MyFootballFacts
MyFootballFacts holds a vast archive of football statistics, trivia and history: more than 45,000 published pages. Its size had broken the old navigation, so we restructured it, moved it onto our own servers and made it fast again.
Stats. Stories. Passion.
So much content that the legacy navigation had failed, leaving a treasure trove of data hard to find, and a site that struggled under load.
Restructured everything into logical sections, rebuilt the site, then migrated it onto our own servers and tuned it for scale.
45,399 published pages, organised, findable and served quickly, with nothing lost along the way.
This isn’t a blog with some stats. It’s 20,378 match pages, 15,291 player pages, 289 teams, 239 venues and 58 seasons across eight competitions, from the Premier League and La Liga to the SPL, MLS and the World Cup, plus more than 9,000 articles. Every one of them has to be findable, fast and correctly linked to the others.
In September 2026 we moved the whole site onto our own servers, behind Bunny’s CDN. Every contact-form submission came across, and we backfilled 91,318 image files with zero errors. Nothing was lost in transit.
Big sites attract a lot of crawlers, and not all of them are polite. Under load, pages were taking 11 to 19 seconds to generate. We tracked down the bottleneck, fixed it without taking the site down, and generation time fell to 2.6 to 3.8 seconds. Then we reined in the greediest crawlers, while leaving Google and Bing alone.
Pages are served from the edge, close to the visitor, and if the server is ever slow, visitors keep getting pages while it catches up.
Real numbers. We counted.
Every table, stat and trivia point moved across and re-organised, then the whole site moved servers with every form submission and image intact.
A mobile-first design and navigation that gets you from a season to a match to a player in a few clicks, across more than 45,000 pages.
Past a certain size, how a site is served matters as much as how it’s built. How it’s tuned, cached and protected is what keeps a site this big quick.
Barrie Moran
Founder / Chief Instigator
Ric
Development
Cameron
Design
Ailsa
Marketing Manager
