diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Admin/Sites.razor b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Admin/Sites.razor
index 34a34218..3c94acda 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Admin/Sites.razor
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI/Components/Pages/Admin/Sites.razor
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 @using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Interfaces.Repositories
 @using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication
 @using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager
+@using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager.PendingUpdates
 @attribute [Authorize(Policy = AuthorizationPolicies.RequireAdmin)]
 @inject ISiteRepository SiteRepository
+@inject IPendingUpdatesCache PendingUpdates
 @inject ArtifactDeploymentService ArtifactDeploymentService
 @inject CommunicationService CommunicationService
 @inject AuthenticationStateProvider AuthStateProvider
@@ -20,8 +22,23 @@
 
 <div class="container-fluid mt-3">
     <div class="d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center mb-3">
-        <h4 class="mb-0">Site Management</h4>
+        <div class="d-flex align-items-baseline">
+            <h4 class="mb-0">Site Management</h4>
+            @if (_updates is not null)
+            {
+                <span class="small text-muted ms-2">Updates as of @_updates.ComputedAt.ToString("HH:mm:ss") UTC</span>
+            }
+        </div>
         <div class="d-flex gap-2">
+            <button class="btn btn-outline-secondary btn-sm" aria-label="Re-check pending updates"
+                    title="Re-evaluate artifact and instance staleness for every site"
+                    @onclick="() => LoadUpdatesAsync(true)" disabled="@_recheckingUpdates">
+                @if (_recheckingUpdates)
+                {
+                    <span class="spinner-border spinner-border-sm me-1" role="status" aria-hidden="true"></span>
+                }
+                Re-check
+            </button>
             <div class="dropdown">
                 <button class="btn btn-outline-secondary btn-sm dropdown-toggle"
                         data-bs-toggle="dropdown" disabled="@_deploying">
@@ -90,7 +107,7 @@
                             <div class="d-flex justify-content-between align-items-start mb-2">
                                 <div>
                                     <h5 class="card-title mb-1">@site.Name</h5>
-                                    <code class="small">@site.SiteIdentifier</code>
+                                    <code class="small">@site.SiteIdentifier</code>@ArtifactBadge(site.Id)
                                 </div>
                                 <div class="d-flex gap-1">
                                     <button class="btn btn-outline-primary btn-sm"
@@ -124,6 +141,11 @@
                                 @(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(site.Description) ? "—" : site.Description)
                             </p>
 
+                            @if (_updatesBySite.GetValueOrDefault(site.Id) is { DeployedInstanceCount: > 0 } u)
+                            {
+                                <div class="small text-muted mb-2">@InstanceSummary(u) — <a href="/deployment/topology">Topology</a></div>
+                            }
+
                             <div class="small text-muted mb-1">Data connections</div>
                             @if (conns is { Count: > 0 })
                             {
@@ -178,6 +200,14 @@
     private bool _deploying;
     private string _search = "";
 
+    // Fleet-wide pending-updates snapshot behind the per-card Artifacts badge and the
+    // "N of M instances out of date" line. Loaded AFTER the site list (§3.3): the first
+    // evaluation flattens every site and can take seconds, and the cards must not wait.
+    private PendingUpdatesSnapshot? _updates;
+    private string? _updatesError;
+    private bool _recheckingUpdates;
+    private Dictionary<int, SitePendingUpdates> _updatesBySite = new();
+
     private ToastNotification _toast = default!;
 
     private IEnumerable<Site> FilteredSites =>
@@ -211,6 +241,40 @@
             _errorMessage = $"Failed to load sites: {ex.Message}";
         }
         _loading = false;
+
+        // Render the cards now — the pending-updates evaluation below is a whole-fleet
+        // flatten and must never hold the list behind it.
+        StateHasChanged();
+
+        await LoadUpdatesAsync(force: false);
+        StateHasChanged();
+    }
+
+    // Loads (or re-evaluates) the fleet-wide pending-updates snapshot. Never throws:
+    // a failure degrades the badges to "unavailable" and leaves the site list intact.
+    private async Task LoadUpdatesAsync(bool force)
+    {
+        if (force)
+        {
+            _recheckingUpdates = true;
+        }
+
+        try
+        {
+            var snapshot = await PendingUpdates.GetAsync(force);
+            _updates = snapshot;
+            _updatesBySite = snapshot.Sites.ToDictionary(s => s.SiteId);
+            _updatesError = null;
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex)
+        {
+            _updatesError = ex.Message;
+            Logger.LogWarning(ex, "Pending-updates evaluation failed; Sites page badges show unavailable.");
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            _recheckingUpdates = false;
+        }
     }
 
