There is currently no default search order set in the Contentful Content APIs. When a collection is requested, the order in which entities are returned is unpredictable. This has been causing an issue where sometimes pagination of the unpredictably ordered list results in duplicated or missing entities in the response.

On January 13, 2020, we will be setting a default order for requests to the Contentful APIs. This default ordering will be:

If you are currently using ordering in your queries using the order query parameter then you will be unaffected by this change.

If you rely on the default ordering in our API responses and do not use the order query parameter, you may be affected by the change. We encourage you to implement the order parameter or ensure you are ready for the change in default result set ordering.