Essential Viewfinder is a Level 8 Local Guide. We’ve been tracking these stats for 11 months. So far, about 172.29M photo views have been recorded.
Highly efficient: Every point earned corresponds to an average of 10.2K photo views. Delivering a strong visual performance, the guide earns about 78.2K impressions for every single shot. Well above average: this contributor comfortably secures a spot within the best 5% worldwide. Proving incredible portfolio performance, the account pulls in an average daily yield of 38.6 views per image. Only 6.2K views behind Chan M. Busy with the camera: the account deposited 10 new photos in the latest monthly timeframe.
Approx. 2.5 years remaining
Monthly increase in photo views for Essential Viewfinder
| Total | Ø | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 20.72M | 2,302,645 | 0 | 6,376,423 | 2,309,807 | 2,201,197 | 2,425,849 | 2,374,662 | 2,236,802 | 2,487,158 | 311,907 | - | - | - |
| 2025 | 2.16M | 540,200 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 47,873 | 1,751,908 | 361,020 | 0 |
Monthly increase in uploaded photos for Essential Viewfinder
| Total | Ø | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 77 | 9 | 0 | 26 | -1 | 23 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 10 | 0 | - | - | - |
| 2025 | -5 | -1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | 15 | -20 | 0 |
Growth & Trends
About Google Local Guides Ranking
What are Local Guides?
The Google Local Guides program is a global community of explorers who write reviews, share photos, answer questions, add or edit places, and check facts on Google Maps. Millions of people rely on these contributions to decide where to go and what to do.
Local Guides earn points for their contributions, which can help them reach higher program levels and unlock exclusive benefits along the way.
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LocalGuides-Ranking.com makes the performance of Google Maps contributions transparent. As of September 6, 2026, the dataset covers 314,600 profiles, totaling 5.36T photo views and 575.9M photos.
- Momentum: +11.16B views (24h) · +246.82B views (7 days) · 312,363 profiles updated (24h) · 22,367 new profiles (30 days)
- Milestones: 208 profiles ≥ 1 Billion views · Top: 41.61B views · 9,866 ≥ 100M · 84,190 ≥ 10M
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