     private async Task DeleteSite(Site site)
@@ -245,7 +309,11 @@
                 site.Id, site.SiteIdentifier, user);
 
             if (result.IsSuccess)
+            {
                 _toast.ShowSuccess($"Artifacts deployed to '{site.Name}'.");
+                // Force a re-evaluation so the badge flips to current immediately.
+                await LoadUpdatesAsync(force: true);
+            }
             else
                 _toast.ShowError($"Deploy to '{site.Name}' failed: {result.Error}");
         }
@@ -272,6 +340,8 @@
                 var summary = result.Value!;
                 _toast.ShowSuccess(
                     $"Artifacts deployed: {summary.SuccessCount} succeeded, {summary.FailureCount} failed.");
+                // Force a re-evaluation so the badges flip to current immediately.
+                await LoadUpdatesAsync(force: true);
             }
             else
             {
@@ -288,6 +358,56 @@
         }
     }
 
+    // Per-site Artifacts badge. Bootstrap .badge markup, matching the Topology page's
+    // Stale/Current convention. A site absent from the snapshot (created after the
+    // evaluation ran) reads as "checking…" rather than claiming a state it has not seen.
+    private RenderFragment ArtifactBadge(int siteId) => __builder =>
+    {
+        if (_updatesError is not null)
+        {
+            <span class="badge bg-light text-dark ms-2" title="@_updatesError"
+                  aria-label="Artifacts: unavailable">Artifacts: unavailable</span>
+        }
+        else if (_updatesBySite.GetValueOrDefault(siteId) is not { } u)
+        {
+            <span class="badge bg-light text-dark ms-2" aria-label="Artifacts: checking">Artifacts: checking…</span>
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            switch (u.ArtifactState)
+            {
+                case ArtifactDeploymentState.Current:
+                    <span class="badge bg-light text-dark ms-2" aria-label="Artifacts: current">Artifacts current</span>
+                    break;
+                case ArtifactDeploymentState.OutOfDate:
+                    <span class="badge bg-warning text-dark ms-2"
+                          title="@(u.ArtifactsDeployedAt is { } at ? $"Artifacts last deployed {at.ToString("u")}" : null)"
+                          aria-label="Artifacts: out of date"><i class="bi bi-exclamation-triangle me-1"></i>Artifacts out of date</span>
+                    break;
+                case ArtifactDeploymentState.NeverDeployed:
+                default:
+                    <span class="badge bg-secondary ms-2" aria-label="Artifacts: never deployed">Artifacts never deployed</span>
+                    break;
+            }
+        }
+    };
+
+    // "2 of 5 instances out of date, 1 could not be evaluated" — built as one string so
+    // the rendered text stays contiguous (Razor would interleave layout whitespace).
+    private static string InstanceSummary(SitePendingUpdates u)
+    {
+        var text = u.StaleInstanceCount == 0
+            ? $"All {u.DeployedInstanceCount} instances current"
+            : $"{u.StaleInstanceCount} of {u.DeployedInstanceCount} instances out of date";
+
+        if (u.UnknownInstanceCount > 0)
+        {
+            text += $", {u.UnknownInstanceCount} could not be evaluated";
+        }
+
+        return text;
+    }
+
     private RenderFragment ClusterRow(string label, string? address) => __builder =>
     {
         <div class="row g-1 align-items-center mb-1">
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Admin/SitesPageTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Admin/SitesPageTests.cs
index a171122c..836cc4bb 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Admin/SitesPageTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests/Admin/SitesPageTests.cs
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
 using NSubstitute;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Components.Shared;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Services;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Entities.Sites;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Interfaces.Repositories;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Commons.Interfaces.Services;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Communication;
 using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.DeploymentManager.PendingUpdates;
 using SitesPage = ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Components.Pages.Admin.Sites;
 
 namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests.Admin;
@@ -25,11 +27,18 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.CentralUI.Tests.Admin;
 public class SitesPageTests : BunitContext
 {
     private readonly ISiteRepository _siteRepo = Substitute.For<ISiteRepository>();
+    private readonly IPendingUpdatesCache _pendingUpdates = Substitute.For<IPendingUpdatesCache>();
 
     private void RegisterServices()
     {
         Services.AddSingleton(_siteRepo);
 
