diff --git a/.github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh b/.github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7b80434d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Refreshes the counters shown on the landing page from the GitHub API.
+#
+# The numbers used to be typed into the templates by hand, which meant they
+# only moved when somebody remembered, and a stale star count on the front
+# page is worse than no star count. Everything the API can answer for lives
+# in website/data/stats.yaml and is rewritten wholesale by this script.
+#
+# Anything the API cannot answer for (the Discord member count) is read back
+# out of the existing file and carried through untouched.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+REPO="${REPO:-mudler/LocalAI}"
+OUT="${OUT:-website/data/stats.yaml}"
+
+# The contributors and releases endpoints are paginated and never report a
+# total. Asking for one item per page makes the last page number equal to the
+# item count, which the Link header hands over.
+count_via_link_header() {
+  local path="$1" link last
+  link=$(gh api -i "${path}?per_page=1" 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\r' | grep -i '^link:' || true)
+  if [ -z "$link" ]; then
+    # No Link header means a single page, so count that page directly.
+    gh api "${path}?per_page=100" --jq 'length'
+    return
+  fi
+  last=$(sed -n 's/.*[?&]page=\([0-9]*\)>; rel="last".*/\1/p' <<<"$link")
+  [ -n "$last" ] || { gh api "${path}?per_page=100" --jq 'length'; return; }
+  printf '%s\n' "$last"
+}
+
+read -r stars forks < <(gh api "repos/${REPO}" --jq '"\(.stargazers_count) \(.forks_count)"')
+contributors=$(count_via_link_header "repos/${REPO}/contributors")
+releases=$(count_via_link_header "repos/${REPO}/releases")
+
+# Not derivable from the GitHub API, so keep whatever is already on disk.
+discord=$(sed -n 's/^discord: *\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p' "$OUT" 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+discord="${discord:-0}"
+
+for n in stars forks contributors releases; do
+  v="${!n}"
+  [[ "$v" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && [ "$v" -gt 0 ] || {
+    echo "refusing to write: ${n} came back as '${v}'" >&2
+    exit 1
+  }
+done
+
+cat > "$OUT" <<YAML
+# Counters shown on the landing page.
+#
+# The four GitHub fields are rewritten by .github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh,
+# which runs weekly from .github/workflows/refresh-site-counters.yml. Editing
+# them by hand works but will be overwritten on the next run.
+stars: ${stars}
+forks: ${forks}
+contributors: ${contributors}
+releases: ${releases}
+
+# The GitHub API cannot answer for this one, so it is maintained by hand and
+# the refresh script carries it through untouched.
+discord: ${discord}
+YAML
+
+echo "stars=${stars} forks=${forks} contributors=${contributors} releases=${releases} discord=${discord}"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/refresh-site-counters.yml b/.github/workflows/refresh-site-counters.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8c3626b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/refresh-site-counters.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+name: Refresh site counters
+
+# The landing page shows a star count, a contributor count and a release
+# count. They were typed in by hand, so they drifted the moment somebody
+# forgot. This pulls the real numbers once a week and commits them only when
+# they have actually moved, which in turn triggers the usual Pages deploy.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Mondays, 06:17 UTC. Off the hour on purpose, since the scheduler queues
+    # everything that asks for :00 and drops what it cannot run.
+    - cron: '17 6 * * 1'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+
+concurrency:
+  group: refresh-site-counters
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  refresh:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Read the counts off the GitHub API
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: ./.github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh
+
+      - name: Commit only if something moved
+        run: |
+          if git diff --quiet -- website/data/stats.yaml; then
+            echo "counters unchanged, nothing to commit"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          git diff --unified=0 -- website/data/stats.yaml
+          git config user.name  "github-actions[bot]"
+          git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+          git add website/data/stats.yaml
+          git commit -m "chore(website): refresh the counters"
+          git push
diff --git a/website/data/stats.yaml b/website/data/stats.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cee0db5e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/data/stats.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Counters shown on the landing page.
+#
+# The four GitHub fields are rewritten by .github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh,
+# which runs weekly from .github/workflows/refresh-site-counters.yml. Editing
+# them by hand works but will be overwritten on the next run.
+stars: 48067
+forks: 4320
+contributors: 225
+releases: 133
+
+# The GitHub API cannot answer for this one, so it is maintained by hand and
+# the refresh script carries it through untouched.
+discord: 3187
diff --git a/website/hugo.toml b/website/hugo.toml
index 968b3a68d..aaced0ac2 100644
--- a/website/hugo.toml
+++ b/website/hugo.toml
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@ enableEmoji = true
   discord = 'https://discord.gg/uJAeKSAGDy'
   x = 'https://twitter.com/LocalAI_API'
   huggingface = 'https://huggingface.co/mudler'
-  # Refreshed by hand or by CI; shown in the nav and the traction band.
-  stars = '48,042'
-  contributors = '224'
+  # Counters live in data/stats.yaml, which .github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh
+  # rewrites weekly. They used to sit here as hand-typed strings and drifted.
 
