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Asked: 2026-06-13T19:15:27+00:00

I’m working on a URL shortener project with PHP & MYSQL which tracks visits

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I’m working on a URL shortener project with PHP & MYSQL which tracks visits of each url. I’ve provided a table for visits which mainly consists of these properties : 

time_in_second | country | referrer |  os   | browser | device | url_id
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1348128639     |    US   |   direct |  win  | chrome  | mobile | 3404  
1348128654     |    US   |   google | linux | chrome  | desktop| 3404  
1348124567     |    UK   |   twitter| mac   | mozila  | desktop| 3404  
1348127653     |    IND  |   direct | win   | IE      | desktop| 3465

Now I want to make a query on this table. for example I want to get visits data for the url with url_id=3404. Because I should provide statistics and draw graphs, for this url, I need these data:

  • Number of each kind of OS for this URL , for example 20 windows, 15 linux , …
  • Number of visits in each desired period of time , for example each 10 minutes in past 24 hour
  • Number of visits for each country
  • …

As you see, some data like country may accept lots of different values.

One good idea which I can imagine is to make query which outputs number of each unique value in each column, for example in the country case for the data given above, on column for num_US, one for num_UK, and one for num_IND.

Now the question is how to implement such a high-performance query in sql (MYSQL) ?

Also if you think this is not an efficient query for performance, what’s your suggestion?

Any help will be appreciated deeply.

UPDATE: look at this question : SQL; Only count the values specified in each column . I think this question is similar to mine , but the difference is in variety of values possible (as lots of values are possible for country property) for each column which makes the query more complex.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It looks like you need to do more than one query. You probably could write one query with different parameters but that would make it complex and hard to maintain. I would approach it as multiple small queries. So for each requirement I make a query and call them separately or individually. For example, if you want the country query you mentioned, you could do the following

    SELECT country, count (*) FROM <TABLE_NAME> WHERE url_id = 3404 GROUP BY Country

    By the way, I have not tested this query, so it may be inaccurate, but this is just to give you an idea. I hope this helps.

    Also, another suggestion is to use Google Analytics, look into it, they do have a lot of what you already are implementing, maybe that helps as well.

    Cheers.

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