# Just Pused: Search \`count\` search type **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 23, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pused-search-count-search-type/3970 "2011-02-23T22:31:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pused-search-count-search-type/3970/1 "2011-02-23T22:31:07Z")
Heya, Just pushed support for a new `search_type` called `count`. This will return (and optimize) to only provide the total\_hits, while still returning things like facets. A hack to do that was to set size to 0, but with the new search type, it will be much more optimized to compute just the total\_hits. -shay.banon ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pused-search-count-search-type/3970/2 "2011-02-23T23:28:47Z")
How did you know I need it? 🙂 Is this only syntax sugar compared to "size":0 approach or is there any valuable optimization? Regards, Lukas On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Shay Banon [shay.banon@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.banon@elasticsearch.com)wrote: > Heya, > > Just pushed support for a new `search_type` called `count`. This will > return (and optimize) to only provide the total\_hits, while still returning > things like facets. > > A hack to do that was to set size to 0, but with the new search type, it > will be much more optimized to compute just the total\_hits. > > -shay.banon ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pused-search-count-search-type/3970/3 "2011-02-24T01:30:42Z")
There is valuable optimization compared to setting size to 0. Though, I plan to do that automatically when setting size to 0 (but still like the fact that there is a specific "type" for that). On Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Lukáš Vlček wrote: > How did you know I need it? 🙂 > > Is this only syntax sugar compared to "size":0 approach or is there any valuable optimization? > > Regards, > Lukas > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Shay Banon [shay.banon@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.banon@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > Just pushed support for a new `search_type` called `count`. This will return (and optimize) to only provide the total\_hits, while still returning things like facets. > > > > A hack to do that was to set size to 0, but with the new search type, it will be much more optimized to compute just the total\_hits. > > > > -shay.banon ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/just-pused-search-count-search-type/3970/4 "2017-07-06T04:11:36Z")