diff --git a/backend/app/services/counts_defaults.rb b/backend/app/services/counts_defaults.rb
index b5e35fc..a29fe7b 100644
--- a/backend/app/services/counts_defaults.rb
+++ b/backend/app/services/counts_defaults.rb
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ class CountsDefaults
         'rows' => '', 'cols' => '', 'conditions' => '', 'tags' => '' } }
     details = detail_params(resource)
     if details
+      details = details.merge('sort' => 'resource_id:asc version_no:asc')
       language = Locale.find_by(code: locale)&.language_code || locale
       name = CountsResourceDefinition.name_key(language)
       aliases = CountsResourceDefinition.aliases_key(language)
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ class CountsDefaults
       entry[:definition] == params.fetch('definition', 'latest') &&
           entry[:mode] == params.fetch('mode', 'summary')
     end&.fetch(:params) || {}
-    if settings.key?('sort') && params.key?('rows')
+    if settings.key?('sort') && params.key?('rows') && params.fetch('mode', 'summary') == 'summary'
       actual = QueryState.axes(params['rows'])
       expected = QueryState.axes(settings.fetch('rows'))
       compatible = actual.is_a?(Array) && actual.first.is_a?(Hash) &&
diff --git a/backend/app/services/counts_table_query.rb b/backend/app/services/counts_table_query.rb
index c4f6744..bf48084 100644
--- a/backend/app/services/counts_table_query.rb
+++ b/backend/app/services/counts_table_query.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class CountsTableQuery
     @connection = @definition.model.connection
     @axes = CountsAxes.new(population)
     @page = Integer(params.fetch('page', '1'), 10)
-    @limit = Integer(params.fetch('limit', '20'), 10)
+    @limit = Integer(params.fetch('limit', '100'), 10)
     @mode = params.fetch('mode', 'summary')
     raise ArgumentError unless page.between?(1, 1_000_000) && limit.between?(1, 100)
     raise ArgumentError unless ['summary', 'details'].include?(mode)
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class CountsTableQuery
     query = population.scope.select(Arel.sql(
         "(#{ population.latest_sql }) AS counts_latest"))
     order = sort_sql { detail_expression(_1) }
-    query = query.order(Arel.sql((order + ['v.id DESC']).join(', ')))
+    query = query.order(Arel.sql((order + ['v.id ASC']).join(', ')))
         .limit(limit).offset((page - 1) * limit)
     rows = query.to_a
     if ['posts', 'tags'].include?(@definition.resource)
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsControls.tsx b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsControls.tsx
index d1728be..23cabb6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsControls.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsControls.tsx
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ const CountsControls = (
   const update = (key: string, value: string) => setDraft (previous => {
     const next = new URLSearchParams (previous)
     setCountState (next, key, value)
+    if (key === 'limit') next.delete ('page')
     if (next.toString () === previous.toString ()) return previous
     if (['rows', 'cols'].includes (key) && next.get ('sort') !== '') next.delete ('sort')
     if (key !== 'mode') return next
@@ -153,10 +154,13 @@ const CountsControls = (
       <legend className="sr-only">{label ('displaySettings')}</legend>
       <label className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 text-sm">
 	{label ('fields.limit')}
-	<input value={draft.get ('limit') ?? '20'}
+	<select value={draft.get ('limit') ?? '100'}
 	    aria-label={message ('fields.limit').text}
 	    className={inputClass (false, 'w-20 py-1')}
-	    onChange={event => update ('limit', event.target.value)}/>
+	    onChange={event => update ('limit', event.target.value)}>
+          {[20, 50, 100].map (count => <option key={count} value={count}>
+            {label ('shared:labels.resultsCount', { count })}</option>)}
+        </select>
       </label>
       <label className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 text-sm">
 	<input type="checkbox" checked={draft.get ('row_numbers') === '1'}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsResults.tsx b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsResults.tsx
index 5fdd6a2..793e3f0 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsResults.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsResults.tsx
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ const CountsResults = (
   const columns = selectedCountColumns (resource, params, definition)
   const rowNumbers = params.get ('row_numbers') === '1'
   const fields = fieldsForCounts (resource, definition)
-  const sorts = readCountSort (params.get ('sort') ?? 'created_at:desc')
+  const sorts = readCountSort (params.get ('sort') ?? 'resource_id:asc version_no:asc')
   const sort = (key: string, additive: boolean) =>
       update ('sort', writeCountSort (changeCountSort (sorts, key, additive)))
   const cell = (row: CountsVersion, column: CountColumn) => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsSortHeader.tsx b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsSortHeader.tsx
index ca420e3..e92d79b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsSortHeader.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsSortHeader.tsx
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
+import { useContext, useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
 
 import SortableItem from '@/components/common/SortableItem'
 import CountsResizeHandle from '@/components/counts/CountsResizeHandle'
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button'
 import { useUITranslation } from '@/lib/useUITranslation'
+import { CountsTableScope, useCountsTableLayout } from '@/lib/countsTableLayout'
 
 import type { CountSort } from '@/lib/counts'
 
