Sites
Salesforce Sites (Force.com Sites) is a feature that allows you to create public-facing web pages hosted on the Salesforce platform, accessible without login, that can display Salesforce data throu…
Definition
Salesforce Sites (Force.com Sites) is a feature that allows you to create public-facing web pages hosted on the Salesforce platform, accessible without login, that can display Salesforce data through Visualforce pages.
In plain English
“Salesforce Sites (Force.com Sites) lets you create public-facing web pages hosted on the Salesforce platform that are accessible without login. These pages can display Salesforce data through Visualforce pages or Lightning components, useful for public forms, landing pages, and information portals.”
Worked example
Auklet Travel runs a public-facing booking-confirmation lookup at confirm.auklettravel.com - type your booking code and you see your itinerary without logging into anything. The page is a Salesforce Site (Force.com Site) hosted on the company's Salesforce platform: a Visualforce page queries the Booking record matching the code, renders the itinerary, and serves it from a `*.force.com` domain mapped to the company's custom URL. No login, no portal user, no Experience Cloud license required for the public visitor. The Site is what lets Auklet expose a sliver of Salesforce data publicly without standing up a separate web app, while everything not exposed via the Site stays hidden behind the org's normal security model.
Why Sites matters
Salesforce Sites (Force.com Sites) is a feature that allows you to create public-facing web pages hosted on the Salesforce platform, accessible without login, that can display Salesforce data through Visualforce pages or Lightning components. Sites are useful for public forms (web-to-lead, event registration), information portals, and any scenario where unauthenticated users need to interact with Salesforce data.
Sites run under a guest user profile that defines what data the public pages can access. Security configuration of the guest user profile is critical because it determines what unauthenticated visitors can see. Mature deployments configure guest user access with extreme care, applying least privilege to prevent unintended data exposure.
How organizations use Sites
Uses Salesforce Sites for their web-to-lead landing pages with public form submissions.
Configures guest user profiles carefully for Sites to prevent unintended data exposure.
Treats guest user security as critical for any public-facing Salesforce Site.
Trust & references
Straight from the source - Salesforce's reference material on Sites.
- Salesforce SitesSalesforce Help
- Set Up Salesforce SitesSalesforce Help
Test your knowledge
Q1. What are Salesforce Sites?
Q2. What's critical for Sites security?
Q3. What can Sites display?
Discussion
Loading discussion…