On the Live site tab you can see the product as it is currently displayed on the live site to website visitors.

 

•If the product does not use workflow and its Publish from property (if available) is set to a future date and time, the Live site tab does not display any content.

•If the product uses workflow and did not get to the Published step yet, no content is displayed.

•If the product uses workflow, it already got to the Published workflow step and its workflow cycle has been restarted (i.e. it was switched from the Published/Archived workflow step back to the Edit step and is going through the workflow cycle again), the last published version is displayed.