mysql group by using temporary_MySQL GROUP BY with Using Temporary unnecessarily?

I am trying to optimize a query. Using EXPLAIN tells me it is Using temporary. This is really inefficient given the size of the table (20m+ records). Looking at the MySQL documentation Internal Temporary Tables I don't see anything that would imply the need for a Temporary table in my query. I also tried setting the ORDER BY to the same as the GROUP BY, but still says Using Temporary and query takes forever to run. I am using MySQL 5.7.

Is there a way to avoid using a temporary table for this query:

SELECT url,count(*) as sum

FROM `digital_pageviews` as `dp`

WHERE `publisher_uuid` = '8b83120e-3e19-4c34-8556-7b710bd7b812'

GROUP BY url

ORDER BY NULL;

This is my table schema:

create table digital_pageviews

(

id int unsigned auto_increment

primary key,

visitor_uuid char(36) null,

publisher_uuid char(36) default '' not null,

property_uuid char(36) null,

ip_address char(15) not null,

referrer text null,

url_delete text null,

url varchar(255) null,

url_tmp varchar(255) null,

meta text null,

date_created timestamp not null,

date_updated timestamp null

)

collate = utf8_unicode_ci;

create index digital_pageviews_url_index

on digital_pageviews (url);

create index ndx_date_created

on digital_pageviews (date_created);

create index ndx_property_uuid

on digital_pageviews (property_uuid);

create index ndx_publisher_uuid

on digital_pageviews (publisher_uuid);

create index ndx_visitor_uuid_page

on digital_pageviews (visitor_uuid);