diff --git a/client/simple/src/less/stats.less b/client/simple/src/less/stats.less
index 1e823f7c9..f6c76b870 100644
--- a/client/simple/src/less/stats.less
+++ b/client/simple/src/less/stats.less
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
   .engine-reliability {
     text-align: right;
   }
+
+  .engine-request-count {
+    text-align: right;
+  }
 }
 
 table.engine-error th.engine-error-type,
diff --git a/searx/metrics/__init__.py b/searx/metrics/__init__.py
index 00a811635..1e734b70d 100644
--- a/searx/metrics/__init__.py
+++ b/searx/metrics/__init__.py
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ def initialize(engine_names=None, enabled=True):
     histogram_width = 0.1
     histogram_size = int(1.5 * max_timeout / histogram_width)
 
+    # global
+    counter_storage.configure('search', 'count', 'sent')
+
     # engines
     for engine_name in engine_names or engines:
         # search count
@@ -209,6 +212,7 @@ def get_engines_stats(engine_name_list):
             'score': 0,
             'score_per_result': 0,
             'result_count': result_count,
+            'request_count': sent_count,
         }
 
         if successful_count and result_count_sum:
@@ -244,6 +248,11 @@ def get_engines_stats(engine_name_list):
 
         list_time.append(stats)
 
+    # request_count (per engine) is a percentage of the total number of requests
+    total_request_count = counter('search', 'count', 'sent')
+    for stats in list_time:
+        stats['request_count'] = int(round(stats['request_count'] * 100 / total_request_count, 0))
+
     return {
         'time': list_time,
         'max_time': math.ceil(max_time_total or 0),
diff --git a/searx/search/__init__.py b/searx/search/__init__.py
index 36903b194..659f0853b 100644
--- a/searx/search/__init__.py
+++ b/searx/search/__init__.py
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ class Search:
         # max of all selected engine timeout
         default_timeout = 0
 
+        counter_inc('search', 'count', 'sent')
+
         # start search-request for all selected engines
         for engineref in self.search_query.engineref_list:
             processor = PROCESSORS[engineref.name]
diff --git a/searx/templates/simple/stats.html b/searx/templates/simple/stats.html
index 575f6adb1..f00c1a5d5 100644
--- a/searx/templates/simple/stats.html
+++ b/searx/templates/simple/stats.html
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
         <th scope="col" class="result-count">{{ th_sort('result_count', _('Result count')) }}</th>
         <th scope="col" class="response-time">{{ th_sort('time', _('Response time')) }}</th>
         <th scope="col" class="engine-reliability">{{ th_sort('reliability', _('Reliability')) }}</th>
+        <th scope="col" class="engine-request-count">{{ th_sort('request', _('Request count')) }}</th>
     </tr>
     {% for engine_stat in engine_stats.get('time', []) %}
     <tr>
@@ -83,6 +84,7 @@
             {%- endif -%}
         </td>
         <td class="engine-reliability"> {{ engine_reliabilities.get(engine_stat.name, {}).get('reliability') }}</td>
+        <td class="engine-request-count"> {{ engine_stat.request_count }}</td>
     </tr>
     {% endfor %}
 </table>
diff --git a/searx/webapp.py b/searx/webapp.py
index 7104853e8..f1ccf5b3b 100755
--- a/searx/webapp.py
+++ b/searx/webapp.py
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ STATS_SORT_PARAMETERS = {
     'result_count': (True, 'result_count', 0),
     'time': (False, 'total', 0),
     'reliability': (False, 'reliability', 100),
+    'request': (True, 'request_count', 0),
 }
 
 # Flask app