How Your Website Updates

You publish a change, open your live site to admire it, and… it still looks the old way. Wait a moment, refresh, and there it is. That short pause catches a lot of people off guard, so it’s worth explaining what’s happening — because the same thing that causes the wait is what makes your site so quick for your customers.

Your Site Is Built Ahead of Time

Most websites are assembled fresh for every single visitor: someone opens the page, and a server scrambles to put it together right then. That’s flexible, but it’s slow, and it gets slower the more people show up at once.

Lekro works the other way around. Your site is built ahead of time into ready-made pages and stored on a fast network of servers spread around the world. When a customer visits, there’s nothing to assemble — the finished page is already sitting there, close to them, ready to send. That’s why your menu snaps open in an instant whether the person is across town or across an ocean, and why a sudden rush of visitors doesn’t slow anything down.

Which Is Why Changes Take a Moment

The trade-off is the part you notice. Because your site is a finished, stored copy rather than something rebuilt on every view, your edits don’t appear the very second you publish them. The system has to take your changes, build a fresh copy of the affected pages, and send that new copy out across the network to replace the old one.

That whole process runs automatically in the background, and it usually settles within about a minute. So when you publish and the live site still looks unchanged, nothing’s wrong — the new version is on its way. Give it a minute, refresh the page, and your update will be there.

What This Means for You

A few habits make the wait a non-issue:

• Publish, then wait a beat before checking. If you refresh the instant you hit publish, you’ll often catch the old version mid-swap. A minute’s patience saves a lot of “did it work?”
• Do your editing in the Design Studio’s preview, not on the live site. The preview shows your draft immediately, with no wait at all — it’s the right place to judge how a change looks. The live site is only for confirming the final result.
• A hard refresh helps if it lingers. Your own browser keeps its own short-term copy of pages too. If a change seems slow to show after a minute or two, a hard refresh (hold Shift while you reload) fetches the newest version.

None of this needs managing on your part — there are no caches to clear and no buttons to press. Publish your change, let it travel, and your fast little site updates itself.