There's an even easier way to change the hit count for a Joomla article. Check out Maintenance Monday #130 to find out! • An Easier Way to Change Joomla Articl... The hit count for a Joomla article is used to display articles by order of popularity. However, if you copy content over from another site (which starts it with "zero" hits) or have an error page that has a super high hit count, you probably want to change the hit count so the ordering plays nicely. How to change the hit count for a Joomla article is what today's maintenance Monday live stream is all about.