Large-Scale Civic Information Site Built with Hugo

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I recently launched a civic information site built entirely with Hugo, focused on performance and a structured content architecture. It uses custom taxonomies, JSON-driven components, and clean permalinks without any JS frameworks. If anyone is interested in seeing how I structured it in production, here’s the live build: https://federalvoice.com/

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Is there anything I’m missing from Hugo Core features?

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Man, epic website! Can you share Github repo or it’s private? For learning purposes.

By the way, question - how do you display these circle graphic charts? And where do you store data for them? It comes from data files or front matter values?

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the repo is private but for the data i use a json file to store the data

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Hard to guess without seeing the … source.

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I’m using Hugo image resources, but it seems like the images are resized and renamed. Does this affect SEO images every time the image name changes?

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Hugo does not scale images by itself. To preserve the original name, you could use resources.Copy:

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Can you tell please, how you implement compare functionality? Compare Two Politicians | FederalVoice | FederalVoice

All the data previously stored within json?

Or are you fetching data in real time from the server?

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Why not open the page in your browser, turn on your developer tools and have a look?

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you can do either or store in on local. but al my fresh data is installed on firebase and to prevent from being billed for bandwith . i run a weekly refresh that push my fresh data from firebase to local. all the data processing and and content is done outsite hugo.

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                  │  EN   
──────────────────┼───────
 Pages            │ 27190 
 Paginator pages  │    45 
 Non-page files   │    33 
 Static files     │ 23671 
 Processed images │     0 
 Aliases          │     6 
 Cleaned          │     0

im running into any issue where netlify can’t build and deploy my site anymore.