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LinkedIn Profile Preview

See how your profile card reads to visitors: photo, name, and headline, including the width cut in the feed and comments.

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Preview: how it looks on your profile

Your headline appears here

Your city · Contact info

In the feed and comments

Your name

Your headline appears here

Click the photo to use your own, and click the name to change it. Both stay in your browser.

What a visitor actually sees first

Your profile makes its first impression with three things: the photo, the name, and the headline. Everything else on the page is read only by people those three already convinced.

The same three follow you around the platform. Every post, every comment, and every search result shows them, with the headline cut to whatever width the screen allows. The preview above shows both views at once.

How to preview your profile on LinkedIn itself

  1. Your own profile page shows the signed-in member view, minus the edit pencils.
  2. For the public view, open Settings, then “Edit public profile & URL”. The right-hand preview there is what people who are not signed in can see, and the toggles control it.
  3. For the view that matters most, look at one of your own comments in the feed: that tiny name-plus-headline row is how most people meet you.

The width cut on your headline

In the feed and in comments, LinkedIn truncates your headline by available width, not by a character count. A phone in portrait shows a couple of dozen characters; a wide desktop shows more.

That makes the order of the words the real decision. Put who you help and what they get in the first few words, and treat everything after as a bonus for wider screens. The feed row in the preview above makes the cut visible.

A photo that works at avatar size

Your photo renders anywhere from a large profile circle down to a comment row smaller than a fingernail. The photos that survive that range share a few traits:

  • The face fills most of the frame. A full-body shot becomes an unrecognisable speck at comment size.
  • A plain, contrasting background. Busy backgrounds swallow the face when the circle shrinks.
  • Even, natural light. Harsh shadows read as noise at small sizes.
  • Recent enough to be recognised. The photo's job includes matching the person who turns up on the call.

Terms on this page

TermWhat it means
Profile cardThe banner, photo, name, and headline block at the top of your profile.
Feed rowThe small photo-name-headline line shown on your posts and comments.
HeadlineThe line under your name, width-truncated everywhere outside your profile.
Public profileThe version non-members and search engines see, controlled in settings.
BannerThe wide image behind the top of the profile card.

Frequently asked questions

How do I preview my LinkedIn profile?
Two ways. On LinkedIn, your own profile page shows the member view, and Settings, then “Edit public profile & URL”, shows and controls the public one. For the card itself, use the preview above: type a headline, set your name and photo, and see the profile card and the truncated feed row side by side without touching your live profile.
Can I see my profile the way someone else sees it?
The public, signed-out version, yes: LinkedIn's “Edit public profile & URL” page shows exactly what non-members and search engines get. Signed-in visitors see roughly what you see on your own profile page, without the edit controls. What no setting shows you is the feed row, which is where this preview helps.
What shows of my profile in the feed and comments?
Your photo, your name, and as much of your headline as fits the width of the screen. That row is the whole pitch for clicking through to your profile, which is why the first words of the headline carry so much weight.
Why try a headline here instead of editing my profile?
Editing your live profile publishes every draft to anyone who looks, and profile edits can notify your network. Here you can try five versions in a minute, see each one in the card and in the feed row, and update LinkedIn once, with the winner.
Is my photo or headline uploaded anywhere?
No. The photo is resized in your browser and kept in your browser's local storage, and the headline never leaves the page. There is no signup and nothing is sent to a server.
Is this an exact copy of LinkedIn's profile page?
No, deliberately. It is a labelled mock in this site's styling that gets the load-bearing parts right: the card hierarchy of photo, name, and headline, and the width truncation in the feed row. For pixel-exact truth, check your own comment row on LinkedIn after you update.
Does viewing a profile notify the person?
Viewing a real profile on LinkedIn can appear in that person's viewer list, depending on your private-mode setting. That is one more reason to audition changes here: previewing your own card in this mock touches nothing on LinkedIn and notifies no one.
What makes a good LinkedIn profile photo?
One that still reads as you at comment-row size: face filling most of the frame, plain background, even light. Test it small before committing, which is exactly what the feed row in this preview shows. Professional does not have to mean formal; recognisable matters more than polished.
Do people who are not signed in see my photo?
That is your choice. LinkedIn's photo visibility setting ranges from public through network-only, and the public profile settings page controls what signed-out visitors and search engines get. If your photo is restricted, strangers see an empty circle where the preview above shows one.
Should the banner say anything?
It is the largest surface on the card and the least read, so treat it as reinforcement, not information. A clean visual tied to your work, or one short line restating the headline's promise, works. Anything that needs reading glasses at phone width is wasted there.
How often should I update my profile photo?
When it stops looking like the person who shows up on calls. A photo that is a decade young reads as a small dishonesty at the first meeting. The headline changes with your focus; the photo only needs to keep up with you.

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