Hello everyone! Today we have a very special reason to celebrate: Local Guides Ranking has cracked the magic mark of 100,000 profiles!
When we launched the site about a year and a half ago, this was absolutely unthinkable for us. We never dared to dream that we would reach such a massive number of profiles – let alone that we would technically manage to reliably update all this data every single day. A huge thank you to all of you for your tremendous interest!
To ensure that everything continues to run smoothly at this scale, there were minor changes "under the hood" again last weekend. Just like last time, we completely migrated the site to a new cloud server. While our host and the server hardware remained the same, we switched the underlying web server software: We are no longer running on LiteSpeed, but on NGINX.
Why all this effort? We are constantly working on performance improvements in the background. You might not be able to see these optimizations directly on your screen, but you should be able to feel them – in the form of consistently fast loading times, even with over 100,000 profiles.
Finally, a quick update on the new design: We are still busy tinkering with it behind the scenes! The rebuild is unfortunately dragging on a little bit, but we are definitely staying on it.
Best regards,
Your team from LGR
