# Hits.hits array empty even thought total =1
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-hits-array-empty-even-thought-total-1/19930
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 23, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-hits-array-empty-even-thought-total-1/19930 "2014-09-23T22:51:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Stephen\_Ward](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stephen_Ward)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-hits-array-empty-even-thought-total-1/19930/1 "2014-09-23T22:51:13Z")
I have a node app using the javascript api.
even the the query returns a hit. I get the following response
"hits": {
```
"total": 1,
"max_score": 14.627042,
"hits": []
}
```
how can the hits array be empty when the total shows 1.. If I run the query
in sense I get the expected result.
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### Author:  [@Stephen\_Ward](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stephen_Ward)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-hits-array-empty-even-thought-total-1/19930/2 "2014-09-24T18:20:44Z")
Duh . my page started at 1 not 0.
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 3:51:14 PM UTC-7, Stephen Ward wrote:
> I have a node app using the javascript api.
>
> even the the query returns a hit. I get the following response
>
> "hits": {
>
> ```
> "total": 1,
>
> "max_score": 14.627042,
>
> "hits": []
>
> }
>
> ```
>
> how can the hits array be empty when the total shows 1.. If I run the
> query in sense I get the expected result.
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### Author:  [@Arpit\_Agarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arpit_Agarwal)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-hits-array-empty-even-thought-total-1/19930/3 "2016-05-21T20:42:50Z")
By default, elasticsearch starts showing its Query results from pageNum as 0 and the search query we define generally start from pageNum as 1. Ensure that if you are setting the pageNum, it is set to 0 in case you have the resultset within the pageSize limit.
I was facing the same issue where I could see total\_hits as 1 with empty array being returned. I found that I was setting the default pageNum to 1 ,however elasticsearch starts it from 0 and hence was returning the second page when queried with pageNum as 1
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hits-hits-array-empty-even-thought-total-1/19930/4 "2017-07-05T22:49:57Z")