diff --git a/src/index.html b/src/index.html
index 78bc567..bd11825 100644
--- a/src/index.html
+++ b/src/index.html
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
       show-catalog-nb-tags="${SHOW_CATALOG_NB_TAGS}"
       history-custom-labels="${HISTORY_CUSTOM_LABELS}"
       use-control-cache-header="${USE_CONTROL_CACHE_HEADER}"
-      taglist-order="${TAGLIST_ORDER}
+      taglist-order="${TAGLIST_ORDER}"
       theme="${THEME}"
       theme-primary-text="${THEME_PRIMARY_TEXT}"
       theme-neutral-text="${THEME_NEUTRAL_TEXT}"
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
       show-catalog-nb-tags="true"
       history-custom-labels="first_custom_labels,second_custom_labels"
       use-control-cache-header="false"
-      taglist-order="alpha-asc;num-desc"
+      taglist-order=""
       theme="auto"
       theme-primary-text=""
       theme-neutral-text=""
diff --git a/src/scripts/taglist-order.js b/src/scripts/taglist-order.js
index 2d83de9..8b9f7df 100644
--- a/src/scripts/taglist-order.js
+++ b/src/scripts/taglist-order.js
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export const taglistOrderVariants = (taglistOrder) => {
       return `${taglistOrder};${taglistOrder.startsWith('num') ? 'alpha' : 'num'}-asc`;
     default:
       if (!taglistOrder) {
-        return 'num-asc;alpha-asc';
+        return 'alpha-asc;num-desc';
       } else if (TAGLIST_ORDER_REGEX.test(taglistOrder)) {
         return taglistOrder;
       }
diff --git a/test/taglist-order.test.js b/test/taglist-order.test.js
index 3aaf8a4..12f42ed 100644
--- a/test/taglist-order.test.js
+++ b/test/taglist-order.test.js
@@ -15,9 +15,14 @@ describe('utils tests', () => {
       expected.forEach((e) => assert.deepEqual(taglistOrderVariants(e), e));
     });
 
+    it('should return correct default order', () => {
+      const expected = 'alpha-asc;num-desc';
+      [undefined, ''].forEach((e) => assert.deepEqual(taglistOrderVariants(e), expected));
+    });
+
     it('should return correct variant of `num-asc;alpha-asc`', () => {
       const expected = 'num-asc;alpha-asc';
-      [undefined, '', 'asc', 'num-asc'].forEach((e) => assert.deepEqual(taglistOrderVariants(e), expected));
+      ['asc', 'num-asc'].forEach((e) => assert.deepEqual(taglistOrderVariants(e), expected));
     });
 
     it('should return correct variant of `alpha-desc;num-desc`', () => {
@@ -39,7 +44,7 @@ describe('utils tests', () => {
 
   describe('taglistOrderParser', () => {
     it('should have default configuration when empty or undefined', () => {
-      const expected = { numAsc: true, alphaAsc: true, numFirst: true };
+      const expected = { numAsc: false, alphaAsc: true, numFirst: false };
       assert.deepEqual(taglistOrderParser(), expected);
       assert.deepEqual(taglistOrderParser(''), expected);
     });