 [markup.goldmark.renderer]
   unsafe = true
diff --git a/website/layouts/index.html b/website/layouts/index.html
index d0d1b1377..1f7f6f78d 100644
--- a/website/layouts/index.html
+++ b/website/layouts/index.html
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
           <a class="btn btn--o" href="{{ .Site.Params.github }}">&#9733; Star on GitHub</a>
         </div>
         <div class="figures fd">
-          <div><b class="tnum" data-count="48042">0</b><span>GitHub stars</span></div>
+          <div><b class="tnum" data-count="{{ .Site.Data.stats.stars }}">0</b><span>GitHub stars</span></div>
           <div><b class="tnum" data-count="73">0</b><span>Backends</span></div>
-          <div><b class="tnum" data-count="18">0</b><span>Engines we wrote</span></div>
+          <div><b class="tnum" data-count="{{ len .Site.Data.engines.engines }}">0</b><span>Engines we wrote</span></div>
           <div><b class="tnum" data-count="1585">0</b><span>Models, one click</span></div>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
   <div class="shell">
     <div class="bars rv" aria-hidden="true"><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i></div>
     <p class="kicker rv">Engines we build</p>
-    <h2 class="rv mt1" style="max-width:22ch">Eighteen engines, written from scratch.</h2>
+    <h2 class="rv mt1" style="max-width:22ch">{{ len .Site.Data.engines.engines }} engines, written from scratch.</h2>
     <p class="lede rv mt2">Most backends wrap somebody else's engine. These do not. They exist because the thing we needed was a 9 GB Python install, or closed, or nobody had built it yet. Each one is a binary and a GGUF file, checked against the reference implementation in CI.</p>
 
     <div class="spot rv">
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
       <video src="/media/vllm-race.mp4" muted loop playsinline preload="none" data-lazy aria-label="vllm.cpp ahead of vLLM at every concurrency level"></video>
     </div>
 
-    <p class="rv mt2"><a class="btn btn--o" href="/engines/">All eighteen engines →</a></p>
+    <p class="rv mt2"><a class="btn btn--o" href="/engines/">All {{ len .Site.Data.engines.engines }} engines →</a></p>
   </div>
 </section>
 
@@ -363,14 +363,14 @@
     <h2 class="rv mt1" style="max-width:22ch">Forty-eight thousand stars, and still shipping every week.</h2>
     <div class="trend rv">
       <img src="/img/trendshift.svg" alt="LocalAI on Trendshift">
-      <p>LocalAI has been <b>trending on GitHub</b> repeatedly since it launched, and it is one of the most starred self-hosted AI projects there is. <b>224 people</b> have contributed code, <b>3,187</b> are in the Discord, and the README is kept translated into <b>eight languages</b> because the users are everywhere.</p>
+      <p>LocalAI has been <b>trending on GitHub</b> repeatedly since it launched, and it is one of the most starred self-hosted AI projects there is. <b>{{ lang.FormatNumberCustom 0 .Site.Data.stats.contributors }} people</b> have contributed code, <b>{{ lang.FormatNumberCustom 0 .Site.Data.stats.discord }}</b> are in the Discord, and the README is kept translated into <b>eight languages</b> because the users are everywhere.</p>
     </div>
     <div class="big rv">
-      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="48042">0</b><span>Stars</span></div>
-      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="4314">0</b><span>Forks</span></div>
-      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="224">0</b><span>Contributors</span></div>
-      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="133">0</b><span>Releases</span></div>
-      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="3187">0</b><span>In Discord</span></div>
+      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="{{ .Site.Data.stats.stars }}">0</b><span>Stars</span></div>
+      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="{{ .Site.Data.stats.forks }}">0</b><span>Forks</span></div>
+      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="{{ .Site.Data.stats.contributors }}">0</b><span>Contributors</span></div>
+      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="{{ .Site.Data.stats.releases }}">0</b><span>Releases</span></div>
+      <div><b class="tnum" data-count="{{ .Site.Data.stats.discord }}">0</b><span>In Discord</span></div>
       <div><b class="tnum" data-count="0" data-text="3 yrs">0</b><span>Shipping since</span></div>
     </div>
     <div class="tl rv">
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@
          employers reads as a customer logo wall, which is a claim we are not
          making; a sentence keeps it about the people, which is the true one. */}}
     <p class="kicker rv mt3">Who shows up</p>
-    <h3 class="eco__h rv">{{ .Site.Params.contributors }} people have put code in this repository.</h3>
+    <h3 class="eco__h rv">{{ lang.FormatNumberCustom 0 .Site.Data.stats.contributors }} people have put code in this repository.</h3>
     {{- $co := slice }}
     {{- range .Site.Data.ecosystem.contributors.companies }}{{ $co = $co | append (printf "<b>%s</b>" .name) }}{{ end }}
     {{- $ac := slice }}
diff --git a/website/layouts/partials/nav.html b/website/layouts/partials/nav.html
index f8837b6ff..71fed539f 100644
--- a/website/layouts/partials/nav.html
+++ b/website/layouts/partials/nav.html
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     <a href="{{ .Site.Params.docsURL }}">Docs</a>
   </nav>
   <div class="topright">
-    <a class="pill" href="{{ .Site.Params.github }}">&#9733; {{ .Site.Params.stars }}</a>
+    <a class="pill" href="{{ .Site.Params.github }}">&#9733; {{ lang.FormatNumberCustom 0 .Site.Data.stats.stars }}</a>
     <a class="go-btn" href="{{ $home }}#start">Install</a>
   </div>
 </header>