+        // Default: an empty snapshot, so the page's badges resolve without a stub.
+        // Individual tests re-stub GetAsync before rendering.
+        _pendingUpdates.GetAsync(Arg.Any<bool>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(_ => Task.FromResult(Snapshot()));
+        Services.AddSingleton(_pendingUpdates);
+
         var comms = new CommunicationService(
             Options.Create(new CommunicationOptions()),
             NullLogger<CommunicationService>.Instance);
@@ -71,6 +80,27 @@ public class SitesPageTests : BunitContext
     private static DataConnection Conn(int siteId, string name)
         => new(name, "OpcUa", siteId);
 
+    private static PendingUpdatesSnapshot Snapshot(params SitePendingUpdates[] sites)
+        => new(new DateTimeOffset(2026, 9, 14, 10, 30, 0, TimeSpan.Zero), sites);
+
+    private static SitePendingUpdates Pending(
+        int siteId,
+        ArtifactDeploymentState state,
+        int deployed = 0,
+        int stale = 0,
+        int unknown = 0)
+        => new(
+            siteId,
+            $"SITE-{siteId}",
+            $"Site{siteId}",
+            state,
+            state == ArtifactDeploymentState.NeverDeployed
+                ? null
+                : new DateTimeOffset(2026, 9, 13, 8, 0, 0, TimeSpan.Zero),
+            deployed,
+            stale,
+            unknown);
+
     [Fact]
     public void LoadData_FetchesAllConnectionsInOneQuery_NoPerSiteQueries()
     {
@@ -103,4 +133,83 @@ public class SitesPageTests : BunitContext
         Assert.Contains("alpha-conn", cut.Markup);
         Assert.Contains("beta-conn", cut.Markup);
     }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void ArtifactBadge_ShowsCurrent_OutOfDate_NeverDeployed()
+    {
+        RegisterServices();
+        _siteRepo.GetAllSitesAsync().Returns(Sites(1, 2, 3));
+        _siteRepo.GetAllDataConnectionsAsync().Returns(new List<DataConnection>());
+        _pendingUpdates.GetAsync(Arg.Any<bool>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(_ => Task.FromResult(Snapshot(
+                Pending(1, ArtifactDeploymentState.Current),
+                Pending(2, ArtifactDeploymentState.OutOfDate),
+                Pending(3, ArtifactDeploymentState.NeverDeployed))));
+
+        var cut = Render<SitesPage>();
+
+        cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
+        {
+            Assert.Contains("aria-label=\"Artifacts: current\"", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("Artifacts current", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("aria-label=\"Artifacts: out of date\"", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("Artifacts out of date", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("aria-label=\"Artifacts: never deployed\"", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("Artifacts never deployed", cut.Markup);
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void InstanceLine_ShowsStaleOfDeployed()
+    {
+        RegisterServices();
+        _siteRepo.GetAllSitesAsync().Returns(Sites(1));
+        _siteRepo.GetAllDataConnectionsAsync().Returns(new List<DataConnection>());
+        _pendingUpdates.GetAsync(Arg.Any<bool>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns(_ => Task.FromResult(Snapshot(
+                Pending(1, ArtifactDeploymentState.Current, deployed: 5, stale: 2, unknown: 1))));
+
+        var cut = Render<SitesPage>();
+
+        cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
+        {
+            Assert.Contains("2 of 5 instances out of date", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("1 could not be evaluated", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("/deployment/topology", cut.Markup);
+        });
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Recheck_ForcesRefresh()
+    {
+        RegisterServices();
+        _siteRepo.GetAllSitesAsync().Returns(Sites(1));
+        _siteRepo.GetAllDataConnectionsAsync().Returns(new List<DataConnection>());
+
+        var cut = Render<SitesPage>();
+        cut.Find("button[aria-label=\"Re-check pending updates\"]").Click();
+
+        cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
+            _pendingUpdates.Received().GetAsync(true, Arg.Any<CancellationToken>()));
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void CacheFault_ShowsUnavailable_AndSitesStillRender()
+    {
+        RegisterServices();
+        _siteRepo.GetAllSitesAsync().Returns(Sites(1, 2));
+        _siteRepo.GetAllDataConnectionsAsync().Returns(new List<DataConnection>());
+        _pendingUpdates.GetAsync(Arg.Any<bool>(), Arg.Any<CancellationToken>())
+            .Returns<Task<PendingUpdatesSnapshot>>(_ => throw new InvalidOperationException("evaluator down"));
+
+        var cut = Render<SitesPage>();
+
+        cut.WaitForAssertion(() =>
+        {
+            // The snapshot failing must never take the site list down with it.
+            Assert.Contains("Site1", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("Site2", cut.Markup);
+            Assert.Contains("Artifacts: unavailable", cut.Markup);
+        });
+    }
 }