diff --git a/core/modules/search/src/Tests/SearchRankingTest.php b/core/modules/search/src/Tests/SearchRankingTest.php
index 7293a06f8c..cf9185136d 100644
--- a/core/modules/search/src/Tests/SearchRankingTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/search/src/Tests/SearchRankingTest.php
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ public function testRankings() {
     // Simulating content views is kind of difficult in the test. Leave that
     // to the Statistics module. So instead go ahead and manually update the
     // counter for this node.
+    \Drupal::service('statistics.storage')->createTable(\Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getDefinition('node'));
     $nid = $nodes['views'][1]->id();
     db_insert('node_counter')
       ->fields(['totalcount' => 5, 'daycount' => 5, 'timestamp' => REQUEST_TIME, 'nid' => $nid])
diff --git a/core/modules/statistics/src/StatisticsDatabaseStorage.php b/core/modules/statistics/src/StatisticsDatabaseStorage.php
index 7aa57460a2..883556cfdc 100644
--- a/core/modules/statistics/src/StatisticsDatabaseStorage.php
+++ b/core/modules/statistics/src/StatisticsDatabaseStorage.php
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ public function fetchAll(EntityTypeInterface $entity_type, $order = 'totalcount'
     catch (\Exception $e) {
       $this->catchException($entity_type, $e);
     }
+    return [];
   }
 
   /**
@@ -122,6 +123,7 @@ public function deleteViews(EntityTypeInterface $entity_type, $id) {
     catch (\Exception $e) {
       $this->catchException($entity_type, $e);
     }
+    return FALSE;
   }
 
   /**