@@ -19,6 +20,42 @@ const CountsSortHeader = (
         dragId?: string; totalKind?: string },
 ) => {
   const { message } = useUITranslation ('counts')
+  const family = useContext (CountsTableScope)
+  const layout = useCountsTableLayout ()
+  const heading = useRef<HTMLDivElement> (null)
+  useEffect (() => {
+    if (!resizable || colSpan != null && colSpan > 1) return
+    const node = heading.current
+    const text = node?.querySelector<HTMLElement> ('[data-counts-label]')
+    const button = text?.closest ('button')
+    if (node == null || text == null || button == null) return
+    const canvas = document.createElement ('canvas')
+    const context = canvas.getContext ('2d')
+    if (context == null) return
+    const measure = () => {
+      context.font = getComputedStyle (text).font
+      const padding = (element: Element) => {
+        const style = getComputedStyle (element)
+        return parseFloat (style.paddingLeft) + parseFloat (style.paddingRight)
+            + parseFloat (style.borderLeftWidth) + parseFloat (style.borderRightWidth)
+      }
+      const handles = Array.from (node.children).filter (child => child !== button)
+          .reduce ((sum, child) => sum + Math.max (
+              child.scrollWidth, child.getBoundingClientRect ().width), 0)
+      const resize = node.parentElement?.querySelector ('[data-counts-resize]')
+      const resizeWidth = resize?.getBoundingClientRect ().width ?? 0
+      const indicator = button.querySelector ('[data-counts-sort-indicator]')
+      const sortWidth = indicator?.getBoundingClientRect ().width ?? 0
+      const gap = parseFloat (getComputedStyle (button).columnGap) || 0
+      layout.fit (family, field, context.measureText (label.text).width
+          + handles + padding (button) + padding (node.parentElement!)
+          + sortWidth + gap + resizeWidth)
+    }
+    measure ()
+    let active = true
+    void document.fonts.ready.then (() => { if (active) measure () })
+    return () => { active = false }
+  }, [family, field, label.text, dragId, resizable, colSpan, layout])
   const press = useRef<{ x: number; y: number
       timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> } | null> (null)
   const suppressClick = useRef (false)
@@ -44,7 +81,7 @@ const CountsSortHeader = (
           data-counts-heading={label.text} rowSpan={rowSpan} colSpan={colSpan}
 	  className="relative overflow-hidden whitespace-nowrap px-1 py-1"
 	  aria-sort={(sorts.length > 1 && priority >= 0) ? 'other' : state}>
-	<div className="flex min-w-0 items-center">
+	<div ref={heading} className="flex min-w-0 items-center">
 	{shell?.handle}
 	<Button type="button" variant="ghost" size="sm"
 	    className="h-auto w-full max-w-full justify-start select-none px-1 py-0 pr-3"
@@ -92,9 +129,10 @@ const CountsSortHeader = (
 	      }
 	      change (field, event.ctrlKey || event.metaKey)
 	    }}>
-	  <span className="truncate" lang={label.language}>{label.text}</span>
-	  {priority >= 0 && <span aria-hidden>
-	    {direction === 'asc' ? '▲' : '▼'}{sorts.length > 1 && priority + 1}</span>}
+	  <span data-counts-label className="truncate" lang={label.language}>{label.text}</span>
+	  <span aria-hidden data-counts-sort-indicator className="inline-block w-10 shrink-0">
+	    {priority >= 0 && <>{direction === 'asc' ? '▲' : '▼'}
+              {sorts.length > 1 && priority + 1}</>}</span>
 	</Button>
 	</div>
 	{resizable && <CountsResizeHandle field={field} label={label}/>}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsTableLayout.tsx b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsTableLayout.tsx
index a2864ab..1a4dc08 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsTableLayout.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/counts/CountsTableLayout.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { useState } from 'react'
 
-import { CountsLayoutContext, defaultCountWidths, MAX_COUNT_WIDTH, MIN_COUNT_WIDTH }
+import { CountsLayoutContext, defaultCountWidths, MAX_COUNT_WIDTH, MIN_COUNT_WIDTH,
+         MAX_INITIAL_COUNT_WIDTH }
     from '@/lib/countsTableLayout'
 
 import type { ReactNode } from 'react'
@@ -8,8 +9,15 @@ import type { ReactNode } from 'react'
 
