving is not publishing, and publishing is per page.
  2. Hard refresh. Ctrl-F5, or Cmd-Shift-R on a Mac. Browsers cache aggressively, and this is comfortably the most common answer.
  3. Try a private window. It rules out your own cache and any extensions.
  4. Check you edited the page you are looking at, and not a duplicate of it.

One page is missing

  1. Is that page published? Pages publish individually.
  2. Is it in the menu? Published and linked are separate things - see Pages & menus.
  3. Does it require a password? Check its page settings.
  4. Is the address right? Changing a page's slug breaks every existing link to it.

It works for me but not for someone else

  • Ask them to hard refresh, then try a different browser or their phone data rather than wi-fi.
  • Check geo access. Country restrictions in Access & Visibility block by location, and you will never notice from home - see Site status & visibility.
  • DNS reaches people at different times. After a domain change, a colleague may see the old site for a day.

Google cannot find me

That is a different problem, and a slower one. A new site takes days to weeks to appear, and publishing is the start of that clock, not the end. See Site health score.

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