diff --git a/ajapaik/ajapaik/views.py b/ajapaik/ajapaik/views.py
index fc1a45de0..809781526 100644
--- a/ajapaik/ajapaik/views.py
+++ b/ajapaik/ajapaik/views.py
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ def _get_filtered_data_for_frontpage(request, album_id=None, page_override=None)
         # In some cases it is faster to get number of photos before we annotate new columns to it
         albumsize_before_sorting = 0
         if not album:
-            albumsize_before_sorting = Photo.objects.filter(pk__in=photos).cached_count(q)
+            albumsize_before_sorting = Photo.objects.filter(pk__in=photos).cached_count(str(filter_form.cleaned_data))
 
         # SORTING BELOW THIS LINE