Manual:Hitcounter table

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Hitcounter table

The hitcounter table in MediaWiki is a temporary buffer for storage of page view information. Depending on the value of the $wgHitcounterUpdateFreq setting, the table stores the page_id value of any pages that were visited in its hc_id field. The number in the setting is then fed into a randomizer, which then updates the page_counter fields of the stored pages when the random number is equal to a particular value.

This table was introduced in MediaWiki 1.3, and will always be empty if $wgDisableCounters is set to true.

[edit] Fields

[edit] Hc_id

Contains the page_id of each visited page in the buffer.

[edit] Schema summary

DESCRIBE hitcounter in MediaWiki 1.9 and earlier gives the following:

+-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| hc_id | int(10) unsigned | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
+-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+