 const CountsTableLayout = ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => {
   const [widths, setWidths] = useState<Record<string, number>> ({ })
+  const [headings, setHeadings] = useState<Record<string, number>> ({ })
   const width = (family: string, key: string) =>
-      widths[`${family}/${key}`] ?? defaultCountWidths[key] ?? 160
+      widths[`${family}/${key}`]
+      ?? Math.max (defaultCountWidths[key] ?? 160, headings[`${family}/${key}`] ?? 0)
+  const fit = (family: string, key: string, value: number) => {
+    const next = Math.ceil (Math.min (MAX_INITIAL_COUNT_WIDTH, value))
+    setHeadings (previous => previous[`${family}/${key}`] === next ? previous
+        : { ...previous, [`${family}/${key}`]: next })
+  }
   const custom = (family: string, key: string) => widths[`${family}/${key}`] != null
   const resize = (family: string, key: string, value: number) => {
     const next = Math.round (Math.max (MIN_COUNT_WIDTH, Math.min (MAX_COUNT_WIDTH, value)))
@@ -17,7 +25,7 @@ const CountsTableLayout = ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => {
 	: { ...previous, [`${family}/${key}`]: next })
   }
   return (
-      <CountsLayoutContext.Provider value={{ width, custom, resize }}>
+      <CountsLayoutContext.Provider value={{ width, custom, resize, fit }}>
 	{children}
       </CountsLayoutContext.Provider>)
 }
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/counts/countsTable.css b/frontend/src/components/counts/countsTable.css
index 1ecd66d..9ac5b96 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/counts/countsTable.css
+++ b/frontend/src/components/counts/countsTable.css
@@ -74,7 +74,12 @@
 }
 
 .counts-grid > tbody > tr > td:has(> .counts-nested) {
-  padding: 0;
+  padding: 8px 12px;
+}
+
+.counts-nested .counts-grid > thead > tr > th,
+.counts-nested .counts-grid > tbody > tr > td {
+  padding: 8px 12px;
 }
 
 .counts-nested {
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/counts.ts b/frontend/src/lib/counts.ts
index 905d086..3ecbb79 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/counts.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/counts.ts
@@ -262,6 +262,17 @@ export const selectedCountChildren = (
 ): Set<string> => {
   const selected = new Set (params.has ('children') ? params.get ('children')!.split (' ')
       : ['tags.name', 'parents.id', 'aliases.name', 'members.tagId'])
+  if (!params.has ('children') && fields != null)
+  {
+    const language = localeLanguage (currentViewingLocale ())
+    const name = fields.find (field => field.key === 'tags')?.children?.find (field =>
+        !field.multipleValues && field.nameLocale?.languageCode === language)
+    if (name != null)
+    {
+      selected.delete ('tags.name')
+      selected.add (`tags.${name.key}`)
+    }
+  }
   if (fields != null)
   {
     const valid = new Set (countChildPaths (fields).filter (path => path.includes ('.')))
@@ -357,6 +368,7 @@ export const normaliseCountsParams = (
     definition?: CountsDefinition,
 ): URLSearchParams => {
   const params = new URLSearchParams (source)
+  if (!params.has ('limit')) params.set ('limit', '100')
   const nameScope = params.get ('name_scope')
   if (definition?.conditionAliases != null && (nameScope == null || nameScope === 'locale'))
   {
@@ -448,9 +460,18 @@ export const normaliseCountsParams = (
         .filter (key => key !== 'original_created_at').join (' '))
   const defaults = definition?.defaults?.find (entry =>
       entry.definition === params.get ('definition') && entry.mode === params.get ('mode'))
+  if (params.get ('mode') === 'details' && !params.has ('sort'))
+    params.set ('sort', 'resource_id:asc version_no:asc')
   for (const { key, value } of defaults?.params ?? [])
   {
     if (params.has (key)) continue
+    if (key === 'children' && resource === 'posts' && params.get ('mode') === 'details')
+    {
+      const name = definition?.nameColumns?.find (field => !field.multipleValues
+          && field.nameLocale?.languageCode === localeLanguage (currentViewingLocale ()))
+      params.set (key, name == null ? value : `tags.${name.key} parents.id`)
+      continue
+    }
     if (key === 'sort')
     {
       const expected = defaults?.params.find (entry => entry.key === 'rows')?.value
@@ -541,7 +562,7 @@ export const countsExportPayload = (
   const payload = new URLSearchParams (params)
   if (!payload.has ('children'))
   {
-    const selected = selectedCountChildren (params)
+    const selected = selectedCountChildren (params, fieldsForCounts (resource, definition))
     payload.set ('children', countChildPaths (fieldsForCounts (resource, definition))
 	.filter (path => selected.has (path)).join (' '))
   }
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/countsTableLayout.ts b/frontend/src/lib/countsTableLayout.ts
index 1120353..ec3fabd 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/countsTableLayout.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/countsTableLayout.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { createContext, useContext } from 'react'
 
 export const MIN_COUNT_WIDTH = 64
 export const MAX_COUNT_WIDTH = 2000
+export const MAX_INITIAL_COUNT_WIDTH = 640
 
 export const defaultCountWidths: Record<string, number> = {
     row_number: 72, thumbnail: 88, resource_id: 88, version_no: 88, latest: 104,
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ export const defaultCountWidths: Record<string, number> = {
 type Layout = {
     width: (family: string, key: string) => number
     custom: (family: string, key: string) => boolean
+    fit: (family: string, key: string, width: number) => void
     resize: (family: string, key: string, width: number) => void }
 export const CountsLayoutContext = createContext<Layout | null> (null)
 export const CountsTableScope = createContext ('')