Our client since 2017, Here Comes The Guide is a women-owned & operated website showcasing top-notch wedding venues and down-to-earth planning advice with a hint of sass.
We’re proud that they’ve been our client for many years. We’re not proud that it took so long to speed up their slow site search. Previously most any search took multiple seconds to complete.
HCTG is a directory of wedding resources, and its most important job is to help couples and wedding planners quickly and easily find what they are looking for. Slow search means high friction. Friction is terrible on a website.
After evaluating possible technical solutions and building a simple demo to test our assumptions, we settled on integrating Meilisearch into herecomestheguide.com.
We brought the idea of solving the search problem with an appliance like Algolia or Meilisearch to the table. We educated the client, conducted the discovery, built the prototype, and ultimately completed the full integration and launch.
Faceted site search on HCTG has been reduced from multiple seconds to mere fractions of a second. It’s so fast it almost looks fake!