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title: Site preview
status: current
order: 17
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# Site preview

Each site in **Sites** shows a picture of its live home page, so you recognize it at a glance.

- It needs the site's live URL (**Settings → General**). Until the first picture is ready, the card says "Preview on its way".
- **It works wherever the site is hosted** (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare, your own server): Pluma doesn't wait for a message from the host. After content changes (publishing, unpublishing, deleting), it looks at the live home page every few minutes for up to 20 minutes, and takes a new picture as soon as the page changes, which means the new build is live.
- It also looks once a day, in case the site changed outside Pluma.
- The picture is the first screen of the home page on a laptop (1280 × 800). Pluma takes it from the public internet, like a visitor: nothing is installed on your site.