# Publishing your site

> Push your site live with one click — what happens during publish, opening the live site, performance audits, and unpublishing.

Source: https://knowledge.estage.com/workspace/publishing/
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When your site looks right in the preview, the **Publish** button in the top-right corner
takes it live.

## What happens when you publish

1. Click **Publish**. The button shows live progress — preparing, building, uploading.
2. Genesis builds an optimized production version of your site and deploys it.
3. When it's done, a green **Open site** button appears — click it to view your live site in a
   new tab.

You can keep editing while you think — publishing only ships what's there when you click.
A **Cancel** appears during the process if you change your mind.

:::note
The Publish button is disabled while the AI is generating or while a publish is already
running. If your subscription is inactive, publishing pauses until you reactivate.
:::

## Your site's address

Your site publishes to its Genesis address (`yourproject.genesis.estage.com`). To serve it on
your own domain — `mysite.com` — add the domain to your workspace and connect it to the
project: see [Adding a custom domain](/domains/) and
[Connecting a domain to a project](/domains/connect/).

## After you publish

- **Performance audits** — run a Google PageSpeed audit per page with one-click AI fixes. See
  [Performance audits](/workspace/performance/).
- **Republish anytime** — publish again after changes; the new version replaces the old one.
- **Tracking & analytics** — your [Marketing Tags](/project-settings/marketing-tags/), [Code
  Injection](/project-settings/code-injection/), and [Analytics](/project-settings/analytics/)
  are all baked into the published site.

## Unpublishing

To take your site offline from search engines, use **Unpublish** in
[Settings → General](/project-settings/general/#publish-status). It tells search engines to
stop indexing; your project and content remain intact, and you can publish again whenever.

## Publish checklist

Before going live, a quick sanity pass:

- [ ] Click through your nav — every link goes somewhere real.
- [ ] Check Tablet and Mobile viewports.
- [ ] [SEO](/project-settings/seo/): description + social-share image set.
- [ ] Favicon set in [General](/project-settings/general/).
- [ ] Forms and [order forms](/order-forms/) configured (payments only work on the published
  site, not in preview).