diff --git a/meilisearch-core/src/criterion/exact.rs b/meilisearch-core/src/criterion/exact.rs
index e9ae1b5dc..c3e7aba9c 100644
--- a/meilisearch-core/src/criterion/exact.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-core/src/criterion/exact.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fn number_exact_matches(
     query_index: &[u32],
     attribute: &[u16],
     is_exact: &[bool],
-    fields_counts: &Set<(SchemaAttr, u64)>,
+    fields_counts: &Set<(SchemaAttr, u16)>,
 ) -> usize {
     let mut count = 0;
     let mut index = 0;
diff --git a/meilisearch-core/src/lib.rs b/meilisearch-core/src/lib.rs
index e9ba84a41..0bc07e27e 100644
--- a/meilisearch-core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-core/src/lib.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pub use self::ranked_map::RankedMap;
 pub use self::raw_document::RawDocument;
 pub use self::store::Index;
 pub use self::update::{EnqueuedUpdateResult, ProcessedUpdateResult, UpdateStatus, UpdateType};
-pub use meilisearch_types::{DocIndex, DocumentId, Highlight};
+pub use meilisearch_types::{DocIndex, DocumentId, Highlight, AttrCount};
 
 #[doc(hidden)]
 #[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
diff --git a/meilisearch-core/src/query_builder.rs b/meilisearch-core/src/query_builder.rs
index 132dda557..87b4e9021 100644
--- a/meilisearch-core/src/query_builder.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-core/src/query_builder.rs
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ mod tests {
 
             let mut words_fst = BTreeSet::new();
             let mut postings_lists = HashMap::new();
-            let mut fields_counts = HashMap::<_, u64>::new();
+            let mut fields_counts = HashMap::<_, u16>::new();
 
             for (word, indexes) in iter {
                 let word = word.to_lowercase().into_bytes();
diff --git a/meilisearch-core/src/raw_document.rs b/meilisearch-core/src/raw_document.rs
index 291e532be..1ecb9322d 100644
--- a/meilisearch-core/src/raw_document.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-core/src/raw_document.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pub struct RawDocument {
     pub id: DocumentId,
     pub matches: SharedMatches,
     pub highlights: Vec<Highlight>,
-    pub fields_counts: SetBuf<(SchemaAttr, u64)>,
+    pub fields_counts: SetBuf<(SchemaAttr, u16)>,
 }
 
 impl RawDocument {
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ impl fmt::Debug for RawDocument {
 pub fn raw_documents_from(
     matches: SetBuf<(DocumentId, TmpMatch)>,
     highlights: SetBuf<(DocumentId, Highlight)>,
-    fields_counts: SetBuf<(DocumentId, SchemaAttr, u64)>,
+    fields_counts: SetBuf<(DocumentId, SchemaAttr, u16)>,
 ) -> Vec<RawDocument> {
     let mut docs_ranges: Vec<(_, Range, _, _)> = Vec::new();
     let mut matches2 = Matches::with_capacity(matches.len());
diff --git a/meilisearch-core/src/serde/serializer.rs b/meilisearch-core/src/serde/serializer.rs
index c083991f5..2016cd314 100644
--- a/meilisearch-core/src/serde/serializer.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-core/src/serde/serializer.rs
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ where
                 txn,
                 document_id,
                 attribute,
-                number_of_words as u64,
+                number_of_words as u16,
             )?;
         }
     }
diff --git a/meilisearch-core/src/store/documents_fields_counts.rs b/meilisearch-core/src/store/documents_fields_counts.rs
index 72ac7a2f8..0a7eb1bbf 100644
--- a/meilisearch-core/src/store/documents_fields_counts.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-core/src/store/documents_fields_counts.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use meilisearch_schema::SchemaAttr;
 
 #[derive(Copy, Clone)]
 pub struct DocumentsFieldsCounts {
-    pub(crate) documents_fields_counts: heed::Database<OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u64>>,
+    pub(crate) documents_fields_counts: heed::Database<OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u16>>,
 }
 
 impl DocumentsFieldsCounts {
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ impl DocumentsFieldsCounts {
         writer: &mut heed::RwTxn<MainT>,
         document_id: DocumentId,
         attribute: SchemaAttr,
-        value: u64,
+        value: u16,
     ) -> ZResult<()> {
         let key = DocumentAttrKey::new(document_id, attribute);
         self.documents_fields_counts.put(writer, &key, &value)
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ impl DocumentsFieldsCounts {
         reader: &heed::RoTxn<MainT>,
         document_id: DocumentId,
         attribute: SchemaAttr,
-    ) -> ZResult<Option<u64>> {
+    ) -> ZResult<Option<u16>> {
         let key = DocumentAttrKey::new(document_id, attribute);
         match self.documents_fields_counts.get(reader, &key)? {
             Some(count) => Ok(Some(count)),
@@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ impl DocumentsFieldsCounts {
 }
 
 pub struct DocumentFieldsCountsIter<'txn> {
-    iter: heed::RoRange<'txn, OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u64>>,
+    iter: heed::RoRange<'txn, OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u16>>,
 }
 
 impl Iterator for DocumentFieldsCountsIter<'_> {
-    type Item = ZResult<(SchemaAttr, u64)>;
+    type Item = ZResult<(SchemaAttr, u16)>;
 
     fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
         match self.iter.next() {
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ impl Iterator for DocumentFieldsCountsIter<'_> {
 
 pub struct DocumentsIdsIter<'txn> {
     last_seen_id: Option<DocumentId>,
-    iter: heed::RoIter<'txn, OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u64>>,
+    iter: heed::RoIter<'txn, OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u16>>,
 }
 
 impl Iterator for DocumentsIdsIter<'_> {
@@ -123,11 +123,11 @@ impl Iterator for DocumentsIdsIter<'_> {
 }
 
 pub struct AllDocumentsFieldsCountsIter<'txn> {
-    iter: heed::RoIter<'txn, OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u64>>,
+    iter: heed::RoIter<'txn, OwnedType<DocumentAttrKey>, OwnedType<u16>>,
 }
 
 impl Iterator for AllDocumentsFieldsCountsIter<'_> {
-    type Item = ZResult<(DocumentId, SchemaAttr, u64)>;
+    type Item = ZResult<(DocumentId, SchemaAttr, u16)>;
 
     fn next(&mut self) -> Option<Self::Item> {
         match self.iter.next() {
diff --git a/meilisearch-types/src/lib.rs b/meilisearch-types/src/lib.rs
index c02281a5f..3419c61fd 100644
--- a/meilisearch-types/src/lib.rs
+++ b/meilisearch-types/src/lib.rs
@@ -63,3 +63,11 @@ pub struct Highlight {
     /// without needing to run the tokenizer again.
     pub char_length: u16,
 }
+
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "zerocopy", derive(AsBytes, FromBytes))]
+#[repr(C)]
+pub struct AttrCount {
+    pub attr: u16,
+    pub count: u16,
+}