Settings, privacy and security

Connect your website address to your site

Point the address you own at your site. You send us the address, we send you the exact records to add, and you add them or give us temporary access.

Point another website address to your site

Send visitors from other addresses you own, like an old business name or the .net version, to your main site.

What the padlock (https) means for your site

The padlock next to your address shows a private connection. How to check it and what to do if a visitor sees a Not Secure warning.

Your website address (domain)

You buy your website address yourself, in your own name. How to keep it renewed, find where you bought it and check it is in your name.

Add a privacy page to your site

Switch on a ready-made privacy page, fill in your details and link to it. Check the final wording with your lawyer.

Handle a customer's privacy request

What your site's settings let you do when a customer asks what you hold on them or asks you to delete it. Check with your lawyer for what your business needs.

Turn off tracking cookies

Stop your site from saving cookies on visitors' browsers. This also stops your visitor stats, so read what changes first.

Turn on a cookie notice

Show every visitor a short notice that your site uses cookies. Preview it, change the wording and check the rules with your lawyer.

Change the small icon in the browser tab

Upload the tiny logo that shows beside your page title in a browser tab, so people can find your site among their open tabs.

Find your site settings

A short map of the Settings area in your site editor: your address, padlock, icons, privacy, backups, languages and more.

Let visitors add your site to their phone's home screen

Switch on the setting that lets visitors save your site on their phone's home screen like an app, and choose its name and icon.

Set the picture that shows when your site is shared

Choose the picture that appears when someone shares a link to your site on Facebook, X, LinkedIn or in a message, for the whole site or one page.

Restore an earlier version of your site

Put your site back to an earlier saved copy if a big change went wrong. Tell us first, and save a copy of the current site before you restore.

Save a backup before a big change

Save a named copy of your site in your editor so you can go back to it if a big change goes wrong.

Add another language to your site

Add a translated copy of your site in another language, with a switch in the header. A fluent reader should check every page before it goes live.

• Add-on: ask us about adding it

Set your site's main language

Change the language of the built-in text on your site, such as buttons, dates and notices. The words you wrote don't change.

Keep your site fast

Simple habits that keep your pages quick to open on a phone: right-sized photos, few heavy boxes near the top and two fonts.

What your site's speed scores mean

Plain words for the scores in Google's speed tools: what they measure, what counts as good and why the numbers move around.