diff --git a/app/controllers/site_pages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/site_pages_controller.rb
index adcb66b8e..91821abc7 100644
--- a/app/controllers/site_pages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/site_pages_controller.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class SitePagesController < ApplicationController
 
     def index
         pages = PageQuery.call(params,current_user)
+        @total_count = pages.size
         @pages = paginate(pages)
     end
 
diff --git a/app/views/site_pages/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/site_pages/index.json.jbuilder
index 40c014984..482a7c70c 100644
--- a/app/views/site_pages/index.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/site_pages/index.json.jbuilder
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-json.total_count @pages.total_count
+json.total_count @total_count
 json.pages @pages.each do |page|
     json.partial! 'info', locals: {page: page}
 end