---
title: "Faster pages, fewer database calls"
description: County and city pages keep their data for a day, the directory waits for you to stop typing, and a dozen background jobs do less work.
type: changelog
date: 2026-10-10
changelog:
  version: "0.64.0"
  category: Improvements
---

Before many more people start using Front Door, we cut the work our pages and background jobs ask of our database. By our estimate, it is about a seventh of what it was.
Most of what you see stays the same, and some pages load faster. One change: a broken link can now stay up to about ten days before we fix or hide it, a few days longer than before.

- **County and city pages keep their data for a day.** Before, every update to the site made each county and city page
  ask the database again. Now the answer is kept for a day, even across updates. When we add new offices, food sites or
  job centers for a state, its pages refresh on their own.
- **Search waits for you to stop typing.** In Help nearby, the search runs once you pause, not once for every letter,
  and only after two letters.
- **The officials page is ready faster.** The page for officials with no choices picked is the same for everyone, so it
  is built once every 15 minutes instead of for each visit. Picking a state or a kind of help works as before.
- **Link checks run once a week.** We check every link on local offices, nonprofits and programs each Monday, and check
  the broken ones again on Thursday. A link broken both times is fixed or hidden that day, so a broken link can stay up
  to about ten days (it was about six). The link board on the status page is now for the Front Door team only.
- **Less to keep.** Old sign-ins and old limits on how often someone can ask are now deleted on a schedule. Deleting
  your account no longer reads everyone else's records to find yours.