Show total count not 'more than 10000 results'

[D-Groenewegen]

Since a recent wiki update, the counter in the top right corner reads something like 'More than 10000 results' or 'Meer dan 10000 resultaten'.

That's not terribly helpful. Please restore the former behaviour that displayed the total number of results.

[marijnvanwezel]

Tracking the total number of hits is fairly inefficient (see https://www.elastic.co/docs/solutions/search/the-search-api#track-total-hits). By default, it only tracks the number of hits accurately up to 10,000 documents. It is currently not possible to change this. Is it really necessary to show the exact number of hits for queries that return more than 10,000 results?

[D-Groenewegen]

It was a request from a client. Maybe this could be broken up :

• When the page loads and the base query is used, without aggregations triggered by any of the facets, is it still that inefficient? Isn't that equivalent to an #ask query with format=count? Maybe the initial counter could still be set to an accurate total.

• The client used to rely on WikiSearchFront for gathering statistics. I'll see though if there are alternative ways we can enable them to do much the same thing without WikiSearchFront. I'm sure they'll value a fast and efficient interface for site searches.