# Taxonomy:Count

This tag is a clone of the [taxonomy tag](/tags/taxonomy.md) but with one big difference: it only returns the total number of terms that match your set of filters.


## Overview

This tag's only purpose is to fetch the number of the terms in a taxonomy that match your set of filtering parameters without the need for a tag pair/loop.

## Example

```
There are {{ taxonomy:count in="tags" }} tags in this site.
```

```html
There are 6201 tags in this site.
```

You could do the same thing inside a regular taxonomy tag by aliasing the results to a single variable and using the [count modifier](/modifiers/count.md).

```
{{ taxonomy:tags as="terms" }}
There are {{ terms | count }} tags in this site.
{{ /taxonomy:tags }}
```