diff --git a/src/services/explorer.ts b/src/services/explorer.ts
index 8622ef6..4efb288 100644
--- a/src/services/explorer.ts
+++ b/src/services/explorer.ts
@@ -34,8 +34,17 @@ export interface ExplorerQuery {
   page: number
 }
 
-/** How many rows a page of the explorer holds. */
-export const PAGE_SIZE = 50
+/**
+ * How many rows a page of the explorer holds.
+ *
+ * Twenty, not fifty: at 34–38px a row, twenty is about what a desktop viewport
+ * shows without scrolling, so Volgende replaces the scrollbar instead of coming
+ * after it. It also costs the client-side type filter less — that one narrows
+ * the page rather than the query, and a smaller page is a smaller thing to
+ * narrow, so `filterByType` leans harder on the caveat the popover already
+ * states.
+ */
+export const PAGE_SIZE = 20
 
 export function emptyQuery(): ExplorerQuery {
   return { q: '', status: [], type: [], mine: null, sort: null, order: 'desc', page: 1 }
diff --git a/src/views/RecoveryListView.vue b/src/views/RecoveryListView.vue
index 5074d0c..c15eb9e 100644
--- a/src/views/RecoveryListView.vue
+++ b/src/views/RecoveryListView.vue
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ import { useRowKeyboard } from '@/services/useRowKeyboard'
  */
 const router = useRouter()
 
-const PAGE_SIZE = 50
+/** Same page as the explorer — see `PAGE_SIZE` in `services/explorer.ts`. */
+const PAGE_SIZE = 20
 
 const rows: Ref<IRecovery[]> = ref([])
 const loading = ref(true)