it also depend on how fast your server can query 500.000 listings to determine their position and the marker to use on the map.

What kind of server are you using, if you scale up the number of listings, you should consider scaling the server used too.

Next assignement for Stiofan is improving general speed (not only maps), we will try to do server side clustering and caching of map markers, but even after that, making available a map showing all 500k listing wouldn’t be a good idea, even if you had a server powerful enough to create it.

I would consider making sure that nobody can access a page where the map is showing all the markers at once.

Thanks

Processor: Intel®Xeon® E5-2640
Speed: 6 Cores (HT) x 2.5 GHz(3.0 GHz Turbo Boost)
RAM: 32 GB DDR3 ECC
Hard-disk space: 2,000 GB (2 x 2,000 GB SATA)
RAID: Software RAID 1

It’s not just unable to display map markers for the whole database of listings, but also for “near me” searches and under other circumstances.

How could I ensure that no one can access “/location” since it is linked in the breadcrumbs?

Something else, which I can start as its own thread, is the issue of map markers that are not placed within the correct state. Let’s say almost all markers are in Pennsylvania, but someone accidentally adds a marker that is in Alaska, then the map for Pennsylvania will be zoomed out to show Alaska as well. Of course I could manually go in and fix all these errors, but it is a very large database, so is there any way to make it so “/location/united-states/pennsylvania” is only zoomed in on that state? It would be great if I could manually set the position and zoom for each state (region).

Thanks for your help.

the server can’t get much better than this I guess, maybe consider using Nginx instead of Apache if you aren’t already.

After Stiofan’s optimization, it should work much much better and actually if you’d be willing to help us test on your database with that many listings, we could probably fine tune even better.

To provide a suggestion on how to prevent to show maps with too many listings, I’d need to have a look at your current structure. I was assuming you had a worldwide directory, but if the 500k listings are all in 1 state the solution needed could be different. For the location/me page, restricting the radius to a very low number would definitely help, returing less results. If you have that many listings in a small area it could be good to present only the closests.

In any case, would you mind sharing a link a wp admin credentials to have a look at it? I might suggest better ideas after seeing the website.

Let us know,

Thanks

thank you, I’m having a look at it.

i can reply already for the new problem raised. That is due to the wrong map used in the listings page.

You should use the GD > Gmap listings page map, not the Home map.

I’ll provide more info after reviewing the website a bit more.

Thanks

Okay, that makes sense about the listings map.