Why did my Crustdata company search return a different number of companies?
The Crustdata help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: Companies that were deleted or no longer match your filters are left out while you page through, so a page can come back with fewer companies.
What causes it?
Companies that were deleted or no longer match your filters are left out while you page through, so a page can come back with fewer companies.
In the Crustdata help:
Deleted companies or records that no longer satisfy filters are omitted and still consume their original positions.
Company Search reference, read 2026-11-12.A ranked search can only page through a set number of candidates, so a very broad search stops before every match is listed.
In the Crustdata help:
Ranked search returns up to 100 results per page and supports cursors across at most 1,000 candidate positions per search.
Company Search reference, read 2026-11-12.Each page reads the company records fresh, so a record that changed while you paged can drop out or look different.
In the Crustdata help:
Candidate order is retained, but company records are read again for each page.
Company Search reference, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
For a ranked company search, count the companies you actually received rather than looking for a total, since a ranked search does not report one; a filter-only search can report its matching count.
In the Crustdata help:
`total_count` is always `null`; it does not report the candidate ceiling or the total matching population.
Company Search reference, read 2026-11-12.Keep paging until there is no next cursor before comparing counts, since a short page does not mean the end.
In the Crustdata help:
Continue until `next_cursor` is `null`, which means you have reached the last page.
Company Search reference, read 2026-11-12.
How does Crustdata work with Feder?
- Connect Crustdata to Feder and it joins your Interest apps.
- When you connect Crustdata, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in Crustdata, one of your Interest apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Crustdata.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why did my Crustdata credit use jump when I ran the same lookups?Crustdata
- Why did Crustdata return fewer people than I expected?Crustdata
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Crustdata help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.