diff --git a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
index 8bc2fb476..71e409dde 100644
--- a/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/projects_controller.rb
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ class ProjectsController < ApplicationController
     category_id = params[:category_id]
     @total_count =
       if category_id.blank?
-        ps = ProjectStatistic.first
-        ps.common_projects_count + ps.mirror_projects_count unless ps.blank?
+        # ps = ProjectStatistic.first
+        # ps.common_projects_count + ps.mirror_projects_count unless ps.blank?
+        @projects.total_count
       else
         cate = ProjectCategory.find_by(id: category_id)
         cate&.projects_count || 0
diff --git a/app/queries/projects/list_query.rb b/app/queries/projects/list_query.rb
index b46ceb381..ec1dcda3c 100644
--- a/app/queries/projects/list_query.rb
+++ b/app/queries/projects/list_query.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ class Projects::ListQuery < ApplicationQuery
     sort = params[:sort_by] || "updated_on"
     sort_direction = params[:sort_direction] || "desc"
 
-    collection = optimize_sorting(collection, sort) if params[:category_id].present?
+    # collection = optimize_sorting(collection, sort) if params[:category_id].present?
     custom_sort(collection, sort, sort_direction)
 
     # scope = scope.reorder("projects.#{sort} #{sort_direction}")
diff --git a/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder
index 874f60974..31d0db9c5 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/projects/index.json.jbuilder
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-json.total_count @projects.total_count
+json.total_count @total_count
 json.projects @projects do |project|
   # json.partial! "/projects/project_detail", project: project
   json.id project.id
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ json.projects @projects do |project|
       project_educoder = project.project_educoder
       json.name project_educoder&.owner
       json.login project_educoder&.repo_name.split('/')[0]
-      json.image_url render_educoder_avatar_url(project.project_educoder)
+      # json.image_url render_educoder_avatar_url(project.project_educoder)
     else
       user = project.owner
       json.type user.type