Answers.Body: <p><code>.count</code> will return the total results for a particular paginated page (in your case, it should be the same as the <code>resultsLimit</code> variable).</p>
  
  <p><code>.total</code> will return the number of results in the entire results object regardless of pagination.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I found out that the functions count and total on the elementCriteriaModel show different results:</p>
  
  <p>The following examples gave different results. <code>paginate.total</code> was the same as <code>total</code>, but not correct. Only count showed me the correct answer.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% paginate craft.entries(filterParams).section('object').order('title asc').limit(resultsLimit) as results %}
  
  Total results:{{ paginate.total }}
  
  {% set total =  craft.entries(filterParams).section('object').order('title asc').total() %}
  {% set count =  craft.entries(filterParams).section('object').order('title asc').count() %}
  </code></pre>
  
Tags: <entries><elementcriteriamodel>
Title: What's the difference between total function and count function?
ThreadText: # What's the difference between total function and count function?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-14)
  
  I found out that the functions count and total on the elementCriteriaModel show different results:
  
  The following examples gave different results. `paginate.total` was the same as `total`, but not correct. Only count showed me the correct answer.
  
  ```
  {% paginate craft.entries(filterParams).section('object').order('title asc').limit(resultsLimit) as results %}
  
  Total results:{{ paginate.total }}
  
  {% set total =  craft.entries(filterParams).section('object').order('title asc').total() %}
  {% set count =  craft.entries(filterParams).section('object').order('title asc').count() %}
  
  ```
  
  **Tags:** entries, elementcriteriamodel
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-14. Score: 3
  
  `.count` will return the total results for a particular paginated page (in your case, it should be the same as the `resultsLimit` variable).
  
  `.total` will return the number of results in the entire results object regardless of pagination.
  
  
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